I managed to make up for missing a day with decent strides in Simona’s Chapter 4. A couple more days with similar progress and I should be able to finish the chapter. Stay tuned.

Again I wound up working on Tzipi’s Garden instead of TTWC3, but a new week’s starting and hopefully I can redirect my focus. Stay tuned.

I would have to say that Orguz is probably one of the characters who benefitted most from the Version 3 expansion of TTWC3. At very least, I had planned for him to be a sympathetic character ever since Version 2, but his story was given a lot more breadth and depth recently. Originally he was Urgill’s father, who was aggrieved by her defection to the Promethean Alliance and reluctant to see his people used as the Monarch Lich’s cannon fodder, but that was about it. For Version 3, I instead made him Urgill’s grandfather and drew up his family tree. I made him into a reluctant king compelled to wear the crown as a puppet ruler who had seen the folly of defying the Monarch Lich when his people were conquered. Everything he does as king is meant to limit the suffering as his people, a vain effort though it may be.

Goblins are often portrayed as always chaotic evil, but there are some people who try to avert that. Basically, my take is that they’re a largely primitive, violent race but many are more neutral and there are stand-outs like Orguz who are actually among the more moral and decent characters I’ve crafted. He’s definitely an oddity among his kind, something he himself rarely fails to make note of. You can also see his more broad-minded ways in his treatment of the scout Orgdith, valuing ability over appearance.

Despite his advanced age and a nature that was out of step with his people’s culture, Orguz was actually one of the longest reigning kings of Shade’s Forest, partially due to the Monarch Lich’s patronage. There wouldn’t have been another who could’ve led his people so long under the circumstances, but I don’t imagine most people respect a successful collaborateur.

I guess this’ll do it for him. I may do a supplemental post on Goblin society someday. We’ll be back here again in seven weeks once the next section is complete. Stay tuned.

I’ll admit it. I only wrote a couple paragraphs on Simona’s Chapter 4 of TTWC3. Normally that wouldn’t be enough to warrant a post, but I did spend an inordinate amount of time putting together the family tree of the Redgrave royal family for Tzipi’s Garden. That warrants mention, I believe. It was somewhat nightmarish to craft because there are basically six noble families that intermarry generation after generation. I know it’s fairly plausible given a historical view of the aristocracy, but that’s a lot of dang incest. -_- Because I strayed from the beaten path in the latter half of the week, I think I’ll stick with TTWC3 and try to round out Simona’s section. Stay tuned.

I know I said I was going to work on TTWC2, but I worked on Tzipi’s Garden instead. Doing quite a bit in the peripheral materials but also some writing on the story itself. What can I say? I had an image of a character flossing her dragon’s teeth and had to see it through. Anyway, we’ll see if I can at least get Simona’s Chapter 4 done before the weekend’s out. Stay tuned.

I managed to continue to stray off the beaten path. I did some more writing on Tzipi’s Garden and added Candidate 03 into the mix. I am a believer of following up on inspiration when it strikes, after all. And while I still may spend some time with one, the other or both, I will try to at least get through Simona’s Chapter 4 before the weekend’s out. I’ve got a fair bit of homework to do but not so much that I shouldn’t be able to knock out a fair bit of writing too. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish up Simona’s Chapter 3 of TTWC3 and make a little headway on her Chapter 4, then I made a surprise turn and did some writing on Chapter 23 of Tzipi’s Garden. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,” you say. “Did you somehow magically write the past 22 chapters when no one was looking?” No. In fact, beyond the first couple chapters I still don’t have much of anything set for the plot. So why Chapter 23? Well, Chapter 23 happens to feature the event that inspired the entire book, so that explains why it was sticking in my mind and I wanted to flesh it out on the page a little more. Anyway, TTWC3 is supposed to be my focus for this week, so I’ll try to stay on task. Stay tuned.

I’ll come right out and admit it. I blew my free time on Labor Day playing FEif instead of doing any writing. I may have written something like a sentence or two at best. However, I made up for it yesterday by moving on ahead with Simona’s Chapter 3 in TTWC3. Another day and I should have it finished. It may be too ambitious to try to finish her section by the end of this week, but I’ll make that a goal. With the resumption of EM and the launch of JJ coming up next month, I should probably focus on them when I’m not working on TTWC3, but I may wander around a bit. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

With my stated goal of trying to finish Chapter 5 before the weekend’s out, it’s going to sound odd for me to say that I wrote on Chapter 8 instead. The reason for this is that I use OpenOffice Writer and the word counter doesn’t always work right, so I have to highlight the entire document. This then kicks me to the end and I work my way back up. I just happened to stop on Chapter 8 on the way and decided to write on it for a while. I doubt I’ll finish Chapter 5, but maybe I can at least get one or two sections done before I switch over to something else. Stay tuned.

I finished up Chapter 4 and did some work on Chapter 5 of JJ. I’ve expanded the scope of the latter, so finishing it this weekend may be out of reach. If I can manage the time after finishing my homework, I’ll try to make it happen. Stay tuned.