Another day of negligible progress on Chapter 5 of TBP, but I can at least try to make the excuse that I was busy putting together the update. My reviews of Star Wars films tend to go on quite a bit longer than most others (gee, I wonder why). Anyway, I’ve got the weekend laid bare before me, so maybe I can make up that lost progress and still hit my goals for the week. Stay tuned.

Well, once again I’ve come up under quota, but I did make some progress on Chapter 5 of TBP. It’s something. More to come. Stay tuned.

Hey. I finally managed to make quota and I was able to wrap up the new Chapter 3 of TBP. Not too shabby (meeting the minimum standard I’ve set for myself). Chapter 4 is in the same position as before, so now it’s on to Chapter 5, which used to be further down in the story until I started calculating travel times and realized three weeks was a little too long to get a response out of Seth. If I do 5, 6 and 7, I’ll close the gaps the restructuring has caused, which is a worthy goal. Let’s see if we can make it happen. Stay tuned.

I once again wrote a paragraph’s worth of progress on the new Chapter 3 of TBP. Obviously I need to pick up the pace. We’ll see if I can make it happen. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on the new Chapter 3 of TBP, though well under quota. I suppose I let myself get too wrapped up grinding Cerberus before the latest event in GBF ended. Really should be prioritizing my writing, but you know how it goes. I managed to wildly underperform last week, so I’m going to have to make a better showing of it this time around. Stay tuned.

The main accomplishment was getting the TBP manuscript all rearranged to match the new outline, but I also wrote some reviews and made progress on Chapter 12 of CeleKing1, about enough for a day’s quota, obviously not enough for the week. As such, I’m going to extend my work on CeleKing1 into this week and then switch over to TSoA1. Speaking of TSoA1, I’m not going to start serializing it until I have at least ten chapters written, so while CeleKing1 will start its serial run next week, TSoA1 will have to wait a month or two (or three). I don’t imagine it’ll hurt anyone’s feeling too much. So, that’s the plan for the immediate future. Now, if you’ll excuse me while I grumble about my lack of a (functioning) Japanese cell phone preventing me from upgrading my limited edition SR Shiburin… Hopefully we’ll have more genuine progress to report this week. Stay tuned.

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.