Wednesday kept me hopping, so no progress then, but yesterday I had some downtime between grading entrance exams and the staff meeting before we could go, so I was able to make some progress on Chapter 22 of EM3. We’ll see what can get done on my comp day. (Don’t hold your breath, but I may surprise all of us yet.) Stay tuned.

Monday was another day of me making minimal progress on Chapter 22 of EM3 before conking out and yesterday would have been even worse, as evidenced by the fact that I didn’t even get to making a simple post like this, but I actually did better than you might think, making some nice headway in Chapter 22 of EM3 while working on the outlines for the WttW series during my free time at work (enjoying it while it lasts, which isn’t long).

I believe I’ve mentioned before that my most recent projects have taught me that writing by the seat of my pants is terrible and a major contributor to all the delays we’ve seen in those projects. I want to avoid that in the future, so I want to go back to putting the proper planning back into the process. That can be a little tricky when I’m pushing myself to consistently release new content, but in the case of RttW, I already have a good headstart that affords me some time to get things sorted out. How well all this works remains to be seen, but if you want to achieve a goal, you’ve got to set it first. Stay tuned.

Ugh. This is starting to drive me crazy. I can’t get more than a couple sentences in before I’m out like a light for some two hours. Well, so it goes. One day I’ll get lucky and enjoy an unbroken spell of writing without my body shutting down on me. Anyway, a little progress was made on Chapter 22 of EM3 and maybe I can drive forward and get it finished before switching over. Stay tuned.

You might be wondering why I’m posting about Thursday’s progress on Saturday. Well, I crashed so hard Friday evening that I couldn’t even get to writing this post, much less making any further progress. Thursday wasn’t that much better. I couldn’t get all that much written on Chapter 22 of EM3 before crashing out then, too. Can I turn things around in the course of the weekend? Don’t count on it, but I’ll see what I can do. Stay tuned.

Between bouts of unconsciousness, I almost made quota working on Chapter 22 of EM3. If I could actually stay awake, I might be advancing leaps and bounds. Also, I’m getting close to wrapping up the latest round of checking papers, which should help give me a little more time for writing as well. Anything to move things along, right? Stay tuned.

Right when I was going to start writing Monday evening, the mascot insisted that I go to bed. Apparently someone told her that I had to get up earlier than usual the next morning because of our school’s entrance exams. I didn’t think I was going to fare any better yesterday when I conked out right in the middle of the evening, but I was able to get a second wind and got some writing done on Chapter 22 of EM3. Not quite meeting quota (as I conked out again), but more than what I wrote Sunday. Baby steps, I suppose. Anyway, we’ll see what I can get done from here on out. Stay tuned.

As you can see, I’ve been out of action for a while. Now, part of this wasn’t unexpected. I don’t usually manage to get any writing done when I go back to the States. (I suppose I have less excuse for not doing any writing while spending 20 hours on the road, but so it goes.) I was hit with a cold at the end of my trip and spent a good chunk of last week trying to bounce back from that while also dealing with the hustle and bustle of the new term starting. Fun, fun, fun.

Amid a whole lot of anime viewing, I managed to find some time to do some editing of Chapter 21 of EM3 and then start in on Chapter 22. It’s well short of the daily quota, but at least it’s something. The ball is rolling and I’ve just got to keep it rolling. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on Chapter 21 of EM3 and also wrote some on Chapter 9 of RttW. I need to be switching gears to TWWH, but I imagine I’ll be drawn back to RttW while I’m at it. Stay tuned.

I continued along in Chapter 21 of EM3. I believe I’m pretty close to a stopping place as I don’t want the characters to go ’round and ’round too much in their conversation. We’ll see what more I can get done over the weekend. Stay tuned.

I did a a repeat of the pattern established earlier in the week by having one day where I made minimal progress before conking out followed by another where I actually made some decent headway. This time it was with Chapter 21 of EM3. If I can get the chapter finished before the weekend’s out, I’ll have a bit of a lead that will give me a buffer in the production pipeline. If only I could do the same in TWH… Anyway, that’s all for now. More to come. Stay tuned.