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    • Ex Populo: The Call of Duty -- 1422 words
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Archive for the 'ex populo' Category

Post XXXI: Ex Populo 11

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 2nd, 2007

I’m pleased to report that the eleventh episode of Ex Populo, “Maybe We Could Go Back to Then, Part Two,” was completed in the first draft this evening. It has been some time since I was able to concentrate on the characters from the Ex Populo series, that it felt very good to be [...]

Post XXVII: Upgrade to 2.2.1

Posted by R. A. Michaels on June 25th, 2007

As the subject say, the blog is now running on version 2.2.1 of the Wordpress software.
Some news will be forthcoming in the next few weeks regarding Knight Commander and Ex Populus.
- RAM

Post XXV: Ex Populus draft completed

Posted by R. A. Michaels on February 3rd, 2007

I’m pleased to announce that with the completion of the fifth episode rewrite, looks like the first draft of the Ex Populus collection is completed and off to editing for review and revising. Depending on how long it will take to go through nearly one hundred thousand words, my guess is that we’ll go [...]

Post XXIV: News on Ex Populus

Posted by R. A. Michaels on January 26th, 2007

The first bit of good news I have is that Ex Populus will be published later this year, with the first nine episodes inside, chronicalling the first year or so of President Nunez’ administration.  It will be published under my own private press, Hope Station Publishing, and will show up on Amazon and Barnes & [...]

Post XV: December Plans

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 7th, 2006

What am I intending to accomplish in December?

Finish Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque: Ready Five
Start/Finish Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque: The Ganymede Conference
Finish Knight Commander’s 6th Revision and hope that there isn’t a 7th.
Commission a cover for Ex Populus‘ release on lulu.com.

Hopefully, this will all get done within the next three weeks, but I’m not [...]

Post XI: Ready Five

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 2nd, 2006

Ready Five is turning out to be something of an interesting episode for Ex Populus. Initially, the story was primarily going to be about how Amy needed to select her new deputy, but in the planning stages, it turns out that the underlying backdrop will be a war between two colonies who’re fighting to [...]

Post IX: Changes to Ex Populus

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 1st, 2006

As I had written in a previous post, I was intent upon making some changes to the story structure for Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque. Some of the changes included the addition of a second ’season’ of episodes written after the 2134 election between the sitting president, Carter Nunez, and the vice-chairperson of the [...]

Post II: Ex Populus

Posted by R. A. Michaels on August 17th, 2006

I’ve been working pretty hard these past few months after taking such a long break from writing right after winning National Novel Writing Month. I think writing so much in such a short amount of time might have sucked all the creativity right out of my brain and I needed some time to recharge. [...]