This is a punk update rambling.
My rewriting, editing, and cleaning up these old punk chapters, both Sons of Providence and the early nineties cheating period has resulted in the unemployment of countless commas. I value and respect the comma. It's a very useful tool. I have simply hired too many for this story and now I must have layoffs. I feel terrible that Oxford families will struggle. Each comma in my hire is being reviewed and evaluated. The 2025 Punk Universe will have only the necessary comma workforce.
What I'm enjoying about my current writing habits with this punk publishing project is my ability to move in time and write what I'm in the mood to write. I was working on 1990s Punks, reducing chapter lengths by rearranging scenes. This will result in more chapters. I'm shuffling the deck. This scene can be moved. That scene cannot be moved. I play with the story timeline to make it work. Then I got tired of that. I needed a change of pace. I opened Sons Of Providence early NYC chapters and worked on those. The Greenwich Village years are getting significant reworking, more than I expected.
So got bored with mid-90s Joe and traveled in time to visit early 80's Joe then I decided to back to the future. I did a few thousand words of White Wedding one night and followed that with another half-chapter. Then I went back to the 90's Jasmine era. An underrated LA character in my opinion.
This jumping from one book to the other in the punk universe may seem unproductive but it's not. It's fighting a battle on multiple fronts. I have read, edited, and rewritten nearly sixty chapters across the series since Christmas, added new dialogue and scenes, and used my 20/20 creator's foresight and hindsight to make small story tweaks that tie the books together.
Some chapters barely change and others are overhauled, long chapters broken up, new chapters created, and scenes moved from one chapter to another. I wrote reunion scenes and a whole reunion chapter to fit in the 1990s timeline when Joe is touring with CoA.
This is literally a literary puzzle and I'm writing my ass off. Something is getting worked on every day because no matter what mood I'm in I can find a chapter to work on.
Going back to the future is a nice break because I want to write new stuff. I'm working on the wedding and also the newlywed years. How can I make Joe's married life entertaining? I have ideas and the main storyline is not R-rated.
As I'm writing and rewriting I'm also thinking about this publishing dilemma I have. I'm dropping chapters on both Royal Road and Wattpad and will continue to do so. Then I will let them sit to watch the numbers.
My new attitude on these platforms is this; at the very least, the latest and best version of my punk story will live on an accessible platform. I must learn how to get eyeballs there but I am handicapped by my lack of social media.
I will likely drop one platform in favor of the other. I'm leaning toward Wattpad right now but I'm undecided. I do know this. The second book, All The Young Punks - N.Y.C. will start on February 1st on Wattpad. I have the first thirteen chapters queued up. From there, I will post roughly a chapter day until the Lit story you know is rewritten and republished. I'm estimating that will take until the end of May.
At that point, I can get back to the future writing and begin publishing new books. Because I'm working on them as well as the rewrites I will have chapters ready when they're needed to keep this 2025 publishing plan moving.
I have to get back to Joe. I was working on Future Joe today, a chapter called California Girls. Living with Joe in Venice is a challenge for Tina. The number of women in Joe's orbit is unnerving at times. Everywhere they go, "Hi, Joe." And her fiance is chatting with some hottie. Being married to Joe is going to be a major challenge.