Yes, I missed a day, but then I came back to do a little work on Chapters 1 and 2 of EM. I’ll try to keep at it, but the lure of FE14 is strong indeed. Stay tuned.

I fell off the wagon hard last week. Blame FE14. I barely did anything else. I’m running all three campaigns simultaneously, so when I get stuck on one, I just go on to the other. It really makes it harder to put down. Anyway, because I refrain from video games on Sundays, I was able to get a little writing done and hopefully I can start balancing my activities a little more. I made some progress on Chapter 1 of EM. It’s mostly just narrative in the latter half I need to fill out and I’ll be done with it. I believe I’m up to Chapter 4 on JJ, so I need to get at least as far in EM before switching over. Stay tuned.

I have yet to truly get back into the swing of things. Since the previous post, I had done some more work in the peripheral materials and went to naming the chapters of EM and JJ (not as trivial a thing as you might think). However, it wasn’t until yesterday that I actually made some story progress, the first in over a month. I did some writing on Chapter 4 of JJ and worked on putting together the crew roster of the Junker Jorg‘s nemesis, the Junker Woland. Maybe this is the start of me moving forward again. Maybe. Stay tuned.

It’s been a while since I last had something to post here. Haven’t really found the wherewithal to work on my stories much lately. I’ve been writing reviews for whatever that’s worth, but it almost feels like I’ve been avoiding them. I seem to be pulling out of it, though. Some inspiration started to stir and I worked on the outline for Junker Jorg a bit. Have most of the overall plot sketched out. I’m thinking that once Tico4 wraps, I might alternate between JJ and Everyday Magic. I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me yet if that’s going to happen, though. Maybe I’m getting to the point where that can happen. Stay tuned.

I managed to make up for lost time by doing a fair bit of writing on EM. I still have gaps in the story I need to figure out how to fill, but maybe that’ll come to me as I work my way down the line. Stay tuned.

Though I didn’t meet quota, I did do some writing on Everyday Magic (which I’ll be referring to as EM for short from now on). Most of my work was done in the peripheral materials, to include making a temporary map of Altamira, the world where EM takes place. An interesting quirk of the planet is that almost all the water is underground, meaning no seas or oceans, and the only habitable land lies between the equator and the 54th Parallel of the northern hemisphere. One of the themes with these post-apocalyptic world is that as society reforms, it makes a rough analog to Earth, supposedly something to do with genetic memory and the collective unconscious, or at least that’s what Imperial propaganda asserts. (“These worlds, these people long for Mother Earth and so we shall return them to her,” etc.) I have a lot of lore to fill in, but I need to make a point to do more story writing. Stay tuned.

I wrapped up the one Space Arc short I hadn’t quite finished the day before, but that didn’t amount to much, so I then found myself working on Everyday Magic. Perhaps if I could get at least a ten-chapter headstart, I might alternate between EM and Junker Jorg. Then again, it may be better to focus on finishing one serial run rather than having two Cross Arc stories running at the same time. I’ll think about it. Stay tuned.

Hisashiburi again. I think things are finally settling down a bit. I’ve been so fixated on the fact that I haven’t been making much progress on actual story content that I forgot that missing quota doesn’t preclude one of these posts if some other form of progress is made. This is a bit of a spoiler for the upcoming anniversary post, but I intend to restart Everyday Magic once Tico4 has run its course. This of course means I need to start making headway with the story and that’s what I tried to do last week with little success. However, just because I only succeeded in writing a couple hundred words in all that time doesn’t mean that appreciable progress wasn’t made. I have moved the outline along, which is a big part of getting the overall plot hammered out, and I’ve done a fair bit of work in the peripheral materials, which is key for worldbuilding. It still isn’t progress to the degree I’d like to see, but it’s not nothing.

I’ll probably continue some of this work on the side, but I’m going to mostly switch over to Tico4 and hopefully get at least one more chapter done this week. Stay tuned.