I did some work on Chapters 17 and 18 of EM3. Not enough to finish either, unfortunately, but work’s been a bit busy in the rush prior to summer vacation. I’m not holding my breath for big leaps and bounds in TWH in time for the update, but I’ll see what I can do. Stay tuned.

As you saw, I finished Chapter 21 of NagaTen for the update and added a little bit to Chapter 22. I need to switch over to EM3, so we’ll see if I can get the next update ready in time. Stay tuned.

I finally managed to finish Chapter 15 of TWH, as you’ve probably noticed, and while I was trying to get back into the groove for the next story writing cycles, I did some minor edits in EM3 and started in on Chapter 22 of NagaTen (as I had an idea in my head I wanted to get onto the page). I’ll be trying to finish Chapter 21 of NagaTen before the weekend now. It’ll involve breaking through a long-standing bit of writer’s block. Wish me luck. Stay tuned.

Another week, another bit of progress on Chapter 15 of TWH. I might as well continue to push onward with this one while an idea is relatively clear in my head as I’m pretty well stalled on the other three stories as well. I hold some home of summer vacation being an opportunity to clear my head and forge ahead, but we know that the more time I have, the less I tend to accomplish. Anyway, as term exams wind down, I have a bit less on my plate, so I’ll see if I can’t make the final push to get this one done. Stay tuned.

It’s hard to believe that this is the tenth anniversary of the blog. It’d be even harder to believe anyone would still be reading it given how little I’ve been updating it lately. (The Russian spambots are ever reliable, however.)

I started this as a way to hold my feet to the fire a bit (a fire that’s clearly in need of stoking as of late) and to share some behind-the-scenes tidbits with the audience. Besides picking up progress on story writing, I’d also like to start making more commentary posts. At least once a week would be nice, but we know how my plans and promises tend to work out. I’ll see what I can do, and maybe I’ll make this blog worth reading again. Here’s to reform and recovery. Stay tuned.

I just found a little bit of time to make minor progress in Chapter 15 of TWH. It’s better than nothing, I suppose. If only I got points for the time I was putting into TotK, right? Anyway, we’ll see if things change next week, but don’t hold your breath. Stay tuned.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been kept rather busy of late, hence the rather sparse updates, and what time I’ve had to myself these past few weeks has been mostly dedicated to playing Tears of the Kingdom (which is a fine way to unwind, by the way). Although I’ve gotten almost no writing done in all this time, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about things and wanting to put my nose back to the grindstone. And then we happen to have things lighten up for a bit and I was able to put in a decent bit of work on Chapter 15 of TWH. I’d like to have done more, but I suppose my own choice bear no small part of the blame for the lack of progress. Maybe I can turn things around. I’ve certainly been talking about it the past few months. It’d be nice to make something actually happen. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 19 of NagaTen, as you’ve surely noticed, and also got through Chapter 20 as well, so we’ve got things lined up for three weeks from now. I’ve still got some good lead time on EM3, but I could always stand to get further along. Whether I’ll find the time or not remains to be seen. (Work has me hopping.) Stay tuned.

So there’s been no activity here in a good month. I’ll be honest with you, I thought there would be some spells when I’d have nothing else to do but just sit and focus on writing, but there really wasn’t that much time when it was just me and my writing. I did a little bit of work in some of the peripheral materials, but no story progress. However, once I got back to Japan, I was struck by a bit of inspiration. If I didn’t have orientation for my new job on Friday, I may well have had Chapter 14 of TWH ready for the 25th, but I had to postpone until the following week. Still, I got it done, after all this time spent stuck in a rut, I got it done. “What about the next chapter?” you ask. Yes, well… about that…

Actually, that brings me to what I’ve been working on since then. You see, I have a bit of a scaling problem with the map of Tellus and that affects how I calculate travelling distances and whatnot in the stories. Now, with a few of my stories, I’ve just altered the local scale to get it where I want and put off worrying about the global issue, but it is something I need to address. One of my problems is that way back in 2001 when I was making the lowfi MS Paint digital versions of the maps I drew back in high school, the files were all at a 4:3 aspect ratio (little surprise given that was the aspect ratio of most screens at the time). However, most maps of Earth range from 2:1 to 16:9. That’s a fairly big difference. Also, the land-to-sea ratio is vastly different between my original maps and what we see on our own little blue ball. I basically had to shrink all the continents by half and now I need to reposition everything with the climate zones and whatnot in mind, etc. I’m still working on it, but once I get it all sorted out, the world is going to be in a much better shape.

However, now I need to get Chapter 19 of NagaTen finished. My original plan for the middle part of the chapter needs to be scrapped, so I’ve got to get that issue sorted at long last and write what needs writing, mostly before Wednesday, when work starts up in earnest. Wish me luck, folks, and stay tuned.

This update is rather late, but I feel I should still make a point to make a note of it. I did some work on Chapter 19 of EM3 and fiddled around in the peripheral materials. As mentioned on the main page, I’m dealing with some stuff right now, but hopefully things will settle down in the next week or two and I can start driving forward. Stay tuned.