I actually did quite a bit of writing yesterday. I was about to finish up Gamaliel’s Chapter 2 of TTWC1, but I then I decided to make a change to the timeline. I wanted Solon to be in his 80s when he died, as it was originally written. You’ll recall that I did a major shift of the global timeline a while back. A number of the characters’ birth dates remained the same and so were made ten years younger. This obviously didn’t make much difference to an Elf like Xanthe or a Dragon like Corona, but ten years means a lot more to us humans. (Yes, by the by, ‘Xotikes’ are just the in-universe name for Elves. In other books, where it makes linguistic sense to call them Elves, I do, so it’s not like I’m trying to hide it or anything.)

In making the change, I also had to change the Monarch Lich’s birth date, which led me to hop on over the TTWC2. I then wound up writing and rewriting on several chapters throughout the book. The story has changed considerably since the previous draft (now over ten years old), so sometimes it’s easier to just scrap the old version entirely and start anew. Funnily enough, I didn’t actually adjust those dates until just now when I recalled that was my original purpose.

I’m also working on a lexicon of Goblinish. Don’t worry, I don’t plan on having protracted passages of straight Goblinish, just trying to work out some terms and the phonological properties of their native tongue that would influence their dialect. (Yay, more dialect. You’re going to love Urgill in TTWC3. :P)

I imagine more work on TTWC1 and 2 is in the pipeline for the immediate future. Sorry, GottMono1. Slice of life is hard to write. ^_^; Stay tuned.

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