I was passing out more than was conducive to making good progress. I did do a bit more on Chapter 22 of NagaTen, and earlier in the day I’d done a bit of work on what will become either Chapter 17 or 18 of TWH. I need to make up for lost time and finish the former in time for Saturday’s deadline. Stay tuned.

It was 2300 and I was exhausted, so I decided to lie down for a bit. I woke up around 0300. I had to be up at 0630 for work and I could very easily had gone right back to sleep, but I hadn’t gotten to the day’s quota yet. It was tempting to do my usual thing and just put it off, but my pride couldn’t very well allow me to break my vow on Day 2, so I made some more progress on Chapter 22 of NagaTen (and my mindset happened to be very appropriate for that particular chapter). Anyway, let’s see if I can’t get my writing in any sooner tomorrow. Stay tuned.

The devastating realization that it’s been over two months without a lick of progress on any of my stories seems to have been the kick in the pants I needed to start reforming my ways. Yes, my current job has me a lot busier than I’ve been in a long time. Yes, summer vacation was a wild whirlwind that barely left me with a moment to breathe. Yes, I’m exhausted more often than not. However, if writing is truly my calling as I say it is, then I’ll make it work anyway. Now, we’ll see how long I can keep this up, but I’m returning to my 500-word-a-day quota and I’m going to try to make these posts daily and also try to do a special post like the Character Spotlights once a week. Will this get me back on track at long last? We’ll see.

As for my inaugural effort, I picked up Chapter 22 of NagaTen with the intention of getting it done by the weekend. At the rate I’m going, the final wordcount is going to to come up rather short, around 40K, but as I’ve said before, I write stories the length they need to be. If conventional publication comes up at a later date, I may have to do some reworking to the manuscript, but for now, I’ll let the chips fall where they may. Until next time. Stay tuned.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.