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Tunnel Rat Chapter 99 Rough Draft

I'd always had it in the back of my head that Milo had some limited interactions with people in the hab, but this is the first I've really written about them.  This chapter will tie into a few...

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Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 171 Rough Draft

The Courier raced through the parlors and passages of the estate, pushing his hound for speed. The brave dog had already run for half a day, carrying his foot tall rider and his messenger’s pouch...

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Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 170 Rough Draft

Formatting here is difficult. This chapter will start with a spoiler message containing all of the various system messages that Suzette has recieved with Building Points.
There is a chart with a...

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Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 169 Rough Draft

As with all rough drafts, these are 'first thoughts'. All comments welcome. I think about things for a day or two, and a lot of times find ways to make the words flow better or change things around...

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Tunnel Rat Chapter 97 Rough Draft

Boom-Boom finished his beer and tossed the empty mug back to the bartender. It wasn't much of a bar, just two tables and a dozen chairs with the 'bar' being a slab of wood supported by two barrels....

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Tunnel Rat Chapter 96, very rough draft

A full day off, only have to make a pan of enchiladas and then back to writing. I'm hoping to have the second part of this done later today.


Leviathan
raced for the safety of th...

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BoG Chapter 167 Rough Draft

Hatchet in hand, Suzette headed to the chicken coop and its over-abundance of roosters. Lots of hens meant lots of egss, but extra roosters just meant trouble. As she started to enter the fenced in...

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Tunnel Rat Chapter 94 Rough Draft

A short chapter, which might end up having more tacked onto it, sections filled out. But posting it up for now.

Gert made a gesture for her guards to be wary but not attack. It might be a li...

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Tunnel Rat Chapter 93 Rough Draft

There were a lot of people in the mines when Milo got back to that level. Too many people for his comfort, it was like a street fair. Vendors were selling food, and there was even a musician playin...

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Tunnel Rat: The Sea Mage (Rough Draft)

The covid fog had me scattered for a bit. I wrote a lot of half chapters that sort of wandered to nowhere. Getting back on track. This little snippet will appear before the next chapter, showing a ...

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The Iron Queen (Patreon Only story from Tunnel Rat)


Just finished this, and exhausted. Still fighting the battle of the covid. Popping this up, might polish it more, but also have to get working on the next story for August

Three figures ...

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Map Making

First attempt at mapmaking using WonderDraft. This is only partialy done. It's a good program, but every 5 minutes I seem to be on the internet researching how to delete a label or change a color. ...

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The Great Kallvek Rough Draft

Slowly recovering from Covid. I've been managing a little writing, but my thoughts are scattered all over the place. This happened last night and this morning. I'm debating when they show up.
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Covid just sucks

This latest version nailed me despite having a couple of shots. Just laying in bed all day, sleeping. I think I got complacent about it after having avoided it for a year. I'm working on new stuff,...

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Rough Draft Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 165

We now return your village to   Defcon 1. My that was close...

M'F'ARGLE, a Level 19 Epic Boss   from Beyond the Stars has been sent home.

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1st bonus chapter is in the works.

We just broke 100.00 total, so as promised, from now on there will be a monthly bonus chapter here on Patreon for anyone in the 5 dollars and up levels. Based on voting, we'll be starting with one ...

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Rough Draft Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 164

Ozzy was concentrating as hard as he could on his Pit. As Joe tried to increase the heat of the pit, it was getting harder to hold things together. He wished he knew how hot they needed to get that...

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Rough Draft: More witches

Seriously, I don't know what came over me with this one. I'd thought of introducing Jenny for some time. Mimosa came out of nowhere fully formed. Yes, Goblins gain mana from drinking, and stat ...

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Rough Draft Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 163

This is going up soon, and then I'll be following up with more BoG later tonite and tomorrow.

"No! Just NO! This is a Smoke Pit, boy, not some damned make-shift forge. You want to melt down ...

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Bonus Time!

Nearly to 100.00 and the first bonus story. With two stories running, I'll probably do some sort of alternation, but wanted to see if there was a preference of what to start with. 

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VERY ROUGH draft of Chapter 91: Leveling up

This chapter is a lot of 'Infordump'. Skills, stats, increasing them, spending experience. With Milo putting off spending exp, (a decision made at the time and the story sort of rolled along with a...

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The difference between Rough Drafts and Final Versions

My writing process goes something like this
1) Daydream about the story while driving, resting, and supposedly doing work. Create some ideas I'd like to write about.
2) Have a general idea wh...

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Rough Draft Tunnel Rat Chapter 90

The mines beneath Shadowport branched out for miles, intersecting at times with natural caves and vertical crevasses. The route that Milo normally took to travel downwards to Harry's basement area ...

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Rough Draft Tunnel Rat Chapter 89

Sidney sat silently. Steven asked his best friend, "Perhaps you could tell us what Milo has guessed. Catherine is more than the proper name for someone nick-named Kate?

Wally sent Steven an...

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About those Bunny Girls....

I had someone ask me "What is up with the Bunny Girls and the ears?" Is that a playboy reference?
And no, they aren't. But I can see how someone could think that.

I have twin girls who c...

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Rough Draft Tunnel Rat Chapter 88

Milo sat waiting for people and an AI to show up on the screen. What could he expect now? His mind kept spinning off into scenarios of questions aske, questions answered. He'd filled most of the ti...

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Rough Draft BoG Chapter 162

From all over the area mud erupted as small bits of ore came from the ground and landed near the thing. Along with the ore was a vast cloud of the lichen that carried the rustblight. Any b...

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BoG Chapter 161 Rough Draft Part q

Barkroar was trying not to move, but the human was doing things to it that itched terribly. "Are you done yet?!"

"No, but this is almost the last patch. You don't want me to...

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Tunnel Rat Chapter 87 Part two Rough Draft

I've learned a lesson about writing when you can't sleep at 4am: Always make sure you saved the work correctly. About two-thousand words of this chapter that I wrote that night somehow got lost. &n...

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Chapter 159, part two is up

I hit a block after doing the first half, so I went and wrote a chapter about McTeeth that was in the works, and came back to it. The original post has been edited

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