I made progress on Chapters 12 and 13 of NagaTen and did more work in the peripheral materials for WttW. I plan on making some progress on EM3, but I’d also like to finish those chapters of NagaTen as well while I’m at it. Stay tuned.

I at least accomplished one of my goals, rounding out Chapter 7 of NagaTen, but I didn’t touch on TWH any. You guessed it, I spent most of my time on WttW. However, rather than the peripheral materials, I spent a fair bit of time writing on RttW. I completed Chapter 1 and then got through Chapters 2 and 3 and started on Chapter 4. I may end up scrapping a fair bit of it, though. The main character does some things I’m not happy with. It sets the tone and establishes some concepts I want to convey, but I don’t like that he’s the one to do it. I need to try writing an alternate version and see how that fits. There’s a lot of juicy conflict that can be born of the original version, but I feel I’d lose the vast majority of the audience by doing it. I don’t know.

Anyway, I need to at least get the chapter of TWH that’s due out this weekend done. I’m sure WttW will continue to occupy plenty of my time as well. Stay tuned.

As you might imagine, WttW dominated my time, though I did managed to complete two of the three parts of Chapter 7 of NagaTen, so I almost achieved my stated goal. Other than working on the peripheral materials for WttW, I wrote a fair bit on Chapter 3 of RttW as the confrontation there is something I was itching to put down on (digital) paper.

Going forward, I’d like to finish that chapter of NagaTen and then probably go back to TWH, as I don’t have any buffer built up there, unlike the soon to be released EM3. We’ll see what I get accomplished. Stay tuned.

I finished Chapter 10 of NagaTen and made some decent headway on Chapter 11 as well. There was also a fair bit of assorted research that I’m sure will come in handy at some point. I’ll be switching over to TWH, so we’ll see what gets done there. Stay tuned.

I didn’t do that much actual story writing. I finished Chapter 9 of NagaTen and started on Chapter 10, but I did a lot of work in the peripheral materials. How much of this work will show up in the final product? Maybe none of it, but you know how I am about my worldbuilding. Even if you never see it, the fact that it’s in my head should help make the world more real. Anyway, I guess I’ll switch back over to TWH. Stay tuned.

I made some progress in Chapters 6 and 8 of NagaTen, but spent more time on the peripheral materials than anything. Worldbuilding for NagaTen is still a bit shallow compared to most of my other stories, so it’s as important to flesh that out as it is to write the story itself. I might still fiddle around with some stuff there, but the main goal will be to switch back to TWH. More to come. Stay tuned.

I was filling in some gaps in NagaTen and spending time in the peripheral materials, to include filling out more of the outline so we aren’t taking too much of an ad hoc approach to the story (though it still isn’t quite all set yet). I then found myself hit with a sudden spurt of inspiration and started writing on something that may fit into a future project. Once that was out of the way, I went back to TWH to go over what I’d already written and add just a little bit to Chapter 1. Now, given how little I worked on TWH this past week, I’m going to give it a full week’s attention before switching over again. That’s it for now. Stay tuned.

You can tell I had some days off last week, can’t you? Well, setting that aside, I worked on NagaTen. The outline for the story isn’t quite set yet, so chapter placement may vary by the time we begin serialization. In fact, I had to interrupt the writing of this very post to shift some things around to better fit a pattern for the structure. As it stands at the moment, I jumped ahead to Chapter 16 because I had the scene in my head and wanted to get it on the page. I then went back to work on filling in the gaps on Chapters 1 and 2. (The current Chapter 2 used to be Chapter 3 if I recall correctly.) Still have a bit to go on that. Anyway, I may still fiddle around with it, but I need to consider moving on to TWH. Stay tuned.

Nagareboshi Tennyo has gone into full production as the successor to JJ2’s slot in the queue. I’ve done some scattered bits of writing on it before now, but this past week I rounded out the prologue and worked on Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6. The details of the storyline haven’t quite solidified yet, but I’ll work on getting things hashed out in the near future. Next, I was thinking of sticking with the Gladius Cycle after KniTwi wraps, but I’m feeling like a change of pace, so I think I’ll start work on The Witch Hunters instead. Stay tuned.

Here I go and give you a glimmer of hope that things are going back on track only for me to go off the reservation again. While I haven’t made any story progress, it’s not like I’ve been doing nothing of relevance at all over the course of the past week and I might as well report on that. Besides more reviews, I’ve been working in the peripheral materials, particularly those of Junker Jorg and Nagareboshi Tennyo. In the latter case, my encyclopedia file was corrupted at some point in the two years since I last worked with it which had perpetuated to all my backups, so I had to start it all over again, reconstructing as many articles as I could from the timeline.

I’ve pretty well got JJ’s outline filled out and once I get all the chapters named, I can have a proper table of contents. On that note, I really need to do the same for Everyday Magic and TCotSL. Things to do to occupy my time. Hopefully I’ll get some actual story writing done this week. Stay tuned.