I inched my way to finish Chapter 14 of JJ2 around Tuesday, then switched gears to working on Chapter 40 of Tellus. It’s slow going and it’d be wonderful if I’d cut out the distractions and throw myself into my writing for a change. Well, hopefully I can at least have that chapter of Tellus ready for next week. Stay tuned.

No doubt to the exasperated eyerolls of the audience, I can now say that I’ve finally wrapped Chapter 39 of Tellus. Depressingly, it only took a single paragraph from where I left off Wednesday. Anyway, it’s done and now I’ve got to give myself some breathing room in JJ2. Stay tuned.

Saturday I spent a ridiculous amount of time tweaking the positions on the sigil of omnimancy because I was trying to make all the elements overlap in a thematically appropriate way. It was important to have this all ironed out and finalized for the choreography of Chapter 39 of Tellus, which has been bedeviling me all this time. One of the four tetrads doesn’t quite work right, but I’ve got 12 of the 16 elements right where I want them, so that’s going to have to suffice.

I made a little progress on the chapter itself Sunday, then floundered about the next couple days until the floodgates appeared to open. The chapter’s title is “Convocation of Chaos” and one of the main problems that’s been sticking me this long is that the scene is, well, chaotic. There’s too much going on at once, which led me to conclude that I just needed to take advantage of the limits of the active lead’s POV and just bring things to an end. I might’ve been able to pull together the focus to end it, but then an interruption came up and I’ve let myself get derailed again.

Now that I’ve burned up my lead time in JJ2, I really have to get back on the ball. My resident productivity expert doesn’t help, but I don’t really have any business blaming her. I’ve got a three-day weekend coming up, so maybe I can turn things around. Stay tuned.

After taking a few days off from writing, I made some decent progress on Chapter 39 of Tellus Sunday, only to accomplish nothing on Monday (even falling asleep before I could complete the simple task of transcribing what I’d written the day before, though I did do some work in the peripheral materials), and then I made only minor progress after that. In short, I don’t have the chapter done, so it looks like the schedule is going to be shifted again. I’d really like to work on something else for a change, but once I get a chapter out, before I know it, it’s time for the next one. Soon I’m going to feel the pinch in JJ2 and CeleKing3 as well, to say nothing of the novels that are in the hopper next. So it goes. I can only do what I can do. Stay tuned.

It hasn’t been a lot of progress, but I have been working on Chapter 39 of Tellus. I’d talked about switching over, but I do need to have the chapter finished before next week. At this rate, I’m going to burn through my lead time in the other books and really be stumped. We’ll see what I end up doing. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 38 of Tellus (obviously, as it’s now up on the site) and have made some progress on Chapter 39. The idea is to try and finish Chapter 39 this weekend before moving on. Stay tuned.

After being stuck so long on how to rescript a particular scene, I’ve been clawing my way forward on Chapter 38 of Tellus, but even after two days of rather decent progress, it looks like I’m going to miss the mark again. At very least, the release of the chapter will take another day, but I may just go ahead and push it to next week so I’m not rushing it out the gate. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

After days of writer’s block holding me back, I was able to resume progress on Chapter 38 of Tellus. It wasn’t enough to get the chapter out for the deadline, though, so I’m just going to have to push it back to next week. And if that wasn’t enough, I’ve been chewing through my lead time on CeleKing3, so I need to be thinking of that as well, but for the moment, it’s Tellus where I’m behind, so that’s where I need to continue to focus. I’ve just got to put my nose to the grindstone. More to come. Stay tuned.

I did some work on Chapters 38 and 39 of Tellus. I’d like to keep working on them through the week, but I may also stray in a few other directions. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 37 of Tellus, but rather than try to release it in the wee hours of the morning, I decided to let it sit for a day so I’d have a slightly better chance of it not being riddled with embarrassing typos once I post it. Now if we can just get another chapter or two knocked out by the week’s end. Stay tuned.