I was passing out more than was conducive to making good progress. I did do a bit more on Chapter 22 of NagaTen, and earlier in the day I’d done a bit of work on what will become either Chapter 17 or 18 of TWH. I need to make up for lost time and finish the former in time for Saturday’s deadline. Stay tuned.

I finally managed to finish Chapter 15 of TWH, as you’ve probably noticed, and while I was trying to get back into the groove for the next story writing cycles, I did some minor edits in EM3 and started in on Chapter 22 of NagaTen (as I had an idea in my head I wanted to get onto the page). I’ll be trying to finish Chapter 21 of NagaTen before the weekend now. It’ll involve breaking through a long-standing bit of writer’s block. Wish me luck. Stay tuned.

Another week, another bit of progress on Chapter 15 of TWH. I might as well continue to push onward with this one while an idea is relatively clear in my head as I’m pretty well stalled on the other three stories as well. I hold some home of summer vacation being an opportunity to clear my head and forge ahead, but we know that the more time I have, the less I tend to accomplish. Anyway, as term exams wind down, I have a bit less on my plate, so I’ll see if I can’t make the final push to get this one done. Stay tuned.

I just found a little bit of time to make minor progress in Chapter 15 of TWH. It’s better than nothing, I suppose. If only I got points for the time I was putting into TotK, right? Anyway, we’ll see if things change next week, but don’t hold your breath. Stay tuned.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been kept rather busy of late, hence the rather sparse updates, and what time I’ve had to myself these past few weeks has been mostly dedicated to playing Tears of the Kingdom (which is a fine way to unwind, by the way). Although I’ve gotten almost no writing done in all this time, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about things and wanting to put my nose back to the grindstone. And then we happen to have things lighten up for a bit and I was able to put in a decent bit of work on Chapter 15 of TWH. I’d like to have done more, but I suppose my own choice bear no small part of the blame for the lack of progress. Maybe I can turn things around. I’ve certainly been talking about it the past few months. It’d be nice to make something actually happen. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

So there’s been no activity here in a good month. I’ll be honest with you, I thought there would be some spells when I’d have nothing else to do but just sit and focus on writing, but there really wasn’t that much time when it was just me and my writing. I did a little bit of work in some of the peripheral materials, but no story progress. However, once I got back to Japan, I was struck by a bit of inspiration. If I didn’t have orientation for my new job on Friday, I may well have had Chapter 14 of TWH ready for the 25th, but I had to postpone until the following week. Still, I got it done, after all this time spent stuck in a rut, I got it done. “What about the next chapter?” you ask. Yes, well… about that…

Actually, that brings me to what I’ve been working on since then. You see, I have a bit of a scaling problem with the map of Tellus and that affects how I calculate travelling distances and whatnot in the stories. Now, with a few of my stories, I’ve just altered the local scale to get it where I want and put off worrying about the global issue, but it is something I need to address. One of my problems is that way back in 2001 when I was making the lowfi MS Paint digital versions of the maps I drew back in high school, the files were all at a 4:3 aspect ratio (little surprise given that was the aspect ratio of most screens at the time). However, most maps of Earth range from 2:1 to 16:9. That’s a fairly big difference. Also, the land-to-sea ratio is vastly different between my original maps and what we see on our own little blue ball. I basically had to shrink all the continents by half and now I need to reposition everything with the climate zones and whatnot in mind, etc. I’m still working on it, but once I get it all sorted out, the world is going to be in a much better shape.

However, now I need to get Chapter 19 of NagaTen finished. My original plan for the middle part of the chapter needs to be scrapped, so I’ve got to get that issue sorted at long last and write what needs writing, mostly before Wednesday, when work starts up in earnest. Wish me luck, folks, and stay tuned.

The disruption to the site of course impacted these updates, so even once the site came back up, I decided to wait and bundle both weeks into one big post. Well, the post isn’t going to be all that big, but we’re covering a large enough chunk of time. Now, the original task starting out was to get Chapter 13 of TWH ready to go. I was actually making good headway early in the week, so I started slacking off, wandering into peripheral materials and such, to the point where I would’ve been in a time crunch were it not for the site going down.

Actually, I merely thought I was almost done with the chapter. When I dove back into it, there ended up being quite a bit more to write. Happily, I got it all done with time to spare. Lovely. Moving into next week, it’ll be NagaTen’s turn. Stay tuned.

I’ve totally dropped the ball on these updates. Remember back when I did this on a daily basis? Maybe I need to get back into that habit. Anyway, looking back on the previous month, I did some work on Chapter 19 of NagaTen and finished Chapter 12 of TWH. I also did more work on the scenario of that DnD campaign I’ve been talking about (which, by the by, we didn’t even finish the character creation phase).

From the time this entry cuts off to present, I haven’t done any story writing. Whatever time I’ve had on my computer, I’ve mostly spent on compiling a 5e rulebook from available online sources. You can decide if this is a worthwhile use of my time or not (especially if my nieces decide the whole DnD thing is too boring to continue), but I would point out that this research will help me refine the game system of the WttW series, and it’ll play directly into both Dimwald and the GM and my potential project with the scenario I’ve been writing for the campaign.

Anyway, I’ll be getting back into the saddle with NagaTen this week. I’d like to at least finish Chapter 19. Stay tuned.

It would seem I forgot to make a post last week, so I’ve got two weeks of progress to get everyone caught up on. The week of Thanksgiving was actually pretty good for me as far as writing was concerned. Despite not having made much progress in a good while, I was able to get through Chapter 15 of EM3 (which was fairly short, to be honest) and then do most of Chapter 16 (which is significantly longer). Not a bad piece of work, if I say so myself, so I was confident I could bring that same energy to TWH when I switched over.

So I started off making some progress on Chapter 12 of TWH (and catching typos and such earlier in the manuscript as I was going back to cross-reference things), but work kept me hopping on Wednesday, other stuff took a big chunk of my time Thursday, and I don’t even know what happened to Friday, so by the time Saturday rolled around, I was nowhere near done with the chapter. I’ll have to sort it out later. In the meantime, keeping ahead of NagaTen is probably a good idea. Stay tuned.

I finished Chapter 17 of NagaTen (so that’ll be ready to go next cycle), did a little work on Chapter 12 of TWH, then spent most of my time penning that DnD scenario I’ve been working on. Now, doing all this for my niece is reason enough, but as I’ve hinted before that this may serve a dual purpose and you may see it in the future in a fun little project I’m considering. I need to make some headway in EM3 now. Stay tuned.