I made some progress on Chapter 29 of TBP. The minimum goal for the week is to get through Chapter 30, but if I can get and farther than that, it would be outstanding. I’m closing my lead and need to stay ahead or else there will be delays in serialization, to say nothing of preparing for whatever is going to follow TBP. Well, things to do. Stay tuned.

I made some more progress on Chapter 29 of TBP but fell short of my goal of finishing the chapter. C’est la vie. It’s time to move on to CeleKing2. Speaking of the CeleKing series, I need to finish labeling the map before it’s time to post it when CeleKing1 wraps. Stay tuned.

I only made a little progress on Chapter 29 of TBP. Don’t ask me where the rest of the time went.

Since I haven’t done much in the way of progress, I thought I might share a bit about the side project I’ve been working on this week. The basic idea’s been rolling around in my head some time and I finally decided to start developing it as a potential Else Arc story. You see, playing Cinderella Girls I couldn’t help imagine Producer-san as an irritable sort who’s lost all patience with the world around him and particularly the nonsense of the girls he’s managing. For instance, there’s this one S Rare card of Kaoru with her holding up her empty bento box looking so proud of herself and I can just imagine Producer-san crabbily snapping at her, “Well, whaddya want, a cookie!?” To which the reply should be, “She’s a nine-year-old girl who made a happy plate, you dillweed. Yes, she’d probably like a cookie.”

Mostly because I ignore the threadbare plot of the actual game, I tend to imagine the character dynamics and I was seeing all this opportunity you’d never see explored in the actual game. For instance, pretty much every girl in the game comes on to you. Every girl. Given that more than half of them are minors, it’s a big problem. The anime plays with this somewhat by having Producer-san spend a lot of time with the cops, but I’m thinking about a darker look at the concept as a deconstruction of harem romcoms. Prodding at the seedy side of the entertainment industry is another part of it.

This ties into a recent trend in my work where I’m setting up fairly unlikeable leads but still trying to make them engaging. Now, I think with the poor talent agent in this story, his life is in such shambles and he’s so pathetic that you’ll probably feel a little sorry for him, but what do I do in the Nell series if the black comedy approach I’m going for falls flat? Well, I’m obviously not going be going anywhere as an artist if I don’t try pressing the boundaries. If something doesn’t work, I’ll just learn from the experience and move on.

Anyway, that’s just a little glimpse at what’s going on behind the scenes. A little more work and I might put up a teaser in the near future. Have to decide if I want it to be a one-shot or a series. Maybe a one-shot with an option for a prequel.

Hopefully I can get my story progress back on track. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapter 29 of TBP. I’ve still got quite a ways to go, but we’ll see how things proceed. Stay tuned.

I managed to get through Chapter 28 of TBP at last. Now it’s on to Chapter 29. I hope to finish it by the time the weekend’s out. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 28 of TBP and just need to finish it up. I’ve also been doing a fair bit of preproduction work on both the Nell series and a new Else Arc story. I’ll talk more about that one later. Stay tuned.

Well, instead of working on TG Sunday, I was doing some of the legwork for JJ2, as it’s a strong candidate for taking TG’s slot when it opens up. Switching over to TBP, I did some work on Chapter 28. I should have it wrapped up in another day or two. Stay tuned.

Well, I fell short of my goal. Here I was expecting to breeze through to the end of Chapter 28 of TBP and maybe even get through Chapter 29 as well. I did maybe a couple paragraphs. I pretty well know where I’m going, but I just couldn’t move forward. Even though it’s time to move on to CeleKing2, I think I’ll spend some time catching up. I’ve got the whole week off for Obon, so I should in theory have plenty of time for writing. (We of course know that in practice I actually get more writing done during my off-hours at work if I’m not playing video games.) We’ll see what I can get accomplished. Maybe if I set aside some dedicated writing time, I can get back on schedule. Stay tuned.

Once again, nothing more than a few lines in Chapter 28 of TBP, but once I get the update out, I’m going to buckle down and make up for lost time (hopefully). Stay tuned.

More of the same to report. Still just inching along in Chapter 28 of TBP. I suppose I’m going to have to set aside more dedicated writing time or I’m going to start falling behind. There’s a particular risk with TBP as it’s currently in serialization and I haven’t finished it yet. I’d hate having to go back to the sort of schedule slippage we saw back with Tico1. It’s food for thought at any rate. I’ll see what I can do to turn things around. Stay tuned.