I pretty well finished Garm’s epilogue and made more progress on his Chapter 3 as well. I have a decent chance of finishing at least two more chapters this cycle. The goal of finishing Garm’s section by the end of next cycle seems entirely plausible. Here’s to making it happen. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Scipio’s Chapter 4 of TTWC3. Yes, I know. I’m not going to finish Garm’s section by writing on Scipio’s, but I gotta go where the inspiration takes me. Things should be settling down a bit, so I’m hoping that translates to more writing time. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Garm’s epilogue and Scipio’s Chapter 4 of TTWC3. I’ve got two cycles to meet my goal of finishing Garm’s section before TTWC3 starts its serial run. Will I pull it off? That remains to be seen. Honestly, I feel I could finish Scipio’s section sooner, to the point that I’m tempted to switch their order. Maybe I’ll consider it. However, if I just write the dang thing, it won’t be an issue. We’ll see what I can get done. Stay tuned.

I didn’t finish any chapters, but I did make some respectable progress on Garm’s Chapter 3 of TTWC3. With the groundwork I’ve laid, I could probably wrap two or three chapters next cycle. In the meantime, I’m going to be moving on to JJ. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Scipio’s Chapters 2 and 3 of TTWC3. You might be wondering why I’d be spending time with him when I have yet to finish Garm’s section. I just happened to have some ideas for Scipio’s section and decided to jot them down while I had them. I’ll see if I can’t go back to Garm and get at least one chapter finished before I switch over. Stay tuned.

I jumped ahead a bit to do some work on Garm’s Chapter 3 and Scipio’s epilogue of TTWC3. More time was spent filling out details of the battle record of the Darklands campaign. With TTWC1 and TTWC2 complete, filling out this information only serves to satisfy my own micromanaging tendencies. Maybe I can at least get one chapter finished before the weekend’s out. Stay tuned.

You can be forgiven for thinking I fell off the face of the earth (except for the fact that the site updates still came out on time). I was kept busy by schoolwork and work-work (thanks to my recent return to gainful employment), so I didn’t really have any time for writing. I managed to break the dry spell by doing a little work on Garm’s Chapter 2 of TTWC3 and some work on an If Arc TTWC spinoff I have yet to reveal on the site. While I’ve almost completed my work allotment for the week, I still have a fair bit of homework ahead of me. I’ll see what I can manage, but don’t expect too much. Stay tuned.

I’ve stated before that I have trouble clicking with most of the leads of TTWC2, which is a terrible thing for the author to say, but Xargos is one of my favorites. While Orguz is the most sympathetic and Caligo the most interesting (particularly with regard to his backstory), Xargos is one of the most fun as a total dirtbag villain. Vain, greedy, cruel and cowardly, there’s almost nothing redeemable to him and he’s so blatant that he’s pretty fun to write. Now, perhaps the most fun villain to write was Brenok from the KoG series because you take all the above vices and add diabolical cunning. Speaking of which, the fact that Xargos veers into being stupid evil is another part of his charm.

As despicable as he is, I actually feel a bit sorry for Xargos. He’s so arrogant and he’s so much dumber than he thinks he is that he just blindly charges down the path to his own destruction. Compare him with Ophis Python, who was just kinda pathetic. For Python, circumstances were largely out of his control, but Xargos is almost entirely the author of his own ruin. It’s a bit sad, but you have a hard shedding any tears genocidal psychopath.

Well, that’s it for now. We’ve just got one more to go and that’ll be it for TTWC2. Stay tuned.

I managed to get a little writing done on Garm’s Chapter 2. Under par but more than I was expecting to do. With the site’s anniversary coming up, I’ve been looking out for the plans for the year. I’ll discuss them more in the anniversary post, but I’m looking forward to it.

I’m wondering if I should also add a bit of retrospective on the past year. I know I’ve made a lot of predictions in the past that haven’t come to pass. It might be interesting to look at what went through and what wound up fizzling. Perhaps I’ll save the retrospective for here. Stay tuned.

I managed to wrap up Garm’s Chapter 1 and start in on his Chapter 2, but that’s probably as far as I’m going to get this weekend as I already have a fair bit of schoolwork to take care of. While it’s possible I might get some writing in, don’t count on it. Monday I’ll switch over to JJ. Stay tuned.