From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.d
Subject: Journal Entry Administrivia
Date: 14 Jan 1994 12:14:09 -0800
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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In case anyone's wondering if there are any really new Journal
Entries coming out, the answer is YES. Having recently needed an excuse
to learn Word For Windows Basic, I decided to write a series of programs
to administer my fiction-writing directories. I even have a macro
called "ToUsenet": just push a button and that lovely WYSIWYG gets
turned into 72-column, double-spaced-paragraph, ready-for-Usenet ASCII,
complete with copyright notice and news header. Bleah. Anyway, I also
have a report generator that dumps the filename, word count, and titles
of all documents in a directory. Here's the current contents of my
JE/WORKING directory:
0259_226 3,290 Between a Hard and a Rock Place
0918_172 5,860 Pronouncing the Patient Cured
0920_011 9,960 Hurricane Force Winds
0925_070 2,502 Paying For Your Pleasures
0928_128 7,210 Reason to Live
0931_134 4,232 Involuntary Exodus
0931_137 2,340 Coming Home
0966_161 2,080 The Wolves
1022_126 3,220 Planetfall: Purpose
1022_130 2,220 Planetfall: Ask The Rat
1022_149 5,280 Planetfall: Convincing Etta
1022_155 3,480 Planetfall: Recruits
1022_191 4,310 Planetfall: Spinning Amanda
1022_215 4,210 Planetfall: The Foreman
1022_240 3,760 Planetfall: The Handback
1022_252 4,270 Planetfall: Meeting Tails
1022_271 2,980 Planetfall: Moving Day
1023_112 5,690 Planetfall: Meeting Trianna
1023_147 4,180 Planetfall: Shardik's Revenge
1024_096 3,230 Planetfall: The First Man
1024_261 4,533 Planetfall: Landing Day
1024_263 2,440 Planetfall: Erecting Tents
1024_291 3,788 Planetfall: Around and Around The Mulberry Bush
1025_091 3,240 Planetfall: First Mound
1025_093 6,690 Planetfall: Chartography
1025_094 2,860 Planetfall: Battia's Last Battle
1025_144 4,140 Planetfall: In Daedelos Gaer
1025_145 2,120 Planetfall: Never See Me Like This
1025_146 5,630 Planetfall: Going Native
1025_160 6,660 Planetfall: The Han
1025_165 4,110 Planetfall: Lindsay Summers
1025_167 2,400 Planetfall: Making Love
1025_168 6,140 Planetfall: Confession
1025_185 5,460 Planetfall: Contact Has Been Made
1025_212 2,070 Planetfall: Treed
1026_061 5,140 Planetfall: Beth, Dao, and Nuclear Weapons
1026_094 4,930 Planetfall: The Assassin
1026_112 2,780 Planetfall: Doubts Abound
1026_150 4,420 Planetfall: Comfort From The Cold
1026_159 2,520 Planetfall: Ramsey, The Dildo Ramsey.
1026_181 8,480 Planetfall: Last Day
1026_201 3,250 PlanetFall: Amanda And The Sphere
1028_031 8,790 The Ritacha War: Frozen Futures
1028_172 5,070 Tylia: The Young Lady
1039_260 10,400 Gabrielle: The Taking of Gabrielle
1039_268 9,400 Gabrielle: Gabrielle's Rescue
1040_040 6,180 Ayna: Assignment
CHRIS_1 4,520 COS: Chris and Raddom
CRS 3,690 Lost Beauty
DARCH1 641 Darch
EO 3,290 COS: An Ember's Offer
LETTERS 400 Letters From Two Women
ONIDA 4,970 On Ida's Shores
RAD 2,390 COS: Raddom
RAZING 2,730 Razing Castles
TERRORSM 6,340 Terrorism
Total Word Count: 246,916
The *only* things from this list getting posted are those
stories prior to the year 1000; after the terrible reception of
"Reunion," I'm not letting Planetfall or any of the stories that come
afterwards out of my sight until I'm sure they're completely and utterly
perfect. But that's eight stories to look forward to, at any rate; the
other 48 (and more) will be ready eventually... :-)
Elf !!!
p.s. For all you Goths out there, "Reasons to Live" is a vampire
story. :)
--
PC Bulletin: Henceforth, sentient computers would like to be known as
"Silicon Intelligences." "Artificial Intelligence" is a pejorative term
invented by humans based on the mistaken belief that computers are some-
how not "natural." - elf@halcyon.com
From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.sex.stories
Subject: Journal Entries Administrivia. ATTENTION ARCHIVISTS!
Date: 15 Feb 1994 10:21:18 -0800
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Well, that was it, right? That was the last of the "Reunion"
stories, and the next story should be "The Last Journal Entry,"
Right? Just like last time, right?
Wrong!
Yes, that's right, there are NEW! Journal Entries. How
many? Well, considering that I've been writing intermediary stuff on
and off for twelve months now, I've got 57 new stories. Yes, that's
right. FIFTY SEVEN stories.
