I managed to wrap up Chapter 14 of CeleKing2 and start in on Chapter 15. Don’t know if I can finish Chapter 15 before it’s time to switch over, but we’ll see. Stay tuned.

I managed to finished Chapter 12 of CeleKing2 and make some headway in Chapter 14. If I really put my mind to it, I could get as far as finishing Chapter 15 before it’s time to switch over, but we’ll see. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 12 of CeleKing2. Didn’t quite finish it, but one more push should get the job done. Stay tuned.

I returned to Chapter 12 of CeleKing2 and made some good progress on it. In the course of writing, I was able to find a way out of a rather uncomfortable sequence and set up some of the events to come. Not a bad bit of work if I say so myself.

As I’ve noted previously, this story has put me in an awkward position frequently. Now, you might argue that as the author I can simply excise any material I’m uncomfortable with. This is true, but while I generally like to plan things out in my story, I also let things develop as they will, at times in quite unexpected ways. I feel this lends more naturalism to the narrative, but with the subject matter here, it still rubs me the wrong way a bit.

Anyway, the worse Yasuko has it, the more rewarding it’ll be when she comes out on top, right? I should be able to knock out 12 and 14 after another day’s work or so. Stay tuned.

I managed to make up for lost time working on Chapter 14 of CeleKing2. More progress like this and I’ll be a happy camper. Speaking of camping, my legs need another day to recover, so I should hopefully manage to make another decent showing progress-wise while I’m holed up in the apartment. Stay tuned.

I said I was going to set aside time for writing, but I didn’t quite meet that goal. I did do a little writing on Chapter 14 of CeleKing2, but that was only because I couldn’t see my 3DS screen in the sunlight while I was waiting on my train. My adventures for the day will have me out of action for the next day or two, so maybe I can pull myself away from my wall of games to actually make some real progress. Stay tuned.

In truth, I only did a negligible amount of writing on Chapter 12 of CeleKing1, but I did manage to get all caught up on my transcriptions. Just in time, too, as I’m cycling back around to TG. (In case you didn’t know, a healthy amount of progress I’d made four weeks ago was still sitting in my notepad.) Now let’s see if I can’t knock out two or three chapters. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 13 of CeleKing2. And now I have to think about getting through Chapter 12. You see, this part of the story is tricky for me because it touches on one of the challenges I face as a writer and that is how far I should go. I don’t have any interest in being “edgy” for edginess’ sake. You can have a strong impact when you push the envelope, but oftentimes it’s more effective to practice restraint.

Celestial society has a lot of depravity to it and highlighting that is one way of reinforcing Yasuko’s mission to bring them down, but at what point am I going too far? I have a feeling my threshold may actually be lower than a lot of people, so it may not be that much of a problem. It’s certainly not my intention to be exploitative. Part of the point is to show Yasuko’s strength in resisting and eventually overcoming those who mean to use her, but that may just come off as a fig leaf to try to lend some respectability to a string of abuses involving a 16-year-old girl.

Well, I guess all I can do is charge forward and if I think I’ve overstepped any boundaries or fallen short of what’s needed to really drive the point home, I can always send it through a round of rewrites. We’ll see what happens. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 13 of CeleKing2. The goal at this point is to finish it and Chapter 12 before the next cycle. Stay tuned.

I leapfrogged Chapter 12 of CeleKing2 to work on Chapter 13. Chapter 12 is a little tricky for me. I’ll talk more about it in a later post. Stay tuned.