I had a busy day. Not only was I implementing all those edits I’d been collecting over the week for TG, JJ1 and JJ2, but I also decided to actually make use of my word processor’s custom dictionary (a practice I fell out of because I got tired of starting the process all over again every time I had to migrate to a new machine). In this process, I caught some typos that would’ve slipped past me otherwise, not just in the three stories above but also in CeleKing1-3, EM1-3 and NagaTen. Just dealing with the Cross Arc was enough to keep me occupied for the time being, but I’ll deal with the other Arcs in the near future.

While I was doing that, I made a significant change. Well, it’s significant behind the scenes but only required one or two changes in the stories themselves. You see, back when I was writing CeleKing3, I decided that it would be simplest to use the year of adoption for the designation of Imperial weapons, i.e. the P777 was adopted in NE 777. However, CeleKing3 originally took place in NE 723. Yes, I could’ve just changed the designations of all the Imperial weapons, but instead I decided to shift the whole series one hundred years into the future. This might seem like a drastic step, but it actually made sense with the wider lore of the Cross Arc. You notice how there’s no mention of the Hybrids in the CeleKing series? Well, if I set the series after NagaTen (NE 745) and EM3 (NE 767), you can imagine a very good reason for that. Since there’s no mention of Hybrids in even later storied like JJ2 (NE 968) and TG (NE 1032), it starts to paint a bit of a picture. That being said, instead of changing a few weapon names in a couple chapters of CeleKing3, I had to go into the peripheral materials and change all the citations in the encyclopedia, timeline, genealogies, etc. Most of it was just applying a 100-year adjustment to the dates. I didn’t add any new members to the Imperial Family, though. Now the Yuanguang Emperor reigns for a whopping 167 years, but with juvenation therapy, it’s not all that wild. He dies at the age of 266, but Wuzong (who Yasuko killed in CeleKing2) was still rather peppy at 231 (though Erdi’s juvenation therapy had improved by then, so that makes a difference). Another significant change is that Princess Anmei (wife of the Yuanguang Emperor’s brother) wasn’t killed during the purge of the Sun Faction but instead in an assassination attempt on the future Emperor Wude. (She still gets posthumously honored as Empress Bian when Wude takes the throne, and it prompted me to add a whole thing where Wude’s successor Wuzheng was the son of a concubine and all the mess that led to. Fun times.)

I think I may start doing sweeps in the Space and Tellus Arcs and see what that brings up. I’ll then try to gear myself to focusing on TWH next week. Hopefully there won’t be any more head trauma cramping my style. Stay tuned.

I only did a little writing on Chapter 23 of EM3, but I did spend a fair bit of time sorting out the corrections I’ve been making to EM1 and EM2 and also writing on a little short that came to me in a moment of inspiration and may be developed into something at a later date. We’ll see how things go. Stay tuned.

I continued my progress on Chapter 23 of EM3. Much as I was going over the CeleKing series last week, I’m going over EM1 now to find stuff that’s slipped past my radar and I’ll be going through EM2 as well. More to come. Stay tuned.

I’ve been making good progress on Chapter 18 of TG. It’s a big chapter with a lot of action scenes to choreograph, so that’s always fun. The mascot is always critical of me when I try to act out such scenes for reference. ^_^;

In other news, I’m looking ahead for what will follow TG and CeleKing3 and I’m wanting to start in on JJ2 and EM2. To that end, I was rereading both novels. I have some long-standing typos I need to correct on the online version. Perhaps my favorite is “without a hunt of feat”.

I’ve got Internet access again, so that’ll probably have a negative impact on my productivity, but I’m going to try to keep things moving. More to come. Stay tuned.

By removing all distractions and focusing on nothing besides crossing the finish line, I managed to finish Chapter 25 of EM and with it, the novel. That makes eleven completed novels thus far. Clocking in at 55K, it’s a bit on the light side, but I’m not worried about the wordcount so much. CeleKing1 is going to take EM’s slot. Next go around, I plan on getting the outline squared away so I can move forward with a better idea of how to get from Point A to Point B. Before that, though, I’ll be switching over to TTWC3. Finishing Urgill’s section may be a little overly ambitious, but I’ll see what I can do. Stay tuned.

After making such good progress, I go and fall off the wagon for a couple days. Work was a big part of it and I did get some reviews written, so it’s not like I completely frittered away the time, though I will admit to getting drawn into the mobile game Granblue Fantasy after finding out about it from work. I managed to pull myself together a bit and make a little progress on Chapter 25 of EM. I’m going to try to get it finished before the switch, but I’m not going to make any promises. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapter 23 of EM, enough to make up for not doing any writing on Monday. I estimate it’ll take two or three days to finish the chapter and then it’s a matter of how long Chapter 25 will turn out to be, which I don’t even have any solid estimates for at the moment. Still, the goal is to be done by the end of the week. Stay tuned.

I had two rather hectic days in which I wasn’t able to get any writing done. (What little productive time I had was divided between catching up on my backlog of reviews and rolling out the update post.) Unwilling to let a full three days go by, I sacrificed some sleep time to make a little more progress on Chapter 23 of EM. I fell short of my goal of finishing the book this cycle, but I’ll get it next time for sure. Now it’s time to switch over to TTWC3, which will begin its serial run next week. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Chapter 23 of EM. Not quite as vigorously driving forward as I have in the past few days, but now that I’m done with work for the week, perhaps I can drive on ahead and finish the book. Stay tuned.

I managed to pretty well wrap up Chapter 26 and the epilogue of EM. If I was going chronologically, that’d be it, but I still have Chapters 23 and 25 to go. Finishing the book by the end of the weekend is entirely within the realm of possibility, so fingers crossed.

In other news, I’ve decided that besides kicking off CeleKing1, I’ll also be resuming “The Case of the Spotted Leopard” in December. The Ticonderoga Detective Agency series involves comparatively short stories which only amount to novellas or novelettes, so TCotSL will wrap the following January. I’ll probably follow it with another If Arc story, either “The Dragon Lady’s Dark Secret” or something else.

Well, that does it for gazing into the crystal ball. More to come. Stay tuned.