All The Young Punks - N.Y.C is now on Wattpad. I put a link on this blog. >>>>
The New York chapters begin after Johnny burns out and the band are fractured. Joe moves to the city with the idea of starting a new band with Simon.
Sons of Providence is very close to the previous version. N.Y.C. has undergone more significant changes; new scenes, new chapters, and a reshuffling to reduce the length of the wordiest chapters. I will always write punks with creative freedom breaking all the rules. The stories are long and there are many tangential tales. Editors hate that shit. I don't care. That said, I would like to reign in my chapter lengths. That means more chapters. I'm okay with that.
No one is buying a paperback. Who fucking cares if my Punks Universe is longer than Game of Thrones?
So, the NYC chapters are different, but it's the same story with the same outcome. Just fixing my errors makes this punk project worth the time for me but going through the story one more time with the knowledge of what is in the middle and the end of Joe's tale gives me all kinds of ideas, seeds planted of future events I could not have done previously. It feels like cheating. I have a punk crystal ball. I know what the future holds. I now get to tweak the past to make it better.
Speaking of my many errors, I've uninstalled Grammarly in favor of Pro Writing Aid. I recently joked about the commas I have unemployed in my attempt to clean up my comma abuse. I let Grammarly decide if they belong. Hundreds did not make the cut. Pro Writing Aid wants me to put them back in.
ARGH!
My name is Don. I am a comma addict. I have accepted that the Oxford comma will always challenge me. Like any addiction, it's a life-long struggle.
I have decided to no longer publish my punk writing on Royal Road after my failed test run with ATYP - SOP. I'm disappointed because I really like the tools RR authors have. When the time comes, I may consider publishing my vigilante crime story on RR. I believe that work might fit there.
I can't say Wattpad outperformed RR. I've had many more views on RR, and it's not close, but the fact is Royal Road is for fantasy writers while Wattpad is more suited for real-world drama and romance. On content, this is an easy decision.
At the moment - all opinions are subject to change - I'm confident I will keep publishing to Wattpad. Postcards and The Venice Scene will follow ATYP. Because they're more recent works, there will be less rewriting on those projects.
I had all 150 of my published chapters deleted by Lit. I waited ninety days to make that request and they promptly removed my work. If any readers were caught in the middle of a series when this happened, I apologize. It didn't happen out of the blue. I've been dropping hints since I left that site.