I made some good progress on Chapter 30 of Tico4, but it took me spending a fair bit of time in the peripheral materials beefing up the history of powered armor in the Earth Union military to get it done, all so I’d know which version of the HeavySuit the bad guy would be in. (It’s a Mark 5 prototype, in case you were wondering. Spoiler alert.) I suppose I’ll spend one more day on Tico4. I need to get everything ready for the TTWC1 finale this week. Stay tuned.

I made some good progress on Chapter 31 of Tico4. You might be wondering why I jump around like I do. I’m of the opinion that if progress slows on one front, move in on another. It’s only when I have no other choice that I push forward with gritted teeth. I suppose you could say that I eliminate the parts where inspiration comes easy so that my mind doesn’t have anywhere left to wander. Whether this is a particularly good strategy or not is a question I leave to the scholars.

I suppose I’ll stick with Tico4 another couple days before switching back over to TTWC2. Stay tuned.

I did some work on Chapter 30 of Tico4. At this point, it’s looking like the book will clock in under 70K, which is rather light, but it doesn’t seem particularly less dense than previous entries. I guess there are a number of rather short chapter and I suppose all that adds up, or in this case, doesn’t add up. Well, as I’ve said in my post on wordcount, I don’t really need to worry about it that much under the current model. Just need to write the book as long as it needs to be to hold the story. A solid week of work and I may be done. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapters 28 and 30 of Tico4. I just have four sequences to complete and the story will be done. TTWC2 has a little farther to go, but it won’t be all that much longer for it either and I’ll have my ninth and tenth novels completed. Not a bad bit of work. I’ve got to keep pushing forward, though. Stay tuned.

I wrote a little more on Chapter 28 of Tico4 and played around with Chapter 30 as well. I may opt for a little change of pace. I haven’t decided yet. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

I made a little more progress on Chapter 28 of Tico4. I’m a little tripped up at the moment on how to proceed in one section, so I may move on to the next one and come back to it later. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

I managed to pretty well wrap up the first section of Chapter 28 of Tico4. That leaves two more. So long as I keep meeting quota, I should have it done by the end of the week. Let’s see if I can pull it off. Stay tuned.

I’ve let myself get off track once again, but I was able to pull myself together to make some headway in Chapter 28 of Tico4. If I hadn’t been missing my quota so much lately, I’d probably be done with the book by now. I’m going to say that my recent media binging has served to recharge my creative batteries and you’re going to believe it because I have such an honest face. ^_^; If nothing else, I should want to meet quota because if I’m posting here every day, I have fewer spam comments to clear out.

If you’re wondering about the anniversary content I promised, it’s still pending. Kazuya scrapped the illustration he was working on in one of those fits of pique artists are known to fall prey to. Maybe an alternative can be slapped together in the next day or two. Stay tuned.

I’m under quota, but I managed to get the epilogue of Tico4 pretty well wrapped up and plugged a hole I found in Chapter 29. The overall wordcount for Tico4 is going to be a fair bit lower than expected. It should probably clock in around 65K when I’m done. Speaking of wordcount, I may do a supplemental post on the topic. Stay tuned.

On a bit of a whim, I decided to work on the epilogue of Tico4 and I just have the last little bit to go until it’s finished. Honestly, wrapping it up is a lot easier than tackling Chapter 28, so I might as well get it out of the way. Chapters 28 and 30 are the two big action chapters of the climax, so they are, of course, the most challenging. Have to knock them out eventually, though. Stay tuned.