I made some progress on Chapter 2 of TKoH, just a bit under quota, but when I tried to get some more written, being only half-awake and much pestered by the office productivity specialist, I decided to pack it in. I’m pretty confident I can get the chapter done by the deadline, so we’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

Well, I didn’t make any progress on the story. Besides the bucket problem I was still working to resolve, I then had to deal with my computer not letting me save because I was supposedly out of memory, despite having nearly 8 gigs available. I had been running a dual-boot machine, but I never use the Windows partition, so I decided to nuke that and open up that half of my hard drive. Doing backups, making a new boot disk, then reapportioning the hard drive took up much of the evening, with the rest mostly spent with me being unconscious. This of course means that I won’t be making my deadline, so we’ll just have to push it to next week. I will try to continue my work over the weekend as my energy level and the office productivity specialist permit.

In other news, while my kiddos have been doing in-class work on their group projects, I’ve been reading the Eddas, so that will be helping with TKoH. That’s at least something productive. Anyway, I’ll be getting back to work. Stay tuned.

So it was Friday evening and I was all ready to work through the night to get the chapter done and ready for release on Saturday. Can you guess what happened next? I was out like a light before 2000 and didn’t come back around until around 0100.

Reader: “So when you came back around, you put in a few hours’ work at least, right?”

Me: *averts eyes*

Reader: “You just wrapped up your dailies and went to bed, didn’t you?”

Me: -_-

Well, even though I knew I wasn’t going to meet the deadline, I did get a solid bit of work in on Chapter 2 of TKoH. I’m not going to shoot for a third attempt to get it released, though. As per my (mostly) standard operating procedure, I’ll be switching over to CoP and try to get that chapter of TKoH knocked out when its turn comes up again. We’ll see how that goes. Stay tuned.

The grind of the week has really taken its toll, but I did manage to get some more writing on Chapter 2 of TKoH. I was also doing additional research on bark tanning. Watching a full video revealed some things the text descriptions I read didn’t mention, so I had to go back and make some changes for accuracy. I’m probably going to have to power through Friday night if I want any chance of meeting the deadline at this rate. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

I didn’t accomplish a thing Tuesday, conking out at an unseasonably early hour, and then did the same Wednesday after all the fun and games of the first round of entrance exams. However, this time, when I came back around, I was wanting to finish a limited story event that was ending Thursday, so I did get a little writing done on Chapter 2 of TKoH while I was doing that. I’m going to have to pick things up if I’m going to meet my deadline, but there’s a lot of work-work to be done, so I’ll try to balance the two. Stay tuned.

I came in just under quota on Chapter 2 of TKoH. I had to devote some time to learning about taxidermy. (If you already know the source material, you know why this would be relevant.) Specifically, I had to research how to tan hides out in the bush. May or may not prove useful in the post-apocalypse. Anyway, I’ll be juggling this and other stuff over the next few days, so we’ll see if I can meet the deadline. Stay tuned.

I didn’t figure the couple sentences I wrote yesterday was quite justified a post, as most of my writing time was devoted to the latest batch of reviews. I did manage to do a little more writing on Chapter 2 of TKoH, but it was rather late at the time, so I didn’t accomplish all that much. Still, progress is progress. Since tomorrow is Coming of Age Day, I’ll try to at least get quota done before spending a few hours on Rogue Galaxy. Stay tuned.

Writing the previous entry here gave me a bit of a kick in the tail, so I managed to get a little writing done on Chapter 2 of TKoH. Under quota, yes, but it’s gotten the ball rolling. I may not make this week’s deadline, but I can get myself on track to hitting next week’s. While I intend to continue to make progress over the weekend, I also need to work on reviews and such as we’ve been two weeks without a review post. Stay tuned.

I was about the write a rather lengthy explanation of why I haven’t made any progress over the past few days, but that didn’t seem to be the most productive use of the space here. Anyway, I haven’t managed to get the time together to get any writing done, but I did manage to do some related work by reading through the Reginsmál, which is the primary source being adapted into Chapter 2 of TKoH, as well as the Grípisspá, which is going to be used for Chapter 4, and the Grímnismál because I figure Odin would be going under one of his assumed names and I thought I’d see if it’d be appropriate for him to use Grimnir in this situation. There was other additional research being done and some writing in the peripheral materials, so all good for laying the groundwork but nowhere close to getting me close to meeting the deadline.

I’m obviously going to have to push the deadline to next week. There’s plenty of work-work to be done with the start of the new term, but I’ve got a three-day weekend coming up, so I’ll aim to defy the odds and get things going. Stay tuned.

I was doing more work to square things away in the TKoH outline. I’ve committed to bringing in elements of the Nibelungenlied up to the point of Sigurd’s death. From there, I’m thinking of doing a sequel tentatively titled The Curse of the Niflungs to chronicle the downfall of the Gjukings after Sigurd’s death. There may or may not be another one or two in the offing. I realize that despite being under the umbrella of the Brynhildr Cycle, these well be more tangentially related to Brynhild herself, but it all forms a part of a wider whole. I’ll continue to work on squaring things away and we’ll see where it gets me. Stay tuned.