Several Small Updates

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Normally, I try to stick logistical updates at the end of the other posts, but I somehow ended up having like four of these at once, so they're getting their own little post. 

1. Once we have a confirmed release date for the Wheel of Time TV show, I'm going to start a chapter-by-chapter series like I'm doing right now for Dresden Files. The emphasis is going to be a little different - Wheel of Time is a complete series, and its handful of unanswered questions are likely to remain so. Thus, rather than searching out clues to the ongoing mysteries of the plot, we will, with the full benefit of the hindsight, be looking at the social, economic, cultural, and ecological landscape of the world itself, and the technical execution of the series's moral arguments and immensely complicated character arcs. And the food. I'm gonna get really detailed about the food. 

2. Until we have a release date, I'm going to try to increase the frequency of the Dresden Files posts to twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday. There are a lot of books in the series, and they're all at least 30 chapters, running to upwards of 50, so posting more than once a week is kind of necessary to finishing in any reasonable timeframe. 

3. The experiments with timed fiction writing sprints are now underway, so I should have results to report in about a month. I'm doing one set of tests with random - but known - durations between 5 and 30 minutes, and another using a random/secret timer app, because apparently such a thing does exist, to see if not knowing the exact time actually helps. Before I found it, I was intending to use the wait time between rounds in the Pokemon TCG online "on demand" tournaments, so the unknown-time set are still officially "tournament trials" in my notes, even though they no longer have anything to do with tournaments. 

4. Sometime in the next week or so, this blog is going to start having ads. I'll try to keep them unobtrusive, but I'd like to get a little extra monetization going, and I don't expect anyone's Patreon budget is gonna increase very soon. I will at some point set a threshold over on the Patreon goals past which I can take them back down. Also, if you see any ads here for Bad Things, like particularly scammy vanity presses and the like, please let me know. I don't know the exact process for doing something about that sort of thing, but I do know that there is one. 

The next Dresden Files post will be tomorrow/the day after tomorrow depending on whether you're reading this now (functionally still Monday night) or Tuesday morning. Until then, be gay, do crimes, and read All The Things.