Chapter 70

UPDATE on May the 31st 2015 : it has been an extremely busy year for me, with chronic overtime at work and general exhaustion. I had health problems linked with that in February that still linger on. I sincerely long to finish that project as intended. This would take several months, starting this summer if everything works fine.



New Year update : I am overwhelmed at work, and didn't progress a bit. One should look forward to May, at best, for any progress.

UPDATE : no new posts until the middle of November.

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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch70.epub
https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch70.mobi


8 pages

Erich tries to go back to his family and a simpler life.

There will be one chapter per week in October, on average, and then I except to be able to post about two chapters per month during the winter. 

 "Glasses and Pulleys" is now over 355,000 words long.

Solsys
avemarisstella9@googlemail.com

Chapter 69

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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch69.mobi


9 pages

The emergency is over, and with the new harvest, people reorganize themselves. A new world is at hand, or is it really ?

There will be one chapter per week in October, on average, and then I except to be able to post about two chapters per month during the winter. 

 "Glasses and Pulleys" is now over 355,000 words long.

Solsys
avemarisstella9@googlemail.com

Chapters 68

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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch68.odt
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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch68.epub
https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch68.mobi


10 pages
The relocation north is under way, and Erich tries hard to be up to the task.

Current writing status : Chapter 71 is underway, chapters 45 and 46 are still not written.

Okay, so I'm back for some more chapters. I will post one chapter per week, because things have still to be adjusted. On the Louisiana side of the novel, things will be evolving to a post-crisis situation from the chapter 70, and so the time frame changes gradually into a protracted epilogue.

After having arrived to the chapter 74, I'm going to switch back to the Norman and Jessica story, first by finishing the chapters 45 and 46, then... Well it's been said I'm spoiling too much of the novel in these posts.



Things continue to evolve for me, I have to work longer hours at my job, but I try to free up enough time to finish the novel. There are ideas for other novels, but I will first finish this one.

There will be one chapter per week in October, and then I except to be able to post about two chapters per month during the winter. 

 "Glasses and Pulleys" is now over 355,000 words long.

Solsys
avemarisstella9@googlemail.com

Chapters 66 and part of chapter 67

UPDATE : the chapter 67 is now complete. The files have been updated.

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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch66to67.odt
https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch66to67.pdf
https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch66to67.epub
https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch66to67.mobi

13 pages

With Kathryn evacuated, Erich tries to save as much as possible from the storm. Like everybody else after the storm, they will have to evacuate northwards in order to survive.


Current writing status : Chapter 67 is still underway, chapters 45 and 46 are still not written.

What has been written in chapter 67 really is a work in progress, a number of things are not really settled. Usually I published the chapters when a couple of other chapters had been written, in order to fix a number of elements.


As expected, I am not able to resume writing at the moment. I'm already glad to be able to sleep properly since last week (as you can guess, I'm the same kind of on/off workoholic as Erich...)

I except to be able to resume writing in July, or more probably in October.

 "Glasses and Pulleys" is now over 334,000 words long.

Solsys
avemarisstella9@googlemail.com

Chapters 64 and 65

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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch64to65.odt
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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch64to65.mobi

17 pages

Mackenzie describes the brutal events in town during "Grinding Night". Erich and his people organise the place as best as they can, keeping in mind they're now being observed.


Current writing status : Chapter 67 is still underway.


As anticipated, there will be no new window of opportunity for me to continue writing in the upcoming months. Next week-end I'll post the remainder of what has been written so far.


I except to be able to resume writing in July, or more probably in October.


"Glasses and Pulleys" is now over 333,000 words long.

Solsys
avemarisstella9@googlemail.com

Chapters 62 to 63

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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch62to63.odt
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https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch62to63.epub
https://sites.google.com/site/solsysbooks/Ch62to63.mobi

17 pages

Erich meets with Anna-Lena and her companion in their own hideout, discussing long-term aspects of the crisis.
In the following chapter, Matthew takes Erich to a tour of the meat processing facility he set up hastily.

About chapter 63 : it is both about cannibalism and industry. It is a somewhat disturbing  moment, comparable to a documentary about meat processing. In my humble opinion, it is not really possible to imagine and describe cannibalism, and even less in such a fashion. Nevertheless, I think it had to be adressed in the novel, since it's an integral part of that post-apocalypstic environement.

Current writing status : Chapter 67 is still underway.

I'm several days late when posting this : not only has the opportunity window closed, but on the contrary I find myself with lots of work on my hands.

I had to find both the time and the energy to review these two chapters for errors, and I'm not sure to be able to do the same for chapters 64 and 65 until the weekend. Therefore, these chapters will be posted on Saturday the 18th.

On the long term, it's more probable than not that I won't be able to resume writing in the following months. I always prefer to write several chapters in a row rather than write them in a piecemeal fashion.

Another aspect, which is not "fishing for compliments" but is also an issue is that I get next to no feedback for my work, although there are more and more people visiting the blog and viewing the updates.

"Glasses and Pulleys" is now over 333,000 words long.

Solsys

avemarisstella9@googlemail.com