Saturday I spent a ridiculous amount of time tweaking the positions on the sigil of omnimancy because I was trying to make all the elements overlap in a thematically appropriate way. It was important to have this all ironed out and finalized for the choreography of Chapter 39 of Tellus, which has been bedeviling me all this time. One of the four tetrads doesn’t quite work right, but I’ve got 12 of the 16 elements right where I want them, so that’s going to have to suffice.

I made a little progress on the chapter itself Sunday, then floundered about the next couple days until the floodgates appeared to open. The chapter’s title is “Convocation of Chaos” and one of the main problems that’s been sticking me this long is that the scene is, well, chaotic. There’s too much going on at once, which led me to conclude that I just needed to take advantage of the limits of the active lead’s POV and just bring things to an end. I might’ve been able to pull together the focus to end it, but then an interruption came up and I’ve let myself get derailed again.

Now that I’ve burned up my lead time in JJ2, I really have to get back on the ball. My resident productivity expert doesn’t help, but I don’t really have any business blaming her. I’ve got a three-day weekend coming up, so maybe I can turn things around. Stay tuned.

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