I made a little progress on Chapter 3 of TBP. A little under par, but I’ll be making up for it in the coming days. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 2 of TBP and I would’ve done more if it wasn’t for the small boss insisting rather vociferously that I go to bed. More of the time was spent working on the outline some more to fill in underdeveloped parts of the story. I really don’t know what I was thinking when I last redid the thing. A lot of plotlines were given no setup whatsoever. Now I think I have it pretty well set. All the pieces should come together in a reasonable fashion. You might argue I’ve got too many plotlines, but this isn’t too different from most of my other stories, for better or for worse. We’ll see how the narrative flows as we continue to develop the story. With that, it’s time to move on to CeleKing1. The goal is to get at least two chapters knocked out this week. We’ll see if I can pull it off. Stay tuned.

I did about half quota on Chapter 10 of TBP one day and a scant few lines on Chapter 11 the next. Fortunately, I have an evening wide open to focus on making up for lost time.

In other news, in case anyone was wondering, I succeeded in unlocking SR Ranko in GBF. I usually don’t put that much time, effort or resources into the Kosenjou because I’m not all that interested in trying to get the Jutenshu at present, but I wanted to grind the Ranko summon up to Level 100 as quickly as I could. SR Ranko is interesting in that her third ability doesn’t unlock until Level 65. (Normally the unlock happens at Level 35 for SR charas.) I’m not a big fan of the internal monologue that translates her usual dialog. Her character is more interesting without it. (Although it does make it sound like she’s possessed the original body, which is thematically appropriate, I guess.) Oh, and just a bit of random advice to all you out there, if you find yourself transported to a fantasy world, you may not want to go around declaring yourself the Demon Queen Brunnhilde. You may find yourself the target of jobber adventurers looking to carve a name for themselves out of your hide.

Well, one more day of TBP and I’ll be back on CeleKing1. Stay tuned.

I only made half quota working on the newly inserted Chapter 10 of TBP. Oddly, the chapter was in my old outline but not the new one. I can’t imagine why I took it out because it establishes one of the players in the great game. Otherwise you just have him showing up out of nowhere near the end. Well, who knows what I was thinking at the time? Anyway, here’s to doing a little better next time around. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Chapter 14, a new insertion as I realized that I’d brought Umbriel into the story and then promptly did nothing with him until the end. Oops. ^o^ Well, that’s been resolved. Maybe when Sunday rolls around, I can start working on some chronological progress. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Chapter 9 of TBP. Yes, I know that’s a jump ahead in the story, but it happened to be the scene that came to mind. One of the problems I have is that I already have bits and pieces written all over the place, but I don’t have access to the content while I’m at work, which can result in issues of overlap and such that I have to iron out later. So it goes. More to come. Stay tuned.

I wrapped up Chapter 1 of TBP and did a little writing on Chapter 2 as well. Tempting as it is to stick with it, I’m going to switch over to CeleKing1 as planned as it’s closer to launch and I need to give myself as much lead time as I can. Ideally, I want to get at least two chapters knocked out this week. Stay tuned.

I already made the announcement on Twitter, but I put the finishing touches on Akasame’s epilogue of TTWC3, completing the novel. Yay. Just for fun, let’s rank the 24 leads of the TTWC series based on the word count of their sections. The results may surprise you (and may not).

1. Daphne (TTWC1)              – 20092
2. Carpos (TTWC3)               – 14176
3. Xanthe (TTWC1)               – 12688
4. Ionathas (TTWC1)            – 12074
5. Simona (TTWC3)              – 11331
6. Akasame (TTWC3)            – 11094
7. Solon (TTWC1)                  – 10051
8. Cronos (TTWC1)               – 10513
9. Urgill (TTWC3)                  – 10121
10. Mab (TTWC3)                  – 9756
11. Corona (TTWC1)             – 9466
12. Rowland (TTWC3)           – 9291
13. Scipio (TTWC3)               – 8603
14. Garm (TTWC3)                – 8028
15. Caligo (TTWC2)               – 7656
16. Xenomachos (TTWC1)    – 6936
17. Medusa (TTWC2)            – 6770
18. Orguz (TTWC2)               – 6556
19. Xorgoth (TTWC2)           – 6024
20. Arachne (TTWC2)          – 5512
21. Python (TTWC2)             – 5492
22. Gamaliel (TTWC1)          – 5200
23. Monarch Lich (TTWC2)  – 4987
24. Dox (TTWC2)                  – 4002

Hmm. I think my Elf-bias is showing. Given that Daphne’s section has the most bearing on the Umbriel Cycle at large, it’s little surprise she has the largest share, but some of these surprise me at where they stand relative to the others. I’m sure I have a round of rewrites in my future, especially to expand on TTWC2, but this is what things look like now as of Version 3 of the story.

I didn’t do much writing on TBP other than a couple lines in Chapter 1. All I did for the most part is review the prologue and what I’d written thus far on Chapter 1. I intend to do a little more writing on it and then switch over to CeleKing1. Stay tuned.

I made good progress on Akasame’s epilogue of TTWC3, not quite finishing it, but there’s only a little bit to go. Stay tuned.

Well, after a disappointing start to the week, I managed to turn things around mightily, making up for all that lost time and blazing through Akasame’s Chapters 4 and 5 and making some decent headway into his epilogue as well. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be done with his section and TTWC3 as a whole in one more sitting. Quite satisfactory. This means I can move forward with TBP this week. Looking forward to that. Stay tuned.