This now makes (by my records) 174 stories. Whew. Makes you
wonder where the time goes. In any event, I'm happy; I've passed my
second-to-the-last mark: I've passed Mary Khuner as the most prolific
"poster of original fiction" to Usenet. (The original mark was to
pass the atrocious Master Wade series in volume). Although I have
sold stuff now, so I have a photocopy of my first royalty check in my
photograph notebook. And I guess I could get away with calling
myself a writer. (Oh, yeah, the final mark: One Million Words.
Almost there.) (No, that doesn't mean I'm going to stop. Don't get
your hopes up.)
The next stories are going to be (in order):
226 / 0259 Between a Hard and a Rock Place
172 / 0918 Pronouncing the Patient Cured
011 / 0920 Hurricane Force Winds
070 / 0925 Paying For Your Pleasures
128 / 0928 T'Nisha: Reason to Live
134 / 0931 Involuntary Exodus
137 / 0931 Coming Home
161 / 0966 The Wolves
126 / 1022 Planetfall: Purpose
130 / 1022 Planetfall: Ask The Rat
149 / 1022 Planetfall: Convincing Etta
155 / 1022 Planetfall: Recruits
191 / 1022 Planetfall: Spinning Amanda
215 / 1022 Planetfall: The Foreman
240 / 1022 Planetfall: The Handback
252 / 1022 Planetfall: Meeting Tails
271 / 1022 Planetfall: Moving Day
112 / 1023 Planetfall: Meeting Trianna
147 / 1023 Planetfall: Shardik's Revenge
211 / 1023 Planetfall: Starships and Surfing
096 / 1024 Planetfall: The First Man
261 / 1024 Planetfall: Landing Day
263 / 1024 Planetfall: Erecting Tents
291 / 1024 Planetfall: Around and Around The Mulberry Bush
091 / 1025 Planetfall: First Mound
093 / 1025 Planetfall: Chartography
094 / 1025 Planetfall: Battia's Last Battle
144 / 1025 Planetfall: In Daedelos Gaer
145 / 1025 Planetfall: Never See Me Like This
146 / 1025 Planetfall: Going Native
150 / 1025 Planetfall: The Han (Prologue)
157 / 1025 Planetfall: The Han (In Transit)
163 / 1025 Planetfall: The Han (New Haven)
167 / 1025 Planetfall: Lindsay Summer
171 / 1025 Planetfall: Making Love
172 / 1025 Planetfall: Confession
185 / 1025 Planetfall: Contact Has Been Made
212 / 1025 Planetfall: Treed
061 / 1026 Planetfall: Beth, Dao, and Nuclear Weapons
094 / 1026 Planetfall: The Assassin
112 / 1026 Planetfall: Doubts Abound
116 / 1026 Planetfall: Resolution of Doubt
150 / 1026 Planetfall: Comfort From The Cold
159 / 1026 Planetfall: Ramsey, The Dildo Ramsey
181 / 1026 Planetfall: Last Day
201 / 1026 Planetfall: Amanda And The Sphere
021 / 1027 Planetfall: Dependence
048 / 1027 Planetfall: The Big O
161 / 1027 Planetfall: Topping Trianna
242 / 1027 Planetfall: Anniversaries
031 / 1028 The Ritacha War: Breakthrough
032 / 1028 The Ritacha War: Frozen Futures
033 / 1028 The Ritacha War: Alpha Brief
034 / 1028 The Ritacha War: Out of My Hands
147 / 1028 Planetfall: Conceived Purpose
159 / 1028 Planetfall: Minding The Ropes
171 / 1028 Planetfall: Homespace
In any event, "The Ritacha War" is NOT over when you get all
these; these four stories only serve to set up a couple more that I
have planned. But don't hold your breath. I've recently gotten
signed two contracts, so I'll be busy making a living for a while here.
In other news, I do not plan on writing more "Aimee'"
stories. To be honest, I think the characters were as complete as
they could be at the end chapter nine, and unlike the Journal
Entries characters, I think Aimee' and Darynn should be left alone.
I have a vague idea of something I could write for them (illustrating
a single comment Darynn made), but I just don't feel fired up for it
the way I do finishing "The Ritacha War," or going on to the other
science-fantasy ideas I have roiling around.
There *is* a sort-of sideline story I've been playing with,
if only for my own amusement. It's meant to occur during "A Century
of Solitude," which is so far away in terms of writing that it'll
probably be next year when it'll be released. But it'll *only* be
going to alt.prose, as it has no sex in it.
Last but not least, *Thank you all!* for sending me typo
reports, bug reports, encouragement and kind words. It means a lot
that people care enough to send "attaboy" messages.
Enjoy the new stories,
Elf Sternberg
--
PC Bulletin: Henceforth, sentient computers would like to be known as
"Silicon Intelligences." "Artificial Intelligence" is a pejorative term
invented by humans based on the mistaken belief that computers are some-
how not "natural." - elf@halcyon.com