In truth, I only did a negligible amount of writing on Chapter 12 of CeleKing1, but I did manage to get all caught up on my transcriptions. Just in time, too, as I’m cycling back around to TG. (In case you didn’t know, a healthy amount of progress I’d made four weeks ago was still sitting in my notepad.) Now let’s see if I can’t knock out two or three chapters. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 13 of CeleKing2. And now I have to think about getting through Chapter 12. You see, this part of the story is tricky for me because it touches on one of the challenges I face as a writer and that is how far I should go. I don’t have any interest in being “edgy” for edginess’ sake. You can have a strong impact when you push the envelope, but oftentimes it’s more effective to practice restraint.

Celestial society has a lot of depravity to it and highlighting that is one way of reinforcing Yasuko’s mission to bring them down, but at what point am I going too far? I have a feeling my threshold may actually be lower than a lot of people, so it may not be that much of a problem. It’s certainly not my intention to be exploitative. Part of the point is to show Yasuko’s strength in resisting and eventually overcoming those who mean to use her, but that may just come off as a fig leaf to try to lend some respectability to a string of abuses involving a 16-year-old girl.

Well, I guess all I can do is charge forward and if I think I’ve overstepped any boundaries or fallen short of what’s needed to really drive the point home, I can always send it through a round of rewrites. We’ll see what happens. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 13 of CeleKing2. The goal at this point is to finish it and Chapter 12 before the next cycle. Stay tuned.

I leapfrogged Chapter 12 of CeleKing2 to work on Chapter 13. Chapter 12 is a little tricky for me. I’ll talk more about it in a later post. Stay tuned.

I finished Chapter 11 of CeleKing2 and wrote a little on Chapter 12. As long as I keep up this pace, I’ll be doing fine. Stay tuned.

Well, it wasn’t my intention, but I ended up taking a break of writing ever since I wrote those few lines on the train ride down to Narita. I’m back in the swing of things, though, picking up where I left off and nearly finishing Chapter 11 of CeleKing2. Just a little more to go and I’ll be done with that. Can I make double quota this week to make up for lost time? I don’t know. Fire Emblem: Echoes is wanting my time, along with FE: Heroes and Hortensia Saga. Stay tuned.

I finished Chapter 5 of TG and wrote a little on Chapter 6. And because the ideas are burning a hole in my head, I went back to CeleKing2 to finish Chapter 10 and write on Chapters 11 and 12. We’ll see what else I get done this weekend. Stay tuned.

I finished the connection between the old and new material in Chapter 7 of CeleKing2, finished Chapter 8, and wrote a little on Chapters 10 and 12. Didn’t quite meet my goal, but I more than met quota and that’s good enough. On to TG. Stay tuned.

I did a little work on the linkage in Chapter 7 of CeleKing2 and continued with Chapter 10. The goal is to get everything knocked out between Chapters 7 and 10 before the weekend’s out. Stay tuned.

I managed to wrap up Chapter 9 of CeleKing2 and move on to Chapter 10. If I can keep this progress up, I’ll be quite satisfied with this cycle. Stay tuned.