Sep
23
2015
I’ve made some progress in Chapter 5 of JJ. Another day should be enough to wrap things up unless I decide to add another section. I don’t think I will, though. If I could get through Chapter 7 before the weekend’s out, that’d be fantastic, but we’ll see how far I manage to get. Stay tuned.
Sep
06
2015
With my stated goal of trying to finish Chapter 5 before the weekend’s out, it’s going to sound odd for me to say that I wrote on Chapter 8 instead. The reason for this is that I use OpenOffice Writer and the word counter doesn’t always work right, so I have to highlight the entire document. This then kicks me to the end and I work my way back up. I just happened to stop on Chapter 8 on the way and decided to write on it for a while. I doubt I’ll finish Chapter 5, but maybe I can at least get one or two sections done before I switch over to something else. Stay tuned.
Sep
05
2015
I finished up Chapter 4 and did some work on Chapter 5 of JJ. I’ve expanded the scope of the latter, so finishing it this weekend may be out of reach. If I can manage the time after finishing my homework, I’ll try to make it happen. Stay tuned.
Sep
04
2015
I got Chapter 4 of JJ all but finished, just lacking a good paragraph or two. I also drafted a complete roster of the crew of the Junker Jorg‘s rival, the Junker Woland. I may not actually need this information much in the course of writing the book, but it’s nice to have. Also did some writing in the peripheral materials. Looks like my goal for the week is perfectly obtainable. Stay tuned.
Sep
03
2015
With all the homework I have to do and the craziness of the weekend, it’s little surprise I haven’t been able to make time to get much writing done. It would seem that Wednesday is my primary window of opportunity, where I have a 90-minute break between classes. Now that things are leveling out, I should be able to get writing done on Friday through Sunday as well and maybe I can start to eke out a little more beyond that. We’ll see.
On to the subject at hand, I made a little more progress on Chapter 4 of JJ. Still just a little bit shy of finishing it. If I could get through Chapters 4 and 5 by the end of the weekend, that’d be great. Stay tuned.
Aug
28
2015
Yeah, as expected, I haven’t gotten much writing done so far this week. I did make some progress on Chapter 7 of JJ and did a little work in the peripheral materials. It may take me a while to adjust to my new schedule, but I’ll try to make what progress I can when I can. Stay tuned.
Jun
09
2015
I did a little more writing on Chapter 4 of JJ. Getting really close to finishing it, which will put me in all the better of a position when its serialization begins. I probably should make sure I have as good a lead on EM as well. Also wouldn’t hurt to push myself to wrap up TTWC2. If I can get myself to start writing regularly again, these things won’t be that big of a problem. We’ll see if I can manage it or not. Stay tuned.
Jun
03
2015
I almost wonder if I should expand the scope of these posts to include reviews or simply resign myself to the fact that I’ve been terrible about meeting quota lately. I think that I’m simply going to have to recommit myself to dedicating the time needed to make story progress. I certainly ought to be making time to pursue my calling and not just spend my days playing video games, watching movies and listening to LPs. Well, as I try to restore my resolve, I can say that I made a little progress on Chapter 4 of JJ and spent quite a bit of time in the peripheral materials, to include some work on the world map and sorting out some of the currencies of the different nations.
As always, while I haven’t had an abundance of story progress since the last post, I have been continually churning out new reviews. I already have built up enough to keep me in business for a while. The reason last week’s batch of reviews didn’t come out is because I got tripped up on the Azumanga-Daioh manga reviews. Really, the format for the comics/manga reviews strikes me as a bit of a liability compared to the simpler approach I take to movies and TV series. I may consider a reformat to simplify things. Anyway, hopefully there’ll be more progress to come. Stay tuned.
Tags: Cross Arc, JJ, JJ1, Junker Jorg, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews, WIP Update
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May
28
2015
I have yet to truly get back into the swing of things. Since the previous post, I had done some more work in the peripheral materials and went to naming the chapters of EM and JJ (not as trivial a thing as you might think). However, it wasn’t until yesterday that I actually made some story progress, the first in over a month. I did some writing on Chapter 4 of JJ and worked on putting together the crew roster of the Junker Jorg‘s nemesis, the Junker Woland. Maybe this is the start of me moving forward again. Maybe. Stay tuned.
Tags: Cross Arc, EM, EM1, Everyday Magic, JJ, JJ1, Junker Jorg, Post-Apocalyptic, WIP Update
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May
18
2015
Here I go and give you a glimmer of hope that things are going back on track only for me to go off the reservation again. While I haven’t made any story progress, it’s not like I’ve been doing nothing of relevance at all over the course of the past week and I might as well report on that. Besides more reviews, I’ve been working in the peripheral materials, particularly those of Junker Jorg and Nagareboshi Tennyo. In the latter case, my encyclopedia file was corrupted at some point in the two years since I last worked with it which had perpetuated to all my backups, so I had to start it all over again, reconstructing as many articles as I could from the timeline.
I’ve pretty well got JJ’s outline filled out and once I get all the chapters named, I can have a proper table of contents. On that note, I really need to do the same for Everyday Magic and TCotSL. Things to do to occupy my time. Hopefully I’ll get some actual story writing done this week. Stay tuned.
Tags: Cross Arc, JJ, JJ1, Junker Jorg, Nagareboshi Tennyo, NagaTen, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews, WIP Update
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