I managed to write a little above par on Chapter 20 of CeleKing1, narrowing the overall gap. I should be able to finish this chapter (though I still don’t quite know how long it’ll turn out being) and hopefully make some decent headway into Chapter 21 before the week’s out. Stay tuned.

It’s under quota, but I did make some progress on Chapter 20 of CeleKing1. I’m just about done running errands for the week, which should translate to more time for writing. I tell ya, getting my cell phone reactivated has proven to be an enormous pain. (In retrospect, I should’ve asked to keep the SIM card they had at the Tokyo-eki Soft Bank and then just had them finish the proceedings at one of the locations here.) Well, hopefully I can get my running around knocked out early and spend a nice leisurely afternoon writing. Stay tuned.

Amid all the craziness of getting adjusted to life in Japan again, going through my preliminary training, moving into my new place, and crashing out pretty much whenever I’m not on the clock, I somehow managed to make some more progress on Chapter 20 of CeleKing1. As my translation project will be ending as of Monday morning, I think I’m going to give CeleKing1 an extra week before switching over. Unless I’m called up to do some sub work, next week may well prove to be pretty chill. If I’m not working, I do intend to do a fair bit of exploring in my new area, about as much as my legs can handle. I’ve already got the basics covered, but I’d like to cast the net a little wider. I’d also like avoid too many more expenses until my first paycheck comes in, so I may well find myself spending a fair bit of time here in the apartment writing. We’ll see what happens. Stay tuned.

I spent most of my plane ride watching movies and trying to catch up on my translation project, but I did write a paragraph of Chapter 20 of CeleKing1. Definitely not quota, but maybe when things settle down and I get my translation work caught up, I can afford to write some more. I do want to browse around Tokyo while I’m here, so I may not do all that much until after I’ve settled into my new location. The translation project will be ending this weekend, but then my new job starts. I don’t think I have to worry about taking my work home with me like when I was teaching at college, so that should mean my off-hours are my own. And without much else to occupy my free time, I imagine I can get a lot of writing done over the next year (or longer if things go well). Stay tuned.

I made more progress in Chapter 20 of CeleKing1, neatly making quota for the week. I also spent more time than I should’ve assigning positions to the noble houses of Erdi according to the Si Xiang. You know how House Suzuki was introduced as belonging to Baihu? Well, using the Zhongxin County of Tiandao Province as the center and making a second vertex at the intersection of the Prime Meridian and the Equator, I divvied up the map of Erdi into four parts and then assigned alignments to each of the noble houses based on where their territory fell. It was all sorts of fun for territories that were split across two or three divisions. If it was close to an even split, I’d have the count be assigned to one and the viscount to the other. Otherwise I’d just assign one or two baronies to the secondary alignment. As you know from the prologue of CeleKing1, your alignment determines the location of your house’s estate in the Capital. On the one hand, having your vassals in different sections can result in a weaker position but it also gives you access to more of the Capital. Of course, keeping the noble houses on edge and always looking for new and exciting ways to plot against each other is entirely according to plan.

Anyway, I’ve got to be switching over to TSoA1. I expect plenty more genealogy in my future, but I’m way behind on my translation project and really need to buckle down. We’ll see what I can get accomplished this week. Stay tuned.

I finished Chapter 19 of CeleKing1 and started in on Chapter 20. I’ve got a translation project that I really need to be paying more attention to, so I don’t expect any leaps and bounds before the switchover, but I’ll at least make a point to make quota. Stay tuned.

I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten myself caught up as far as the quota is concerned, getting really close to the end of Chapter 19 of CeleKing1. I have at most two or three paragraphs to go, which means I’ll be moving on to Chapter 20 before it’s time to switch over. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 19 of CeleKing1, but I still have about a day’s worth of progress to make up. I should get there, though. Things are moving along, but finishing this chapter may be the extent of my progress this week. It’s a fairly long chapter, so I don’t mind too much. Stay tuned.

I managed to meet my daily quota working on Chapter 19 of CeleKing1, but I wasn’t able to make up for the past two days’ shortfall. That’s still on the menu. To be honest, I was a bit stuck on how to proceed, but now that I’ve got things going, they should move along just fine. I recently came up with a new twist in the story, so that’ll be fun. Stay tuned.

Most of my writing time was spent on Mab’s character spotlight, which I’ll be posting after this. Once again, I did a little writing on Chapter 19 of CeleKing1, but still woefully under par. However, I should find myself a little more focused on writing for the next few weeks, so that’ll be good news for progress. Stay tuned.