Not the One - Return to Earth

I've gone and started writing one of my really old stories again. I will put it up in the library here before long, but I don't want knock DDI down the front page list by putting these in the library just yet. In the meantime, you can find the new chapters here:

Part 1:
dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...1076%2F34464354&qo=4
pt 2:
dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...1076%2F34464354&qo=3
pt 3:
dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...1076%2F34464354&qo=2
pt 4:
dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...1076%2F34464354&qo=0

I was about to send you an e-mail about Not the One when you posted this. While I know that the story is quite old, I wanted to ask you about revising and posting the old chapters from DtV in a bundled format (3-4 per installment) before uploading any of Return to Earth, so we would have the whole story in one place.

What do you say, Dru?

Certainly! I have no objections to that whatsoever. In fact, I'm glad you asked!

Good to see....always been one of my favorite stories!

ElF

The original file for pt 14 was half missing, so I had to do a re-write of the second half of that but otherwise it's pretty much as it was, but with better formatting and a little editing by Woody. If anybody has a copy of the orginal version of pt 14 I'd like to see it. Good god...it's so long ago that I wrote this! Thanks again to Woodclaw for dusting off another ancient tome. More of Return to Earth will be up soon, and all of it will make it's way here to the library in coming days.

Dru1076 wrote: The original file for pt 14 was half missing, so I had to do a re-write of the second half of that but otherwise it's pretty much as it was, but with better formatting and a little editing by Woody. If anybody has a copy of the orginal version of pt 14 I'd like to see it. Good god...it's so long ago that I wrote this! Thanks again to Woodclaw for dusting off another ancient tome. More of Return to Earth will be up soon, and all of it will make it's way here to the library in coming days.

As Dru noted 99% of the story is just a reprint. I just changed the format a bit and edited the obvious mistakes.
I think it's worth noticing that this finish up the corus of Dru's stories except those currently under development.

I just put pt 5 up here:

dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...llery%3ADru1076&qo=0

Go check it out...

Well, the first bundle of "Return to Earth" is now online. Like with "Oh No Sally", these are mostly the Dru's DA entries cleaned up and reformatted a bit.

I'm sorry for flooding the homapage with them.

Thank you Woodclaw. You sure are a handy fellow to have around! And yea...I hope we get a run on story submissions soon...I'm such a ticker hog!

njae wrote:

Dru1076 wrote: Thank you Woodclaw. You sure are a handy fellow to have around! And yea...I hope we get a run on story submissions soon...I'm such a ticker hog!

You make it sound like you expect some submissions there.

Yours maybe.

Oh well...at least I'm not hogging the comments section!

njae wrote:

Dru1076 wrote: Oh well...at least I'm not hogging the comments section!

That's a general issue here.

Agreed.

Okay...here's another one! Two more to go and I'll put the latest chapters into the library here.

dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...llery%3ADru1076&qo=0

thanks for that!

Cheers!
ElF

Dru1076 wrote: Okay...here's another one! Two more to go and I'll put the latest chapters into the library here.

dru1076.deviantart.com/art/Not-the-One-R...llery%3ADru1076&qo=0

I have in the past steered people toward a certain forum, the forum where I first started posting Not the One RTE. I will not actually mention the name, assuming those who know of it will know of whom I speak. Don't go there. They exploit their membership, treat people like sh%t, and host pirated files from sites we all know and love. Whoever heard of a site that threatens members to force contributions from them?

Dru1076 wrote: I have in the past steered people toward a certain forum, the forum where I first started posting Not the One RTE. I will not actually mention the name, assuming those who know of it will know of whom I speak. Don't go there. They exploit their membership, treat people like sh%t, and host pirated files from sites we all know and love. Whoever heard of a site that threatens members to force contributions from them?

Most of the people there seem to be self absorbed a-holes in search of only karma or freebies.

My $.02
ElF

Just to clarify, I am not talking about DeviantArt. The community there has been nothing but helpful and supportive! They are champions of freedom, and I love it there.

Dru1076 wrote: My links to not the one in the thread there were blocked with no explaination. When I sought one I found it dishonest. They wanted me to post the story there, claiming they do not host links on their site. Anyone familiar with whom I speak of will know that's complete bullsh!t. The last thing I will say on the matter is the place is run by at least one forum nazi. I recommend avoiding them.

I could not agree with Lfan more.

Just to clarify, I am no talking about DeviantArt. The community there has been nothing but helpful and supportive! They are champions of freedom, and I love it there.

We should all just move on from the experience!

ElF