BrianJNordon

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I've never finished a Book before, and since I've been told to keep it below 150,000 words by a Publisher, I've been trying to figure out what way I want to proceed. I know what's goi...

Chapter 44: Remember Me? - Part One

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Sincere apologies for the delay with Chapters this week. A few personal health issues arose that stopped me from sleeping and concentrating. I wasn't able to focus on writing, and I ...

Chapter 43: Discovery

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Sorry for the delay! Here's the next part of Wildcards. I tried a few different things with the status bars and I wasn't sure about the quick switching between perspectives, so let m...

Status Update on Chapter 43!

I wasn't able to finish the chapter last night, and I have classes today. I'll hopefully have it finished this evening, and just wanted to thank you for your patience. Doing a post-grad and a story was not a good idea! 

As a bonus, here's Otto protecting my Whiskey from Pedro.  2021-02-01 08:21:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 42: A Kraken Plan

Happy Tuesday!

Sorry for the delay in getting this one done. Just had a very busy weekend and didn't want to rush the story. I'd just like to remind readers they need to go back and re-read Chapt...

Chapter 42 will be up tomorrow!

Hi Everyone,

Just hit a bit of a delay with the most recent chapter and want to make sure it hits all the right notes. I'll be posting it up tomorrow, so I just wanted to apologise for the delay. 

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

James

Re-Write / Retcon - Chp 40 & Chp 41 - Complete

Edited 1:40am on 23rd January.

Everything is done now, hopefully you all like the changes to them!

Hi Everyone!

I'm going to be going back to Chapter 40 and editing the middle part and end part. I've had some good conversations and great feedback from Patrons and on ...

Chapter 41: You have Chosen... Legendary!

Edited at 1:40am on 23rd January!

Just did some improvements following on from the previous Chapter.

Also, huge thanks to everyone that is supporting me! Really appreciate it so much.
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Chapter 40: Dread Faction Advances

Edited on 1:40am on 23rd January.

Added nearly 2,000 words and explain strategy a little more. Hope you like the changes!



Happy Sunday Everyone!

This was a fun Chapter to w...

Chapter 39: End Scene

Happy New Year! 

First of all, I wanted to thank you all so much for sticking with me into the new year. Your encouragement and patience has meant so much to me, and I really appreciate it. It...

Activity Update - Taking a few days break

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I just wanted to apologise for the delay in posting up the next chapters. I recently had a few personal issues that came up that affected my physical health and mental health. I wasn’t able to sleep or stay focused on anything for prolonged periods of time, which ended up ca...

Chapter 38: New Direction

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So I'm a level 15 Corpo in Cyberpunk, which has been dominating my weekend. This chapter is 2.5k words long and serves as a bit more development into our antagonists. I'm ...

Quick Update: Chapter 38 Releasing Tomorrow

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I will upload the next chapter tomorrow instead of today. Just wanted to let you all know. There are two primary reasons for this.

1. I started a part-time professional diploma this week which has taken nearly 50hrs away from me.

2. Cyberpunk 2077 released on T...

Chapter 37: That's My Ship!

Happy Friday & Saturday!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I was tempted to just jump into the action, but thought it would be good to show a bit more of James' ability and what made him so ...

Chapter 36: Relativity

Happy Friday Everyone!

With this, we've finally hit the end of Act 2! I've envisioned an additional 8 Chapters to wrap up the end of Book 1, which is both terrifying and amazing for me. I've outli...

Chapter 35: Paragons in Action

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Thank you for your patience with me this weekend. Here is Chapter 35. I hope you'll enjoy it. We're very close to the end of Act 2, which is incredibly exciting for me. I'm looking f...

Next Chapter Tomorrow

Sincere apologies to everyone waiting on the next chapter. I'll be releasing it tomorrow. Just wanted to let you all know instead of leaving you in the dark.

James

Chapter 34: Industry In Motion

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Here's Chapter 34 of Wildcards! Hope you enjoy it and have a great weekend. I've been experimenting with dictation software, so my editing took up a lot of time. On the upside, I thi...

Abidden Side Story: Chapter 2 - Why I Work Alone

Happy Friday Everyone!

Chapter 34 of Wildcards is going to be uploaded in the next few hours, just editing it at the moment. 

While you're waiting, here's Chapter 2 of...

Abidden Side Story: Chapter 1 - The Server Scraper

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I've entered the Royal Road Writeathon. This will be my entry. I just need to get another 12,500 words done of this story in the next 4 days. I'm hoping to create a story that...

Chapter 33: A Moment of Clarity

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Here's Chapter 33, at long last. It has some self reflecting and a bit more awareness in it. I think you'll all see what tone I was trying to achieve. It'll remain to be seen if I ma...

Delay of Chapter 33 - Update Post

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Thanks for your patience and for continuing to support Wildcards. I really appreciate your patronage and sticking with me. I wanted to explained what happened with Chapter 33 and why ...

Abidden Side Stories! Patreon Exclusive

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So I wanted to add as much value for my Patrons as I can. I'm completely focused on Wildcards and will be trying to build out Abidden and the Real World Districts as I progress. If ...

Chapter 32: Establishing the Lair (New Revision)

Happy Friday!   

Thank you all so much for your help with this one. I was very happy to get such great feedback on the first iteration of this chapter. I took all that advice and decided...

Chapter 31: The Butcher (Bonus Fan Art!)

Good Evening!

Here's the next Chapter of Wildcards. Reji asked if I could start putting up files in a different format, so I've attached an epub file of the chapter too. They're not as sexy as th...

Chapter 30: Welcome to Rayth

Okay, now it's 5:44am... so I'm pretty sure it's Friday for a lot of you now. Or at least it will be soon. :)

I really enjoyed writing this and the words just flowed really well for me. That said...

Chapter 29: Blessing of the Vampire God

Happy Friday Everyone!

(It's been Friday for 1hr and 39mins and 40 seconds in Ireland - So that's my excuse)

I hit my stride with this Chapter and I'm starting the next one immediately. H...

Chapter 28: Realisation

Happy Friday Everyone!

I'm working on the next chapter now. Thank you for the continued support, I really appreciate it. I've given myself a challenge to write more in October and I'm happy that ...

October Writing Project: 50k Word One-Shot Story

As some of you may have seen on Discord, I'm setting out to write a new story alongside Wildcards. I'm challenging myself in the month of October to write a complete one-shot story. There are a few reasons I'm doing this.

I want to be more disciplined with writing. I'm currently in the mi...

Chapter 27: Press Conference (Revised Complete)

Happy Very Late Thursday / Early Friday Morning! 

Thank you all so much for your continued patronage, I really really appreciate it. I released a chapter I wasn't happy with earlier in the wee...