I had a lot of stuff vying for my attention, what with my time on the clock running out and all. I barely made any progress two weeks ago working on Chapter 19 of NagaTen. I started to build up some momentum last week, only to stall out when I found that my originally intended direction for the chapter didn’t make much sense in practice. This left me with no idea of how to resolve the situation. Perhaps if my attention wasn’t going a dozen different directions at once, I may have figured it out. Contrary to expectations, things haven’t settled down as I thought they would, so we’ll see what comes of EM3, though I still have a fair bit of buffer left there. We’ll see what happens from here. Stay tuned.

The disruption to the site of course impacted these updates, so even once the site came back up, I decided to wait and bundle both weeks into one big post. Well, the post isn’t going to be all that big, but we’re covering a large enough chunk of time. Now, the original task starting out was to get Chapter 13 of TWH ready to go. I was actually making good headway early in the week, so I started slacking off, wandering into peripheral materials and such, to the point where I would’ve been in a time crunch were it not for the site going down.

Actually, I merely thought I was almost done with the chapter. When I dove back into it, there ended up being quite a bit more to write. Happily, I got it all done with time to spare. Lovely. Moving into next week, it’ll be NagaTen’s turn. Stay tuned.

The week before last, all I did was some work in the peripheral materials and some edits of existing manuscripts here and there, not really enough to warrant a post. I made more tangible story progress last week, getting a fair way into Chapter 18 of EM3 and doing a bit of work on Chapters 17 and 18 as well. And now I find myself facing a chapter of TWH that needs to get finished before the weekend. Will I pull it off? Stay tuned.

I’ve totally dropped the ball on these updates. Remember back when I did this on a daily basis? Maybe I need to get back into that habit. Anyway, looking back on the previous month, I did some work on Chapter 19 of NagaTen and finished Chapter 12 of TWH. I also did more work on the scenario of that DnD campaign I’ve been talking about (which, by the by, we didn’t even finish the character creation phase).

From the time this entry cuts off to present, I haven’t done any story writing. Whatever time I’ve had on my computer, I’ve mostly spent on compiling a 5e rulebook from available online sources. You can decide if this is a worthwhile use of my time or not (especially if my nieces decide the whole DnD thing is too boring to continue), but I would point out that this research will help me refine the game system of the WttW series, and it’ll play directly into both Dimwald and the GM and my potential project with the scenario I’ve been writing for the campaign.

Anyway, I’ll be getting back into the saddle with NagaTen this week. I’d like to at least finish Chapter 19. Stay tuned.

It would seem I forgot to make a post last week, so I’ve got two weeks of progress to get everyone caught up on. The week of Thanksgiving was actually pretty good for me as far as writing was concerned. Despite not having made much progress in a good while, I was able to get through Chapter 15 of EM3 (which was fairly short, to be honest) and then do most of Chapter 16 (which is significantly longer). Not a bad piece of work, if I say so myself, so I was confident I could bring that same energy to TWH when I switched over.

So I started off making some progress on Chapter 12 of TWH (and catching typos and such earlier in the manuscript as I was going back to cross-reference things), but work kept me hopping on Wednesday, other stuff took a big chunk of my time Thursday, and I don’t even know what happened to Friday, so by the time Saturday rolled around, I was nowhere near done with the chapter. I’ll have to sort it out later. In the meantime, keeping ahead of NagaTen is probably a good idea. Stay tuned.

I finished Chapter 17 of NagaTen (so that’ll be ready to go next cycle), did a little work on Chapter 12 of TWH, then spent most of my time penning that DnD scenario I’ve been working on. Now, doing all this for my niece is reason enough, but as I’ve hinted before that this may serve a dual purpose and you may see it in the future in a fun little project I’m considering. I need to make some headway in EM3 now. Stay tuned.

What with being sick and work keeping me hopping, it’s kept slipping my mind to write this post, so I figure I better get it knocked out before it slips my mind again. As you should already know, last week I finished Chapter 11 of TWH at long last. Honestly, I may well have written more on it in that one week than the three months leading up to it. It’s done now, at least. I also did one token line of dialog from Chapter 12 to get me warmed up for it. I need to give NagaTen some attention now. Finishing a chapter at least would be something. Stay tuned.

I started on Chapter 11 of TWH, but then got sidetracked. You see, my niece is curious about D&D, so I want to run a campaign for her, but as my only experience with D&D is a couple sessions over twenty years ago, I’m having to do a lot of research and also doing the worldbuilding for the campaign. Now, even if nothing comes of the campaign, all this legwork could turn into a later story. Anyway, I’m running dangerously short on buffer in NagaTen and EM3, so I’m going to have to do something about that (in addition to sorting out this daggone chapter of TWH). Stay tuned.

I was making some good progress on Chapter 11 of TWH, but not enough to get it done. Nothing to it but to keep whittling away at it. Stay tuned.

People who have been following me for a while know that my progress grinds to a crawl when I’m choreographing action sequences. I was making some progress on Chapter 11 of TWH, but not enough to actually get it finished.

I was also working on my reviews for the Summer 2022 anime season and got the odd inkling to reread the JJ books. I should probably give NagaTen and EM3 some love, even though I still have a comfortable buffer on those. I’ve got some other projects that’ll take some of my time as well, so we’ll see how I can juggle my time. Stay tuned.