Besides some idle edits and additions to the prologue of Tzipi’s Garden, I didn’t get any story writing done, but I did continue my work sorting out the timeline for TBP, adding, deleting and moving several chapters, rendering my comment yesterday about the chapter order obsolete. (Now the old Chapter 3 has been pushed up to Chapter 8 and because that’s a long time to be without any mention of Cassandra, I have a new Chapter 3 and revived a previously deleted chapter to take the Chapter 5 slot.) I think I’ve finally got it all battened down, though. I still need to rearrange the chapters in the manuscript itself. Whee fun. We’ll see what work gets done tomorrow. Stay tuned.

If it weren’t for the regular updates to the site, you might be forgiven for thinking I fell off the face of the Earth. It is the week of Thanksgiving after all. (Okay, I’ll admit, they’ve got two scenario events in GBF and they’ve brought back the Kyle hero quest in S&D, so that might bear some of the blame for my current lack of progress.) I didn’t figure the single sentence I wrote in Chapter 11 of CeleKing1 on Monday was worth mentioning. And while I haven’t made any story progress per se, I have made some serious headway sorting out the timeline for TBP.

While the scale of my maps isn’t necessarily precise, I decided to actually attempt to crunch the numbers for a more accurate calculation of travel times. (I’ve done some calculations for the KoG and TTWC series, but never applying quite so much math.) In so doing, it completely threw the original timeline into chaos. However, after a lot of work, I finally managed to get things lined up. This is going to cause some reshuffling of the chapters, which is going to make my earlier WIP posts make less sense looking back. (For instance, at the moment, the new Chapters 3, 4 and 5 were formerly 4, 5, and 3.) I had about a 20-day offset I was able to resolve by giving Cassandra’s group an additional side trip leading up to the final confrontation, so that’s something.

Given how much of the week has passed with no appreciable progress on CeleKing1, I’ll likely spend next week on it as well, but we’ll see. Stay tuned.

While I ultimately fell short of the weekly quota, I did manage to wrap up Chapters 3 and 4 of TBP and do a little work on Chapters 5 and 6. I would’ve gotten farther in the story, but I started doing calculations for the distances between locations for a more realistic view of travel times. My measurements aren’t precise of course, but it’s more than enough to get a ballpark estimate. It’s going to dramatically affect the timeline for the story. Even though I need to be switching over to CeleKing1, I’m probably going to spend a little more time on it. Stay tuned.

I may have actually hit quota this time working on Chapter 3 of TBP. I think I may have been going a different direction with the chapter originally, so I’m having to tweak it some to fit the new text. Maybe I’ll try doing some writing before 0400 and actually be a little more coherent for it. Stay tuned.

In spite of intentions to do otherwise, I once again put off my writing until I was pretty well wound down for the day and so I once again fell short of quota writing on Chapter 3 of TBP. It may well be that I don’t make up my lost time until my usual Sunday rush. We’ll see, though. Stay tuned.

Another day of under quota progress on Chapter 3 of TBP. Unsurprisingly, when my writing is the last thing I do in the day, I don’t get too far. I’ve managed to clear the story section of this week’s scenario event of GBF, so that’s one less thing to vie for my time. Maybe I can get caught up. Stay tuned.

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.