I almost forgot to post this. Yesterday was a bit of a grab-bag. I played around in the peripheral materials and wrote a bit on a few different shorts here and there. Nothing particularly focused or goal-oriented. Sometimes that’s not a bad thing, though.

I started by resuming work on Ionathas’ Chapter 2 of TTWC1 (which is turning out to be a fair bit longer than I originally intended), played around with a related side story, and even found myself doing a little writing on The Witch Hunters, all the while doing a fair bit of work on the peripheral materials. All in all, a rather productive day, but perhaps I should’ve been devoting a little of that time and energy toward other things. So it goes. I hope to at least finish Ionathas’ Chapters 2 and 3 this week and after that we’ll see if I continue on a bit further or switch back to Tico3. Stay tuned.

Still chugging along with Chapter 26. Did a bit of a detour and jotted down some dialog for a potential short. I don’t plan on developing the latter too much at the moment, but I figured I should go ahead and commit some of it to (virtual) paper. As for the former, the ending sequence is going to be a little tricky to choreograph, but I’ll get it figured out. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish up that short I’ve been working on and made some headway filling out the narrative in Ionathas’ Chapter 2 of TTWC1. I’ll probably finish up the chapter before switching over to restart Tico3. Stay tuned.

I managed to get through the second to last segment of the Space Arc short I’ve been working on. I should have it done in the next day or two and ready for next week’s update. I think I’m coming closer to a solution for Chapter 23 of Tico3, so maybe I can have it ready for the Space Arc update after next. We’ll see how things go. Stay tuned.

Still inching along in that short. Although I’ve been too busy to get all that much writing done lately, this weekend is shaping up to be a little less intensive, so maybe I can get a little more done.

The site’s anniversary is coming up Monday, so I’ve got to get an idea sent off to Kazuya so we’ll have an illustration and I have to think about what I’m going to report as the goals for the new year.

As a side note, four-year-old Lydia called her dad “Poppy”. I just find that incredibly cute. ^_^

A little more progress on that short. Not a lot else going on. As always, other projects are consuming most of my time. I’ll continue to inch along as I can. Stay tuned.

I actually had made some progress on the short I’ve been working on, but I felt it was too insubstantial to warrant a post. Also, to be honest, the string of little stubby posts was getting rather bland and felt like a waste of everyone’s time.

All this being said, I’ve made more significant strides this time around and also did a little dialog for yet another short. I swear, I’m going to have just about every significant episode of every major character’s life chronicled by the time I’m done. ^_^;

Something that I feel like noting is a little timeline shift I had to do last week. The short I’m focusing on deals with Lydia’s parents. (Yes, parents plural. Her late mother features prominently in this one.) Anyway, I was looking at the dates for everything and I realized that I had them meeting a year after Leia was born. Oops. ^_^; Yes, I had to do a little shifting there. At first I considered moving Leia’s birth up a year, but her time at the Academy has to be where it is, so instead I just made Luka and Annabeth (the folks) a year older and had them first meet in 079 instead of 080.

Why do the years Leia was at the Academy need to be fixed, you ask? Well, she was part of the pilot program (pun intended) for using superlights against the Shellies. I mean, yes, they did crossrate a number of aerial pilots for space operations, but members of Leia’s class were among the first to be trained from the ground up specifically for superlights. Fun fact: A classmate in this same program, one Stalinslav Zhukov. Who’s that? You’d know him better as Pride, the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins. Yes, it’s a pretty small world in the Tico series. I’ve got a pretty long list of all the little confluences that occur. It’s pretty interesting, really, to me at least.

Anyway, it’s looking like we’ll have another short tomorrow. Stay tuned.

More progress on that Space Arc short. Not a lot, mind you. Other work is consuming most of my time, but if my calculations hold, I’ll have it ready by the time it’s needed. Stay tuned.

No work on Tico3, but I did continue to work on this one Space Arc short that might show up in a few weeks. Stay tuned.