I managed to hit the ground running with EM, wrapping Chapters 7 and 8 and making some headway into Chapter 9. I need to go back and deal with Chapter 6, though. I don’t know how to script the second half of the chapter. I just need to sit down and think about it a bit. At this rate, I may be able to wrap a couple more chapters before the weekend’s out. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

I managed to pretty well finish up Chapter 6 of JJ. I actually had to go back and make some modifications because I was glancing ahead at Chapter 8 and realized I forgot about somebody. Now I can pick up EM and hopefully get a chapter or two knocked out. Chapters 6 and 7 are fairly well along, so wrapping them up should be easy enough. Stay tuned.

I made some more progress on Chapter 6 of JJ. I may keep going to finish the chapter. After that, I’m going to spend some time on EM. In two weeks JJ will debut and then we’ll be alternating between it and EM. Hopefully I can maintain my pace of progress on both so there aren’t any interruptions, but even if there are, I have several Space Arc shorts to fill any gaps. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapter 6 of JJ. I don’t think I can finish it by the end of the weekend, but I can at least make that my aim. Stay tuned.

I’ve made more progress on Chapter 5 of JJ, a bit under quota, but that’s offset by a rather substantial amount of work I’ve been doing in the peripheral materials. You see, the encyclopedia for JJ was originally written to be concurrent with the story, but I’ve since modified it to cover events a good 30 or so years after the story ends. I don’t think it’s a big spoiler to say that Miravel, the world where JJ takes place, is on the block for Reclamation by the Empire. Well, after the events of the story, there’s a world war between the nations willing to submit and those who resist. Besides updating entries in the encyclopedia to account for the aftermath, I also drew up the revised world map. There were other things like expanded family trees and more fleshed out geographical information, but I know that story progress is what I’m supposed to be reporting first and foremost. I’m not that far off from finishing Chapter 5 and while finishing Chapter 6 over the weekend may be a stretch, I can at least make some good headway. Stay tuned.

I’ve made some progress in Chapter 5 of JJ. Another day should be enough to wrap things up unless I decide to add another section. I don’t think I will, though. If I could get through Chapter 7 before the weekend’s out, that’d be fantastic, but we’ll see how far I manage to get. Stay tuned.

With my stated goal of trying to finish Chapter 5 before the weekend’s out, it’s going to sound odd for me to say that I wrote on Chapter 8 instead. The reason for this is that I use OpenOffice Writer and the word counter doesn’t always work right, so I have to highlight the entire document. This then kicks me to the end and I work my way back up. I just happened to stop on Chapter 8 on the way and decided to write on it for a while. I doubt I’ll finish Chapter 5, but maybe I can at least get one or two sections done before I switch over to something else. Stay tuned.

I finished up Chapter 4 and did some work on Chapter 5 of JJ. I’ve expanded the scope of the latter, so finishing it this weekend may be out of reach. If I can manage the time after finishing my homework, I’ll try to make it happen. Stay tuned.

I got Chapter 4 of JJ all but finished, just lacking a good paragraph or two. I also drafted a complete roster of the crew of the Junker Jorg‘s rival, the Junker Woland. I may not actually need this information much in the course of writing the book, but it’s nice to have. Also did some writing in the peripheral materials. Looks like my goal for the week is perfectly obtainable. Stay tuned.

With all the homework I have to do and the craziness of the weekend, it’s little surprise I haven’t been able to make time to get much writing done. It would seem that Wednesday is my primary window of opportunity, where I have a 90-minute break between classes. Now that things are leveling out, I should be able to get writing done on Friday through Sunday as well and maybe I can start to eke out a little more beyond that. We’ll see.

On to the subject at hand, I made a little more progress on Chapter 4 of JJ. Still just a little bit shy of finishing it. If I could get through Chapters 4 and 5 by the end of the weekend, that’d be great. Stay tuned.