Aug 21 2013

WIP Update – 20 Aug 13

I finished Chapter 14 of Tico3 (as you’ll soon see), so I guess I’m going to have to switch gears back to TTWC1 soon. I’ve also been going ahead and getting the meta-tag summaries written up so it’ll be one less thing to do as future updates roll in.

Aug 20 2013

WIP Update – 19 Aug 13

I didn’t make as much progress as I would’ve liked yesterday. I swear, sometimes I wonder if actually having a job would consume less of my time than looking for one. Anyway, I did mostly wrap up another section and have two more to go. This may mean the release date gets pushed back to Thursday, but we’ll see.

Aug 19 2013

WIP Update – 18 Aug 13

I actually did have some incremental progress from Saturday, but I feel kinda silly reporting so little. I realize that the whole point of these WIP update posts is to keep a running log of progress great and small, but sometimes it feels like I’m just wasting everyone’s time saying, “Yeah, I managed to write a few lines of dialog. Whee.”

Anyway, putting Saturday and Sunday together, I’ve finished the dialog for Chapter 14 of Tico3 and filled in the narration for two and a half sections. I just have two and a half more to go, so I stand a good chance of getting the chapter out on schedule. The actual content of the chapter has changed a fair bit from my original (albeit barebones) plan, so the name is going to be changed from the former “Phalanx” to “View from the Back”. You’ll see what it means when the time comes. Until then.

Aug 17 2013

WIP Update – 16 Aug 13

I didn’t get much work done. My progress was mostly conceptual, figuring out the flow of the chapter, which I suppose is no small part of the work. I made the token gesture of getting at least a line done for each section. I know that’s not saying much.

Aug 16 2013

WIP Update – 15 Aug 13

Well, I finished up that chapter of Daphne’s, but I was mostly running after rugrats yesterday, so that’s not saying a whole lot. Time to shift gears over to Tico3.

Aug 15 2013

WIP Update – 14 Aug 13

Did some more work on Daphne’s Chapter 3. Still haven’t finished the revisions, but I’ve had other stuff occupying my time. I really should move on to Tico3, but I’d like to finish this. We’ll see what I get done.

Aug 14 2013

WIP Update – 13 Aug 13

I found myself working mostly on Daphne’s Chapter 3 yesterday (mostly because it’s a chapter that was completed in the earlier version I felt was complete enough to warrant an update rather than a total rewrite). I’ll probably go on to finish it and then switch gears to Tico3 so I update on schedule next week.

Aug 13 2013

WIP Update – 12 Aug 13

I’ve mostly been doing work on the peripheral materials today, but I did get Cronos’ Chapter 2 done, so we will have a story update coming up Wednesday. I meant to get a Mascot Monday out this week too, but my backlog of vids is starting to thin out and photo updates take so much more work by comparison. (Yes, I know I’m being criminally lazy in my current marginally employed state.)

It’d be lovely if I could sharpen my focus and really make some major progress rather than this inching around nonsense, but I think my aforementioned marginally employed state is starting to dull my cognitive functions. I suppose a physiological cause is possible, but the days seem to get away from me before I ever manage to accomplish much of anything. As much as I’d love to get by just spending my days with my writing, I think it’s all the other stuff like work and school vying for my time that force me to make the most of what time I can get. Then again, I am terribly prone to distraction, an unfortunate by-product of the age, but that’s no excuse for poor mental discipline on my part. I think I’ll end on that note lest this post warrant the “Ramblings” tag. ^_^;

Aug 12 2013

WIP Update – 11 Aug 13

I’m almost done with Cronos’ Chapter 2. Man, has it been quite the slog, but I’m almost there.

In a vaguely related note (because I completely scrapped the old version of this chapter), I’ve been doing some looking at TTWC2 and 3 and I have the distinct feeling I’m going to scrapping a lot of the old material and rewriting from the ground up. Perhaps because it’s been so long, my current vision has shifted a lot from what I had back in V2. It’s not like the KoG series, which I was continually tweaking over the years. There’s some good stuff there, but it’s not quite what I want anymore. It would figure that I’d find creative ways to give myself more work. Of course, I should be focusing more on what’s currently being serialized and less on what’s now years out on the horizon at my current rate of progress.

Aug 11 2013

WIP Update – 10 Aug 13

I did more work with the peripheral materials, mostly hammering out the family tree of the Dragon royal family. I also did more work on Corona’s Chapter 1 before shifting gears and progressing on Cronos’ Chapter 2. I’m almost there with the latter. If I can just push forward over the next couple days, the update will be ready in time for Wednesday. I have a couple other things to tend to as well, but hopefully I can get everything together. Stay tuned.