As noted in the previous post, I’ve been kept rather busy of late, and while I may not have been able to sit down and focus on story progress, I have managed to continue my scans through EM3 and then NagaTen. I then had to implement all the changes across EM2, EM3 and NagaTen. (Remember that I have to apply the changes to the original manuscript, the offline HTML backup, and the online version.) Loads of fun.

And of course amidst all this, I have work at work and my resident office productivity specialist at home interfering with me getting to dedicate time to actual writing. Still, it is what it is and at least I’m not left entirely empty-handed, as editing is an important part of the writing process, even if it’s edits done to stories that have been posted for months or even years. Anyway, we’ll see what I can accomplish over the weekend. Stay tuned.

Monday I was mostly busy with the review update, much as I’d be on a normal Sunday. Tuesday I still had that one as of yet untitled story on the mind. I’d brainstormed a few scenes, but I didn’t get much written due to a fuzzy someone’s interference. I managed to switch gears to RttW on Wednesday and write a bit on what should go in Chapter 9 or 10. I was also doing some peripheral work to flesh out some more of the game system.

Besides this, I was continuing my work going through EM2 and digging into EM3 as well. I won’t say there’s a massive amount of errors to be had but definitely more than enough for me to be glad I caught them. Periods where I was having to do things like transcribe handwritten work or use my tablet to write warrant a decent share of the blame for a lot of the typos, but since I’m my only editor, sometimes it takes time for me to come back to a manuscript with a fresh set of eyes to catch things I overlooked in the initial passes. Anyway, that’s enough for now. Work is keeping me hopping at the moment, but I have time opening up in other places that should mean good things for me making progress. Stay tuned.

I only did a little writing on Chapter 23 of EM3, but I did spend a fair bit of time sorting out the corrections I’ve been making to EM1 and EM2 and also writing on a little short that came to me in a moment of inspiration and may be developed into something at a later date. We’ll see how things go. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapter 23 of EM3, but work is starting to pick up again, so that means less writing time. We’ll see what more I can get done. Stay tuned.

I continued my progress on Chapter 23 of EM3. Much as I was going over the CeleKing series last week, I’m going over EM1 now to find stuff that’s slipped past my radar and I’ll be going through EM2 as well. More to come. Stay tuned.

I didn’t get any writing done Monday, but then I had a dream that I wanted out of my head, so it needed to go onto the page. I then proceeded to write this 3200-word piece that would’ve been great if it was actually relevant story progress. It might end up finding its way in some other story in the future, but it doesn’t help with the main objective for the week. As far as that goes, I only made about a paragraph’s worth of progress on Chapter 23 of EM3. I’ve had to do some research on squash. It’ll make sense when you read the chapter in six weeks. We’ll try to pick up the pace in the coming days. Stay tuned.

I managed to pretty well finish up Chapter 22 of EM3, so it’s more or less ready to go when its turn comes up in two weeks. Of course, it’s TWH that’s up next and I’m going to have to hop to if I want its next chapter ready before the deadline. Fun to come. Stay tuned.

Wednesday kept me hopping, so no progress then, but yesterday I had some downtime between grading entrance exams and the staff meeting before we could go, so I was able to make some progress on Chapter 22 of EM3. We’ll see what can get done on my comp day. (Don’t hold your breath, but I may surprise all of us yet.) Stay tuned.

Monday was another day of me making minimal progress on Chapter 22 of EM3 before conking out and yesterday would have been even worse, as evidenced by the fact that I didn’t even get to making a simple post like this, but I actually did better than you might think, making some nice headway in Chapter 22 of EM3 while working on the outlines for the WttW series during my free time at work (enjoying it while it lasts, which isn’t long).

I believe I’ve mentioned before that my most recent projects have taught me that writing by the seat of my pants is terrible and a major contributor to all the delays we’ve seen in those projects. I want to avoid that in the future, so I want to go back to putting the proper planning back into the process. That can be a little tricky when I’m pushing myself to consistently release new content, but in the case of RttW, I already have a good headstart that affords me some time to get things sorted out. How well all this works remains to be seen, but if you want to achieve a goal, you’ve got to set it first. Stay tuned.

Ugh. This is starting to drive me crazy. I can’t get more than a couple sentences in before I’m out like a light for some two hours. Well, so it goes. One day I’ll get lucky and enjoy an unbroken spell of writing without my body shutting down on me. Anyway, a little progress was made on Chapter 22 of EM3 and maybe I can drive forward and get it finished before switching over. Stay tuned.