I made a little progress on the prologue of CoP. Although it doesn’t look like I’ve been doing much, I have actually been doing a fair bit of research and some work in the peripheral materials to build things up first. I might’ve gotten more done, but there’s been the update of the site and plenty on my plate at the day job, so that’s been taking the greater part of my time. Hopefully things will settle down by the next cycle so I can move things along. Stay tuned.

We’ve had a bit of downtime on the site as I was updating Drupal. I figured I’d just jump ahead to Drupal 11, but I first had to update to 10.3.6. I did that and then went through the long process of getting things ready for Drupal 11, only to discover that I need MySQL 8, which my provider currently doesn’t have, despite a post back in January saying they were in the process of making the update. (Must be a long process.) Anyway, I then had to revert back to 10.3.6 and run with that. Once that was done, I had to sort out some of my changes that were lost, and because they don’t like you editing the core themes directly, I finally got a functional subtheme up and running and then got a lot of my intended appearance changes applied. I’ll probably do some more refinement in the future, but I’ve already gotten pretty close to what I want.

I’m now developing a navigation sidebar for my stories. I was hoping to get it to work in the blocks, but it doesn’t look like the current structure supports a sidebar on the left, so I’m thinking about just adding the code to each chapter. That’ll be a lot of work, and it’ll be a pain if there are changes I need to made, so I may want to think on it a little more. I’ll sort it out. Anyway, I thought I’d share the goings-on behind the scenes. Now, if only I can make more story progress… Stay tuned.

I didn’t quite utilize my time the way I originally intended, so I only ended up making a little progress in Chapter 21 of TWH, well short of what was needed to finish it. Although I won’t make the update, I’ll at least try to keep the ball rolling this weekend, but with work on Saturday and me having fallen behind on my viewing for the movie reviews, I can’t promise much. Stay tuned.

We’re continuing along in Chapter 21 of TWH. I’ve finally gotten to the much-awaited dinner scene. Fun awaits. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 21 of TWH. Can I get the chapter finished in time? I’m not sure, but I can try. Stay tuned.

I’m continuing to inch along in Chapter 21 of TWH. I may have a way to the end, but it’s a bit cheap and I’d like to avoid it if I can, so I may have to do a bit more thinking. I’ll see what I can do. Stay tuned.

I did a little writing on Chapter 21 of TWH. I was mostly reacclimating to the story before picking things back up. Now I’ve got to push through to the end. I need to actually figure out how I’m going to end it. Fun, fun, fun. Stay tuned.

Rather than story progress, I spent some time fiddling around with the WttW peripheral materials. I wasn’t really writing much in the way of new material, but I was making actual tables for table content rather than just the plain-text approach that wasn’t always lining up quite right due to variable spacing when you go from one platform to another. Maybe the process would go faster if I’d transfer the content over to a spreadsheet and then copy it back into the WP. I still have a few I haven’t made yet, so I may give that a try.

You know, now that I think about it, there is some new content. I’d decided that sugarcane wasn’t going to be available in the World, with sugarbeets and sorghum being the main sources of molasses, but I was doing some more research into the history of sugarcane cultivation and decided that it’d be fine. Cacao remains out, however, so no chocolate. You see part of the idea was to have certain things from our world simply not be available just as a little extra something the Players have to deal with. Anyway, we now have sugarloaves getting added to the item list. I have to decide if I want to add all the associated tools as well.

Anyway, maybe I can get some more substantial progress done over the weekend. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Chapter 9 of RttW. I could probably have it finished with a little more work. I could use the lead time, so I may stick with it rather than switching over to TWH. Stay tuned.

I finished up Chapter 7 of RttW and then checked over Chapter 8, which was already pretty much ready to go. Can’t decide if I’m going to switch over to TWH or spend some more time with RttW. We’ll see. Stay tuned.