Archive for August, 2008

So, about that Warp Factory

Posted in Warp Factory on August 31, 2008 by almcdonald

So what happens when you spend a week editing and priming your new lovely piece of art?

You upload the wrong version of the PDF.

It’s riddled with glitches. Page Breaks didn’t work (thanks Scrivener, and whilst I’m at it thanks OS X for having an awful dictionary) and there’s formatting and line spacing issues that ultimately rendered the document a hopeless reading experience.

Shame. Damn shame. Thanks go out to Roy for picking it out.

There is a new version of the document online. I added the correct page breaks, reformatting the section breaks (they didn’t break up the scenes enough in my mind) and reduced the font size from 12 to 10. I’ve also touched the typos and removed some duplicate text. It looks a much better document.

Warp Factory is my largest piece of work, and I’m learning that the larger a piece is, the more work is required at the business end of creating a final outputted piece of work. A learning experience indeed.

Warp Factory now available

Posted in Warp Factory on August 19, 2008 by almcdonald

The completed Warp Factory is now up on my website. It’s – um – a little more than the 8 thousand word count I alluded to previously. Shall we say 15 thousand instead?

Warp Factory

Posted in Warp Factory on August 13, 2008 by almcdonald

…is completed.

coming very soon here

Teaser for Warp Factory

Posted in Warp Factory on August 2, 2008 by almcdonald

Warp Factory is now in the final stages of editing, and will soon be available on the web site. After a period of time where I have nagged enough people to read the story I will probably take the story down, do another edit and then put it out to sell…

In the meantime I’m putting up a few short teaser paragraphs from the novella. The final story runs around 8 thousand words.

Link is here