I’ve managed to make up a bit for some prior sluggishness with solid progress on Chapter 7 of JJ. That progress has been stymied a bit by a fight scene that’s proven a bit difficult to choreograph, but I believe I have a solution. I’ve also written an introduction that serves to clarify the length of the days and years on Miravel, the planet where the story is set. It makes a difference when you’ve got 28-hour days, for one thing. I’ll be adding it in with next week’s update. Stay tuned.

I haven’t made a lot of progress. I did write a bit on Chapters 7 and 10 of JJ and filled out the character glossaries of both JJ and EM up to the current point. Now that I’m caught up on homework, I can focus a little more on writing a bit, but I’ll be right back at it in a couple days. Hopefully I can make some decent headway before then. Stay tuned.

I managed to pretty well finish up Chapter 6 of JJ. I actually had to go back and make some modifications because I was glancing ahead at Chapter 8 and realized I forgot about somebody. Now I can pick up EM and hopefully get a chapter or two knocked out. Chapters 6 and 7 are fairly well along, so wrapping them up should be easy enough. Stay tuned.

I made some more progress on Chapter 6 of JJ. I may keep going to finish the chapter. After that, I’m going to spend some time on EM. In two weeks JJ will debut and then we’ll be alternating between it and EM. Hopefully I can maintain my pace of progress on both so there aren’t any interruptions, but even if there are, I have several Space Arc shorts to fill any gaps. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapter 6 of JJ. I don’t think I can finish it by the end of the weekend, but I can at least make that my aim. Stay tuned.

I’ve made more progress on Chapter 5 of JJ, a bit under quota, but that’s offset by a rather substantial amount of work I’ve been doing in the peripheral materials. You see, the encyclopedia for JJ was originally written to be concurrent with the story, but I’ve since modified it to cover events a good 30 or so years after the story ends. I don’t think it’s a big spoiler to say that Miravel, the world where JJ takes place, is on the block for Reclamation by the Empire. Well, after the events of the story, there’s a world war between the nations willing to submit and those who resist. Besides updating entries in the encyclopedia to account for the aftermath, I also drew up the revised world map. There were other things like expanded family trees and more fleshed out geographical information, but I know that story progress is what I’m supposed to be reporting first and foremost. I’m not that far off from finishing Chapter 5 and while finishing Chapter 6 over the weekend may be a stretch, I can at least make some good headway. Stay tuned.

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.

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.

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.

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.