I made the push to get Chapter 9 of CeleKing1 mostly finished. There might be a few sentences I need to add in later, but it’s good enough for now. I had to make a point to actually do the writing because I’m currently fixated on meeting a particularly tricky objective in GBF. If I should succeed, I’ll detail the madness I’m subjecting myself to. If I fail, we shall never speak of it again. ^_^; This week I’ll be working on TSoA1. Stay tuned.

All I managed to write was a mere paragraph Friday, but I then made up for it by doubling quota Saturday. Actually, Friday I spent a lot of time doing research which then helped things along. Oh, yes, in the odd chance you’re viewing this post in isolation or haven’t been following along chronologically, said progress was in Chapter 9 of CeleKing1. It’s looking like I’ll be lucky to finish it this week, but it’s turned out to be a rather long chapter, so it’s understandable. I’ve still got a month and a half until the launch and I believe I already have a sufficient lead, so it shouldn’t be too bad going forward. TSoA1 is going to need a lot more work if it’s going to launch around the same time. I like to have a ten-chapter head start if I can manage it. We’ll see what I can do. Stay tuned.

More progress on Chapter 9 of CeleKing1. I should still get it done this week, but it looks like it’s be a bit longer than I originally anticipated. Stay tuned.

After bounding along so well, it almost feels disappointing to just meet quota, but so it goes. Chapter 9 of CeleKing1 is coming along. Hopefully I can wrap it up soon. Stay tuned.

Another day of double quota on Chapter 9 of CeleKing1. Things are coming along nicely. Another round or two and I should have it done. Stay tuned.

We got a good headstart for the week with nearly double quota on Chapter 9 of CeleKing1. The mascot always makes such a fuss whenever I’m acting out fight scenes to get the choreography down. I’m sure I look crazy to her and to anyone else if I had an audience. ^_^; More to come. Stay tuned.

I wrapped up Chapter 1 of TBP and did a little writing on Chapter 2 as well. Tempting as it is to stick with it, I’m going to switch over to CeleKing1 as planned as it’s closer to launch and I need to give myself as much lead time as I can. Ideally, I want to get at least two chapters knocked out this week. Stay tuned.

I already made the announcement on Twitter, but I put the finishing touches on Akasame’s epilogue of TTWC3, completing the novel. Yay. Just for fun, let’s rank the 24 leads of the TTWC series based on the word count of their sections. The results may surprise you (and may not).

1. Daphne (TTWC1)              – 20092
2. Carpos (TTWC3)               – 14176
3. Xanthe (TTWC1)               – 12688
4. Ionathas (TTWC1)            – 12074
5. Simona (TTWC3)              – 11331
6. Akasame (TTWC3)            – 11094
7. Solon (TTWC1)                  – 10051
8. Cronos (TTWC1)               – 10513
9. Urgill (TTWC3)                  – 10121
10. Mab (TTWC3)                  – 9756
11. Corona (TTWC1)             – 9466
12. Rowland (TTWC3)           – 9291
13. Scipio (TTWC3)               – 8603
14. Garm (TTWC3)                – 8028
15. Caligo (TTWC2)               – 7656
16. Xenomachos (TTWC1)    – 6936
17. Medusa (TTWC2)            – 6770
18. Orguz (TTWC2)               – 6556
19. Xorgoth (TTWC2)           – 6024
20. Arachne (TTWC2)          – 5512
21. Python (TTWC2)             – 5492
22. Gamaliel (TTWC1)          – 5200
23. Monarch Lich (TTWC2)  – 4987
24. Dox (TTWC2)                  – 4002

Hmm. I think my Elf-bias is showing. Given that Daphne’s section has the most bearing on the Umbriel Cycle at large, it’s little surprise she has the largest share, but some of these surprise me at where they stand relative to the others. I’m sure I have a round of rewrites in my future, especially to expand on TTWC2, but this is what things look like now as of Version 3 of the story.

I didn’t do much writing on TBP other than a couple lines in Chapter 1. All I did for the most part is review the prologue and what I’d written thus far on Chapter 1. I intend to do a little more writing on it and then switch over to CeleKing1. Stay tuned.

I made good progress on Akasame’s epilogue of TTWC3, not quite finishing it, but there’s only a little bit to go. Stay tuned.

Well, after a disappointing start to the week, I managed to turn things around mightily, making up for all that lost time and blazing through Akasame’s Chapters 4 and 5 and making some decent headway into his epilogue as well. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be done with his section and TTWC3 as a whole in one more sitting. Quite satisfactory. This means I can move forward with TBP this week. Looking forward to that. Stay tuned.