November 2020

So after a hiatus to rebuild a backlog and change the dialogue format, I’m back to releasing chapters.

I’m looking at bringing in remark commenting, I’ll run them on a Lightsail server. It will be as small as possible to reduce my costs. I don’t want the comments to load by default, as I’m trying to keep the site loading as fast and small as possible.

I’m putting off comments for now, and spending the time on getting a second series started. The chapter are shorter than the slow life series, so I might be able to get back to two chapters a day occasionally. It’s got 150+ chapters, so not as many as the 400-ish of slow life as well. Plan is to get the first 11 chapters done, then get comments working, then release the first 11 chapters. Slow life is higher priority, so it gets editing/reviewing priority.

Ok, I think I’ll get to a full week of future chapters waiting in the middle of this month. November 13-15 lost their chapters so I could deal with some issues at work and get on a better schedule. The goal is to get a larger backlog that includes both proofed and drafted chapters, so a day or two that I can’t work doesn’t mean I have to skip a day.

I got tired of writing drafts, so I sat down and reworked the fonts to give nine different fonts. Also, changing fonts doesn’t change the nav anymore.

So each week, I should have 3 weeks in progress, one week is getting released, one week gets reviewed on Wednesday or Thursday, one week is being actively drafted. So I could be drafting a chapter two full weeks before before it goes out. That sounds like a better pipeline than edit 1 day before and review the morning before it goes out.

Nov 20-26: So, I finally got to 69-72, the chapters where nothing interesting happens. These were the chapters that made me start this site, they were so boring and were only coming out once a week. Augh! I’ll struggle through with some time off from work.

At the end of the month, a new release process begins, the third iteration. Now it’s on a VM instead of my desktop.