I worked on getting things together to better resolve the pickles of Chapters 3 and 4 of Tico4. It’s still going to take a fair bit of legwork before I get it all resolved. Other stuff is keeping me pretty busy at the moment, so I don’t know how much progress I’ll be making this week. I’ll see what I can do, though. Stay tuned.

I did a little more writing on Nagareboshi Tennyo. I think the premise would’ve made a fine JRPG fifteen or twenty years ago. Given how much JRPGs have been languishing in recent years, maybe it’d be good today too. There are some shades of Grandia and Lunar 2 for sure. Pardon me while I reminisce on my misspent youth.

I’m thinking about redirecting my focus to Tico4 next week. Stay tuned.

I did a little more piddling around with Nagareboshi Tennyo. I don’t have a whole lot of the story figured out besides the basic premise, but it’s fun to play around with. I really enjoy the freedom the Cross Arc grants me when it comes to the setting. The original three Arcs have been so strictly codified that I have to work in rather specific limitations (all self-imposed, admittedly), but the Cross Arc allows me handwave just about anything. I know I should be focusing on Tico4, but I’ve got a decent lead already and sorting out the last bit of Chapter 3 is going to be a bit of a pain, which is why I’m procrastinating. To say nothing of what a terror Chapter 4 is going to be. So it goes. Stay tuned.

I worked on a short that acts as a prequel for KoG1 (actually part of a small series that gives a brief glimpse at each of the six main members of Mark’s party shortly prior to events of the main story). It’s primarily intended as an option to pad out the wordcount in case I’m optioned for publication and the current 60K is deemed insufficient.

I’m also piddling around a bit with the Cross Arc story Nagareboshi Tennyo, mostly just ’cause.

I pretty well finished the prologue of Tico4, did a little work on Chapter 3, and some bits of dialog elsewhere.

In other news, I’m considering adding in another story to the publication cycle once Tico3 is done. I haven’t committed to the idea yet, but we’ll see. There was a time (back when there were only three Arcs instead of five) when I planned to have one story from each Arc serialized every week. That was an easier idea then when I had a lot more free time and four books already pretty much completed. Now I don’t know if I could pull that off even if I did nothing but write. Still, it’d be nice if I could up my output a little more, but I suppose if I can at least be consistent, that’s good too. Stay tuned for decisions to come.

I’ve made some progress in Xenomachos’ Chapter 3 of TTWC1, but not nearly as much as I was hoping for. So it goes, I guess.

I’ve pretty well finished Xenomachos’ Chapters 1 and 2 and made a little progress on his Chapter 3. So now I essentially have the middle of Xenomachos’ section and the beginning and end of Gamaliel’s. Life’s funny like that. I may continue to push through Xenomachos’ Chapter 3 and then go back to Gamaliel’s Chapter 3. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Xenomachos’ Chapters 1 and 2 of TTWC1. Yes, I know I should be focusing on Gamaliel’s section, but these two chapters already have the dialog mostly completed, so it’s easier to just get those knocked out. I’ll probably finish those up and then go back to Gamaliel. Stay tuned.