Another day of minor progress on Chapter 14 of EM. That goal of getting through Chapter 15 before the weekend’s out seems rather remote, but I managed to get all my homework knocked out, so that means there’s more time to focus on writing. We’ll see what I can get accomplished. Stay tuned.

After so many days of brisk progress, it’s a little disappointing to report that I only managed a couple sentences of Chapter 14 of EM because I didn’t get to writing until I was starting to conk out.

Earlier in the day I did some work to detail an idea that may or may not ever see the light of day. Basically, I took elements of Jurassic World and adapted them to a Fifth Empire story about combat robots. You see, I really love the dynamics of the raptor pack in JW and I started thinking about an analog that would allow for human communication while still being removed from humanity, which led me to a dangerous combat AI rather unscrupulously developed and narrowly contained. Instead of a theme park gone awry, we have a military R&D program that goes out of control when the boundaries are pushed too far. Should the idea get further development, it’ll only retain a superficial relation to its inspiration, but I thought I’d bring it up since I didn’t have much other progress to report.

In other news, I may use the coming Thanksgiving break to launch the Else Arc I’ve mentioned in the past. I’ll still retain the “Five Arcs” label so I don’t wreck any links or search engine results, though. The Else Arc with be something of an unofficial Arc. However, as I allow myself total creative freedom with it, there’s some great potential. Stay tuned.

I pretty well wrapped up both Chapters 12 and 13 of EM and started in on Chapter 14 as well. This has been a rather productive week thus far. At this rate, the prospect of finishing a novel a year or even two novels a year doesn’t seem that unrealistic. I’ve got a fair bit of homework to do, so progress might slack off a bit over the weekend, but we’ll see how much more I can get done. We’ll set Chapter 15 as our goal before it’s time to switch over. Stay tuned.

I pretty well wrapped up Chapter 12 of EM and did some work on Chapter 13 as well. I’m toying with the idea of a sequel, but there are no serious plans as of yet. I’m not the sort of person to build up a world for only one outing, after all. Anyway, more to come. Stay tuned.

Made some good progress on Chapter 12 of EM. I’m getting ever closer to the halfway mark and if I can keep going at this rate, I should pass it easily enough. Stay tuned.

I wrapped up Chapter 10 of EM and did some work on Chapter 12 as well. More to come. Stay tuned.

I managed to get Chapter 11 of JJ pretty well wrapped up and got started on Chapter 12. I’ve been really pleased with my progress this week and if I can keep going at this rate, I’ll be done with the book in a couple months. It’ll probably take longer than that, but it’s got me thinking about what I’m going to do next. I guess I could put CeleKing on the docket next, but if I’m going to continue the trend of running two Cross Arc stories, I’m going to have to think of what else I want. Maybe I should be considering a different Arc. Starting an If Arc story would be nice. Maybe I should consider the Earth Arc, which has remained largely untouched in the site’s lifetime. Things to consider. It won’t be until well into next year when JJ and EM wrap. Speaking of which, I’ll be working on JJ one more day and then switch over to EM. Stay tuned.

I made some more progress on Chapter 11 of JJ. I’m more or less done with the chapter’s dialog and just need to fill in the narrative. Should be able to finish it before the weekend’s out. Stay tuned.

I managed to pretty well wrap up Chapter 10 of JJ and make some good headway into Chapter 11. It’s really been nice moving things along these past few days, but that progress may slack off a bit as I deal with a cluster of assignments that’ve come up. I’ll see what I can get done, though. Stay tuned.

I pretty well finished up Chapters 8 and 9 of JJ and made some progress on Chapter 10 as well. It feels nice to move along at a good clip. More to come. Stay tuned.