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    • Ex Populo: The Call of Duty -- 1422 words
    • Ex Populo: Maybe We Could Go Back to Then, Part Two -- 2779 words
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    • Ex Populo: Maybe We Could Go Back to Then, Part Two -- 700 words
    • Ex Populo: Maybe We Could Go Back to Then, Part Two -- 3200 words
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    • Ex Populo: Maybe We Could Go Back to Then, Part Two -- 1600 words
    • Ex Populo: From the People, Liberty and Prosperity... -- 4106 words
    • Ex Populo: From the People, Liberty and Prosperity... -- 2475 words
    • Ex Populo: From the People, Liberty and Prosperity... -- 1674 words

Archive for the 'knight' Category

Post XXIX: NaNoWriMo 2007

Posted by R. A. Michaels on November 1st, 2007

I had originally not intended to participate in this year’s National Novel Writing Month, but one of my inner voices reminded me that going for the third win would help me in putting more of Mejen Knight’s story on paper.  So, I am throwing out the awful first draft of Knight Commissioned I had rotting [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Post XIII: The Origin of Knight

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 4th, 2006

The deconstruction of a character is fun when you’re reading a story.  Maybe I’m in the minority, but I enjoy trying to see some of the granules of information writers use to put together a character.  I think the little things about them present a depth to them that some writers might otherwise ignore.  I’m [...]

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