Enoch Fortune has been banned even though he did follow most of the rules. I warned him about trying to DM folks and he did not listen. I had high hopes as he did follow the other rules and played like a good citizen. Oh well Happy Monday!!

I had truly meant to have a video up today but life happened this week and a couple of videos didn't. Unfortunately finding a spare few minutes this week when it was quiet enough to record has been tough. I can write and code pretty much anywhere anytime. So an update! The "Scrapyard Princess" Book during my read through was a mess. Story was good but consistency was awful. Remember this was my BookNova book. Soooo....i put the 13 chapter 38k novella it made of the 70k is was supposed to be into BookCrafter where it kept most of the original chapters with massive rewrites and added 16 more. Now at almost 80k words its a much better story, but still has issues to resolve.... it did get a much better cover in the process from a new graphics update The other from last weekend will get its debut this weekend and maybe something else.... Fable was running non stop....okay 45 minutes or so and then a 5 hour wait since Thursday and had to switch to Opus because I ran out of Fable time. I'll probably run into a time wall for the week and be stopped until next Thursday sometime today. Most of today will be a day trip to see some new things in a nearby town. What has everyone else been up to this week?

It's pretty simple. We have a three strike rule here. Do not join just to advertise to the folks here. Shmooze us.. participate a bit.. Convince us you're not slimy. If you get to level 3 and put out an ad, I might just let it stay. IF you have a product or service that would be helpful to the members here who are primarily AUTHORS and those wanting to be WRITERS, then cool. Explain what you do or what you have and WHY it would be of use to us. Again, I might let it stay or I might send you a very nice kindly worded rephrase of this post. Send the same damn ad three times and you're gone. I KNOW there are several on the members list aching to post their ad and just haven't yet, a couple have gotten their first and second warnings. When in doubt why not just ask me? I'm pretty easy to talk to and I might even say go ahead. I'm all about helping folks out here and will even recommend other groups to folks if I think people here might be interested. I hate being this way

I feel like I am failing the group. There I've said it. I was tied up last night and most of today with worky bits and more I really should be doing right now instead of finishing a book or fixing the series counting bug I found in the Binder. And I couldn't stop myself from doing some more research on an upcoming feature because it was hot on my mind and I had to get it out. (Anyone want 3d printable figures of your characters?--bad michael no cookies) This pic below is the parts of all of this I carry with me every day to work on wherever I may be. My own personal every day carry of guilt and despair. It is so much! So tonight I'm going to bring order to the Chaos. Instead of reading and final edits I'm working on the new roadmap and schedule (that is workable) to start getting out regular training, workflows and feature by feature for WCP and BW. This may take me a day or two. Tomorrow nights office hours will be as usual any questions you may have, anything I can share and some discussion over what we're going to do together in the next few months. I know many will be busy with BIAM this month But I need help with priorities. First priority in my mind is a quickstart and onboard video and adding screenshots to the update online manual, fix the hypertext links within it to be more useful. Document every feature, written and video. I'm going to release these to the chats and the classroom. Second or simultaneously cleanup the classroom and make it make more sense and be more useful. Third is to publish a few more skills at the premium and VIP level and bring more value there for the folks at that level. You are appreciated. Right now if someone reports a bug I'm fixing it asap. If I know of a bug that doesn't affect function or quality I've been leaving it alone for now and dealing with them in batches. Let me know your thoughts. I have the list of everything published here so far but might have missed something. We are at over 450 posts now!

And how well do you know them? Once upon a time when I used them daily I was a Photoshop and Illustrator Wizard, now I feel like I'm relearning something new again. Canva is great, but has so many parts to it I have a hard time with it. I've had Affinity for awhile (before Canva bough tit and made it free) So this is what I'm tryign to switch to as much as I loved adobe, free vs $29/mo is an easy choice, so it's my go to local tool. And online I use Leonardo.ai, Tensorhub.art, tensorart.art, Canva, and of course WCP more and more. I haven't really gotten into the video side yet. There's a host of 3D tools and other similar for variety of fabrication tools I have CNC, Laser & 3D Printers. PLEASE post below what you use and how. How comfortable are you with them? I do not plan and have never thought that WCP was going to be the one and only tool for the job so I'm looking at easy integration and import/export to and from other tools. Layout Crafter got a huge jump today and I think I know how to send files to canva, but I need some direction so I do not over (or under build).