Alured de Valer: Blog

Going to have to skip another week, folks. The laptop containing the master file for VT has been in the shop for a week. It didn't help that the fellow working on it left town for two days to go watch his son play in a state championship football game. The good news is the team won, the kid scored three touchdowns and was named offensive MVP. Lots of celebrating going on around here now.

I won't be posting the next chapter of Victory Tour this week. Too much going on IRL.

All I have to do is make deadline a day early, survive Thanksgiving and cover a third-round playoff game in the next six days.

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Chapter 12 of Victory Tour has been submitted for posting.

This was a weird week. I usually get things in the queue by Wednesday or Thursday, but both were extremely busy for me this week.

Then Friday was a road football game that may have been the game of the week as far as this state was concerned — two reigning state champs separated by maybe 45 miles, which is an extremely short distance in this part of the world. I'm still a little foggy after making it through that.

Anywho, enjoy.

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Chapter 2 of Victory Tour has been posted. More high school hijinx and some rather unfortunate fallout. Here's hoping Gary survives.

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I've started posting Victory Tour, the sequel to Best Summer Ever. I strongly recommend reading BSE and the alternate ending. That will help understand several references that will be made.

I've written more than 400K words, already longer than BSE, that I've been posting on Patreon. I'm right at 40 percent through my story outline, which covers from the start of school in mid-August through the end of the fall semester in mid-December.

Chapters will cover one day in the life of Gary Robinson and the gang from BSE. This is different from how I post on Patreon, where I'll write a part with 3,000 words or more and post after editing. The first chapter contains six parts and more than 16,000 words, but there's a lot of scene-setting and recapping. Most chapters will have two or three parts. Some will have more and a couple only have one.

Since I'm 50 days into the story (118 parts on Patreon), posting a chapter a week should keep me from catching up to where I am. I mean, we're talking about almost a year's worth of posts before that becomes an issue.

The plan is to post on Saturdays, but that could change based on my schedule in real life.

This story covers a broader scope than BSE and introduces a lot of new characters. Some will be more important than others. The main thing is Gary has even more females vying for his attention as he juggles playing football with school and maintaining established relationships. Let's see how he handles things.