What does editing entail?

Lord Winter

Excellent work, as always!

Wookey

It's live

Jim lynch

It's 8-33 pm in the U.K now argh I can't wait I just finished chapter 75 again lol

any minute now... :)

so am i

I'm on a serious withdrawal- for my next fix....and not alone lol

Anthony Kester

SWEET!!!!

happy

Thaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnkkkkkkkkk You!!!!

George41

WOOHOO! Can't wait! They should be out right when I get out of my afternoon classes!

yaaaaaàay.... lol feel like a crack addict waiting on the next fix lol

Yay!

Tefler

I've received the last of the edits, and I'll start them when I get back from work (2h from now). They'll probably take me a couple of hours to complete, so you should get the next chapter in about 4-5 hours!

Get the edits back yet Tef?

Any update Tefler?

ETNSosa

Or pink slips

Jedi Khan

Aw, man. Looks like it's going to be another long boring day at work then. I was hoping to have the new chapter to keep me occupied. Oh well. Guess that means I get to read it in peace at home without risk of interruptions.

Evan

Sleep! It does a body good.

Tefler

Hey everyone, I'm still waiting on final edits, so I'm thinking tomorrow should be the day. :-)

yep, that is true

Lord Winter

From his lack of a response, I'd say he's probably balls deep in the edits so he can get this chapter to us sooner. He's shown himself to be acutely aware of our anticipation.

I'll give it an hour more but yeaahhhh.... looking more like monday release.

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Well...it is midnight London time. So we are probably looking at Monday for the release.

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

LOLs....we are soooooo adicted

waiting unpatiently

Tefler

I'm still waiting for the last one, but he usually suggests the most significant scene changes. I've incorporated everyone else's suggestions, so I'm just waiting on him at the moment.

Tefler, have received all your editors feedback yet?

They could probably literally "save" Athena by dragging her into Faye's Progenitor server and saving her as data. She's already in spirit form anyway so jumping into the digital realm should be easy.

interesting... if they delay, we might find out what the Ashanath's secret weapon is... Weirdly, I really wanna ignore the main story and be worried about Athena, the progenitor side chick. Can he create a body for her? if he does, faye might get one too. otherwise I can't yet picture how she might be saved. Any ideas?

Believe he knows that and his being a kindly gentleman in give her the choice.

No, just setting waiting on Tefler to finish his edits; but I do believe that John will also give the other Matriarchs the white-hair treatment and finish the refit first before leaving.

We'll get a new chapter today!!! So... any predictions? Mine is that John tells the other matriarchs about the other progenitor to hurry along the treaty before hurrying off to grey space

DCM

Oh! that's a good one!

George41

You should check out Deathworlders by Hambone. Just his main series alone is over 900,000 words. Plus there is a ton of additional content in the whole Jenkinsverse, with 2 additional super long series, and several additional shorter series.

After a quick game of rock-paper-scissors, John began to form the plating for the inside of the turret wells. Alyssa was overjoyed to have avoided working on any form of armour plating, and she only teased him lightly for losing. John is always gonna lose a rock-paper-scissors game with Alyssa unless he up his mind shield playing a game. She fooled John.

Kim Biel-Nielsen

I can hardly wait for the next chapter. TSM is my favorite story. So keep up the fantastic work.

GrandPaM

Thanks for the inside view on your process, Tefler. I have done some editing work with Latenight_Pondering on his works, and if you ever need any additional editing help, ping me.

hi tef hope your day is going well

Thank you for sharing this process Tefler, and the care you and your team take in giving us such a polished story chapter after chapter.

Tefler

I've just sent you a message. ;-)

Tefler

You're welcome!

Tefler

Yeah, I'll keep you guys in the loop. :-)

Tefler

No problem, I hoped it might be interesting.

Tefler

Thanks! That process has just sort of evolved through trial and error, but it seems to work well. :-)

Tefler

Fathersin contacted me around chapter 14 or so and offered to help. I started advertising for more editors at around chapter 35, and two more guys volunteered then. The last one joined about 3 months ago, after I asked if anyone else was interested.

Tefler

Thanks! I really hope you like the next chapter!

Tefler

I just thought you guys might be curious. Before I started writing I had no idea what editing might involve. :-)

Tefler

I'm hoping Sunday, but it depends how quickly my editors get back to me. I finished editing part 1 last night. :-)

Servo1969

I'm curious. How did you find your editors? Are they people who volunteered? Is this in person or all online?

Keep on keepin on...... you do good.

Jedi Khan

lol Tef, there's no need to be subtle. If you want us to chill out and quit pestering you for updates during the editing stage, just tell us. We're all grown-ups here (hopefully).

Patrick Briley

Thanks for the insight. Does this mean that we will Ben getting a new chapter here in the next day or two?

Evan

Speaking as an editor, I will say that that's very impressive, both in the coordination and the turnaround time. Most of what I edit is significantly larger, but I tend towards a forty-eight hour editing schedule myself as a solo editor. Excellent work!

Ahh Tefler you need to tell them the truth... You know the real process is to have it " sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters." All kidding aside that is fantastic turn around time and I am glad you found a group of folks that work well with you.. I know how hard it is to get a good process going and keep it going! Please do let your fans know if that ever changes as with Aussie Dan there may be others who will lend a hand if things change!

Thanks for letting us know this. I will be more understanding of the time it takes from completion to release of chapter now. Great to hear from you.

Tefler, if you're ever looking for another editor, please let me know. I've had a lot of experience writing and editing my work and that of others and would love to be able to contribute to the process.

Grimlakin

Thanks for the insight. Much appreciated.