About me

I'll be posting how and what I wrote each day. This will be in a short blog-like format, 3-5 minutes including the written part.
Post structure: These posts will include: plan or thoughts for what I want to write this session (written before I start), the writing itself (unedited), stats and timing for that session, thoughts about the session, and what I plan for the next day. A revision or rewriting post will not include the full writing, this would make for possibly very long posts, but will link to the new available version.
Stats: I'll be including stats like words written, writing time, read time and any other I can think of.
Mailing: There is an automated mailing which will fire daily at 12. This will give a short preview for the post and link to the full post directly. I don't like to spam people so there will also be a weekly version which will go out on Sundays: this will give a full recap of the week with links to the individual posts.

Stories: I don't enjoy using the term book because it creates some pressures: a specific format, something you should publish, a specific number of pages,... A book could be a collection of stories or only a part of it. That's why I'm using Story instead, to focus on the story itself.
Chapters: Stories are split into chapters, possibly I'll expand this with parts too someday. A chapter contains a collection of finished writing sessions, linked with posts. What defines a chapter will be very specific to the story it belongs to. In the post, I will leave things like where I stopped my Pomodoro session or other reminders. I will clean these up in the chapters themselves so they are a more readable experience. Reminders for fixes or TODO's will remain in that version of the chapter.
Versioning: This is my backlash from working in IT, I like to keep versions for myself so I can compare before and afters. For each chapter I will keep versions with a status (raw, alpha, beta, gamma, final) together with the large scale changes made per chapter, writing or revise time per version, and the feedback it got.
Creation process: For each story, I'll provide a separate set of 'chapters' which include the creation process and thoughts I had for the story. This will include: outline, characters, world-building, POV, future plans, backstory and more. I will not hold back anything, spoilers will be present here. These will also be versioned.

I would love to hear your feedback on both my writing and my process. You can provide it beneath each post or chapter, or through the mailing page.
Implementing feedback: I cannot promise to implement all feedback but I will check it and reply as soon as possible. I schedule to work through feedback on Sundays.
What feedback is awesome: Of course I'd like to know if you hate or love what I write but specific feedback can help me a lot. Like specific thoughts you had during the reading and what triggered them. Were you expecting something else to happen? Did you see any missed opportunities?

While working on this site, I got a lot of ideas on how to expand functionalities. Maybe someday I will expand it but I need to get writing first.
User profile: The ability to login on a profile which keeps track of progress on posts, stories and chapters. This would be a bigger feature but would make the experience more unique. I could provide a "Continue reading" button on stories, only show unread posts,...
Tracking reading speed: For now I'm using the average reading speed of 250 words per minute. With a simple page, I could track your reading speed and use this instead of the hard-coded one. Also, tools to increase reading speed wouldn't be that hard to implement.
Diff view for versions: This could work like any other diff tool but could provide a line-by-line overview of the changes that were made per version.
Line/paragraph feedback: Pretty big feature but would improve the experience a lot for users and myself. I'd be able to get really specific feedback.

Any other ideas? Let me know, if I get enough nudges for a feature, I'll go implementing it sooner.