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  • Class Notes: Where Are We?

    Another Wednesday, another update. Right up front I’ll tell you I’m not done re-writing the final plot point. I’ve started seriously questioning the location for the last big battle. (GASP! He let slip a spoiler! There’s going to be fighting in the last plot point!) By changing the setting I could better align the climax…

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  • Class Notes: 11 of 12

    I REALLY can’t wait for the day that I can talk about how this campaign has evolved over time. What a long, strange trip it’s been. There’s not a whole lot more I can say without giving away plot details, but let’s just say that certain elements have continued to evolve event this late in…

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  • Class Notes: Loose Ends

    Class Notes Wednesdays are my way of keeping myself honest and on track. It forces me to come clean with you, the patient fans who have been waiting years for Degrees of Horror. So let me just be up front and say plot point 11 isn’t done yet. Still working on it. In a lot…

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  • Class Notes: Bringing it Together

    As promised last week, I did in fact finish Plot Point 10. Here’s the stats: Plot Points Completed: 10 of 12 Pages: 44 of 47 PP word count: 2,276 of 25,248 Although many of my plot points call back to what has come before, this adventure–the first of the Senior year plot points–is where I really had to…

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  • Class Notes: Brought to You By the Letter i

    Since I do my editing from multiple computers, I keep my Degrees of Horror files stored on the cloud so that I can access them from wherever I happen to be. I’ve developed my own versioning system so that if I delete a line or paragraph that I later want to restore I have the…

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