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I haven’t finished a story in a couple of years.
I found a story that was about half written. The first version I found was from 2004. It was one where I had no idea how to end it. The story’s direction obviously wouldn’t work, so I dropped it around 2011 according to the date on the file. There are a bunch of ideas in a file from 2017, but they involved a lot of silly action and escape scenes.
I started writing at the end of the story, adding romance, and the ideas started to click. It wound up being a far future cyberpunk love story, which I am better at than action with guns and complicated plots.
I went back to the beginning and started foreshadowing the ending, and getting rid of some of the stupid things that I had added along the way.
The name of the story is “The Short Run,” but the story might be better called “The Long Run,” from the John Maynard Keynes quote: “In the long run we are all dead”.
Now I have to wait on it and then reread it so that I can find any stupid errors. The story is about 4,000 words and I will be sending it out to some pro sites later this week. There is no chance that the story will sell. Pro sites get more than 2,000 subs per month, and it is hard to get by the first round of slush. (I am convinced that slush readers think that SF is something like the Marvel Universe movies, either that or Star Wars.)
This story rightly belongs in the Error Message Eyes anthology, but it does involve space travel, so I’ll be putting it in the hard sf book that I am working on.

It’s been about two weeks since I put the Honey Supers on my hives. I opened up the hives to check and there is no honey, yet. I do have honeydew, which is watery honey nectar that may make it to honey eventually. The honeydew means that the bees are working and that if they buzz their wings over it and reduce the moisture content I will have honey.
While checking the bees, I noticed some bees going in and out of a box that I had set aside. I thought that the hive had died. I popped the top, and it was full of bees. I have a free hive. I will have to put a honey super on it to see if it makes me any money.

I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to publish Error Message Eyes Release 2.0.

I am not able to concentrate well enough to be sure things are right. Amazon is reviewing things now. They don’t review much other than to make sure that I am not doing anything illegal.

I find that the act of correction causes new errors, sometimes many new errors. Several times, I pressed CTRL-F in order to find something, but I missed the CTRL key and wound up inserting an F and a search string into the text. I hope that I caught all of these.

With luck I can make an announcement tomorrow. I wanted to do it today, but many things got in the way that were far more important.

Wish me luck.

I can’t believe the number of errors that Shaun has found. One or two (out of hundreds) I’ve either not changed, or else changed in a way different from his suggestions. Technically, I could launch tomorrow. I want to launch on a Thursday to take advantage of the weekday and weekend potential readers, but I will need a day to apply the corrections and order the proof copy. It looks like the book will launch on the 16th.
I started trying to edit the stories myself, starting at the end and working my way back. Now I am nervous because it has become obvious that most of my mistakes are made in the revision process. I will now go through and check again (introducing even more errors.)

I have finished installing MacOs X under Virtual Box. In previous posts, I talked about upgrading my PC with this in mind. I used the following tutorial: https://www.makeuseo … -10-virtual-machine/
The only issue that I have is that the mouse is not responsive and jerks around as I try to select something. This may not work out as a development machine as I wanted.