Category: Gladius

Mar 16 2024

The Road to Recovery – Day 14

I did pretty well for myself today. I got through KoG2 and 3, T3W and KniTwi, as well as adding a fair number of teasers. From here, I can focus on the remaining Cross Arc stories and any other odds and ends and that should wrap up the Stories section of the site. I should be able to get all that done by the time the weekend’s out. From there, I can start getting the reviews back up, and once all the content is restored, I can start fighting with Drupal so I can get things looking the way I want. By my estimates, it’ll probably take another two weeks. We’ll tentatively set our goal at being fully functional by Easter. Now it’s back to work for me. Stay tuned.

P.S. While working on T3W, I did get sidetracked a bit doing some renaming of characters for greater consistency. Ended up renaming about half of Randwulf’s family tree, and that’s just for starters. I still have the other seven of the Eight Stars to go, but I’ll save that for another time, and maybe explain things in a Commentary post.

Jun 13 2022

WIP Update – 06-11 Jun 22

I finished Chapter 8 of TWH for the update and made some progress on Chapter 9 as well. I was spinning my tires a bit mid-week, so I found myself doing a re-read of KniTwi and catching a few errors that slipped past me in earlier drafts. I’ll be shifting gears to NagaTen. As I’ve got a bit a lead time, I’d like to go ahead and finish Chapter 9 of TWH, but we know how those plans usually turn out. Stay tuned.

Sep 13 2021

WIP Update – 06-11 Sep 21

Getting back to work meant getting back to work… work on writing, that is. I managed to get through Chapter 21 of KniTwi and went on to do Chapter 22 and then finish the epilogue to wrap up the book. Maybe I can finish EM2 when its turn comes around next. Stay tuned.

Aug 29 2021

WIP Update – 27 Aug 21

I made a little progress on Chapter 21 of KniTwi, by which I mean very little, but I’ve at least started the dang thing. Now I need to actually push ahead and finish the dang thing. Stay tuned.

Jun 23 2021

WIP Update – 14-19 Jun 21

I’m running behind left, right and center, aren’t I? Well, let’s get you all up to date on my progress last week, especially when the end result was another release delay. So I picked up my work on Chapter 20 of KniTwi. All well and good. I made a fairly significant change in the sequence of events from my earlier draft of the story and was left wondering how to time the transition between Chapters 20 and 21. The end of the week rolled along and I still didn’t have it figured out, hence the delay. Rather than brute-force a solution when I got to that sticking point, I decided to move on ahead. Because of the ambiguity with where Chapter 20 should end and where 21 should begin, I skipped over 21 and for no particular reason, skipped Chapter 22 as well. I suppose I just wanted to write down the confrontation in Chapter 23. Well, I did that, continued through Chapter 24 and got about halfway into the epilogue. If I can swing another week this productive, I’ll have the book finished. Wouldn’t that be a treat? I’m still puzzling over the ending to Chapter 20, but I’ve got some extra time to figure it out. Stay tuned.

Jun 13 2021

WIP Update – 07-11 Jun 21

If I was on the ball, I would’ve finished Chapter 20 of KniTwi and maybe even knocked out one or two more chapters while I was at it. Instead I wrote a little bit, then wrote this unrelated chapter that I think is going somewhere in the Legend of Nell series, but I don’t actually know where at the moment. I then decided to reread Tellus and managed to uncover a couple dozen typos that escaped my initial passes through the story. Finally I got a tiny bit more done on Chapter 20. I’m going to have to buckle down as the chapter is due out next Saturday. Stay tuned.

Jun 08 2021

WIP Update – 31 May-04 Jun 21

I was supposed to be working on Chapter 20 of KniTwi. I started, but then was spinning my tires and switched over do Chapter 39 of JJ2 instead and once that was done, I returned to KniTwi and got a little bit done. I probably need to keep working on KniTwi, but I might end up wandering over to something else. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

May 29 2021

WIP Update – 24-27 May 21

After going a week with no progress, I put my nose to the grindstone. Didn’t make up for lost time, but I did at least meet my weekly quota. Now, I was supposed to be writing Chapter 16 of EM2, but the circumstances in the story drove greater escalation than I originally intended, so I’m thinking what I’ve got would work better in Chapter 24, but that creates its own set of problems. I’m going to have to work it over in my head some more and probably make some adjustments. I’d like to fiddle around with it more, but I also need to think about switching over to KniTwi. I’ve thankfully built up a bit of a buffer in the schedule, but last week has cut into that. There are no days off over the next three weeks, so that bodes well for progress. Stay tuned.

May 08 2021

WIP Update – 06-07 May 21

I didn’t get a word written during my days off, but I pretty well managed to make up for it by getting through Chapters 18 and 19 of KniTwi and starting on Chapter 20 as well. I need to be switching back to JJ2 after this. Stay tuned.

Apr 18 2021

WIP Update – 10, 12-17 Apr 21

I’ll admit to slacking off majorly, making poor use of my abundant free time as far as story progress is concerned. I didn’t do much better last week, but I did inch along on Chapter 17 of KniTwi until I finally got it finished. I’ll be back at work this week, so that may actually prove beneficial to my writing progress. It’s time to get back to JJ2. I don’t have that much further to go on the chapter that’s coming up, but it’d be nice to build up a bit of a buffer. As always, we’ll see. Stay tuned.