June 14, 2025 - Update
Added 2025-06-14 06:38:26 +0000 UTCHi!
I hoped to get a third chapter finished for tonight, but life got in the way. Any sane person would just admit that they couldn’t finish the book by the narration deadline, but I’m not ready to throw in the towel yet. Mostly because family is arriving Sunday and they can help with the kids, which should allow me far more time to write. If next week goes well and I make significant progress, I’ll take the next week off of work to finish the book.
One of my favorite people/authors is Sean Oswald. We both started writing LitRPG in 2019 and he inspires me to be more productive. Sean produces 10 to 12 high quality books a year, every year. I have no illusions of matching that, but I truly believe I can do better than 2 books a year. There are so many other stories I want to tell.
Sean will be at the LitRPG conference in Denver (and so will Travis Baldree). Maybe one or both of those guys will reveal their productivity secrets to me after a few beers. I hope to see you there as well.
I opened chapters 44 and 45 for Root.
I opened chapters 46, 47, and 48 for Harvester.
I added chapters 49 and 50 for Step Master, Blapy’s Favorite, Divine, and Axiom.
Enjoy!
Thank you so much for spending time with this story.
Take care,
AFK
Comments
Yes, good point. I don't know how Sean does it. You'll be happy to know ***SMALL SPOILER**** that you will get to see some Ash and Echo in this book.
A. F. Kay
2025-06-20 23:13:13 +0000 UTCI think you are exactly right. It is a balance and the fact the quality is so high at that pace is a miracle in my eyes. I do work super hard on continuity and explaining things that confuse people. Thanks for the comment.
A. F. Kay
2025-06-20 23:12:02 +0000 UTCThis is probably the wrong place for this and it’s a bit critical, but I mostly enjoyed Sean’s WttM, and I am a patron now and I will continue to read his stuff. I just wish it wasn’t filled with typos, grammar mistakes, and story continuity issues (sometimes within just a couple of chapters something we were just told gets retcon’d w/o explanation), I think he probably just tries to produce too many different stories at once, and can’t keep the details straight, it’s a real shame because I really like that story in particular, and I wish he would just slow down and give it the attention it deserves. I suppose the business decision is that it’s good enough that it’s selling, and I still read it and want to read more, so maybe it has less importance than I think. But the silly mistakes are still immersion breaking, for me at least. AFK, please don’t try to go so fast that you can’t maintain the quality your story has enjoyed up to now. I think that the right pace is dependent on the author, and the help they have. Actus for example also cranks out around 13 chapters for three different stories nearly every week, and rarely has these types of issues. To me that means he’s setting a good pace for him. I assume in both authors cases they are not alone and there is a team working on all of this. That, or they are super human.
King Nereus
2025-06-20 20:45:47 +0000 UTCSean's catalog is pretty dense. Travis is just self driven to an extreme. That dude is always doing something. The cinematic was taking up a lot of his time recently. Regardless, you planted the seed for Ash and Echo to have some fun in his story. Thank you for changing the pacing and the speed run of ruwens version of Pokémon. Gotta collect all the gems. Vampire Alchemist. That is still making me chuckle. Thanks!
Lonnie
2025-06-15 20:44:10 +0000 UTC
