Status Report for July, 2024
Aug. 1st, 2024 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftearsOh hai, I am a year older! (as of the 18th)
My birthday dinner was the usual, duck from Le Fontaine, served on a bed of wild rice with mixed vegetables, with tiramisu for dessert. Yum!
I outlined not one, but two possible standalone novels. These are:
Intruder - first contact at 0.05 times the speed of light. The two great factions of humanity, locked in a cold war with one another, discover an alien ship crossing the solar system at insane speed. Each launches a mission to attempt to rendezvous with the ship before the other one can. But the first mission goes silent days after it begins its operations. Now, months later, the second mission is about to close in on the Intruder. Are the aliens hostile? What happened to the first crew? And why didn't the Intruder stop in the solar system?
Re: Fleet Academy - a disgruntled engineer comes across a mysterious artifact on a planetary expedition that offers her the chance to redo her life. She accepts and finds herself back in her academy days. Score! But her captain, the very reason she's doing this, has gone back in time after her, and is determined to bring her back before the timeline is changed beyond repair. Now the two of them must deal with classmates, their first training cruise, and each other. Is a happy life so much to ask for?
Intruder is off to review by a friend of mine who's much better with things physics than I am, since it's a hard-ish science fiction story, set in a slower-than-light universe. He's already taken one look at things and I've made changes based on his suggestion, but it may be a while before he gets to a second look, so I pressed on with the second outline.
Thanks toladyrowyn who read over Re: Fleet Academy and gave me some great suggestions, I broke ground on it a few weeks ago, and presently have one and a half chapters written: 10,877 words. I have hopes that it will be a moderately thick novel, around 120k words, but we'll see how that goes.
Interestingly, it took 18 days to write, then revise the outline for Intruder... 5 and change for Re: Fleet Academy's outline. We'll see how that goes.
In other mews... CentOS 7, which is what my old remotely-hosted Linux server is using (I use it for mail and hosting an RP MUCK) has reached end of life, which I found out when the updates stopped running because they'd turned off that service. So I did some digging and figured out I could migrate it to Alma Linux using ELevate. There was a very nervous-making hour and change while it did the reboot thing, but it came back up successfully. Whew! So that's one headache out of the way.
Now what am I gonna do about Windows 10 reaching end of life next year and my machine being too old, apparently, for Windows 11... Eh, that's next-year-Tufty's problem.
My birthday dinner was the usual, duck from Le Fontaine, served on a bed of wild rice with mixed vegetables, with tiramisu for dessert. Yum!
I outlined not one, but two possible standalone novels. These are:
Intruder - first contact at 0.05 times the speed of light. The two great factions of humanity, locked in a cold war with one another, discover an alien ship crossing the solar system at insane speed. Each launches a mission to attempt to rendezvous with the ship before the other one can. But the first mission goes silent days after it begins its operations. Now, months later, the second mission is about to close in on the Intruder. Are the aliens hostile? What happened to the first crew? And why didn't the Intruder stop in the solar system?
Re: Fleet Academy - a disgruntled engineer comes across a mysterious artifact on a planetary expedition that offers her the chance to redo her life. She accepts and finds herself back in her academy days. Score! But her captain, the very reason she's doing this, has gone back in time after her, and is determined to bring her back before the timeline is changed beyond repair. Now the two of them must deal with classmates, their first training cruise, and each other. Is a happy life so much to ask for?
Intruder is off to review by a friend of mine who's much better with things physics than I am, since it's a hard-ish science fiction story, set in a slower-than-light universe. He's already taken one look at things and I've made changes based on his suggestion, but it may be a while before he gets to a second look, so I pressed on with the second outline.
Thanks to
ladyrowyn who read over Re: Fleet Academy and gave me some great suggestions, I broke ground on it a few weeks ago, and presently have one and a half chapters written: 10,877 words. I have hopes that it will be a moderately thick novel, around 120k words, but we'll see how that goes.Interestingly, it took 18 days to write, then revise the outline for Intruder... 5 and change for Re: Fleet Academy's outline. We'll see how that goes.
In other mews... CentOS 7, which is what my old remotely-hosted Linux server is using (I use it for mail and hosting an RP MUCK) has reached end of life, which I found out when the updates stopped running because they'd turned off that service. So I did some digging and figured out I could migrate it to Alma Linux using ELevate. There was a very nervous-making hour and change while it did the reboot thing, but it came back up successfully. Whew! So that's one headache out of the way.
Now what am I gonna do about Windows 10 reaching end of life next year and my machine being too old, apparently, for Windows 11... Eh, that's next-year-Tufty's problem.
