Today’s been so hectic I almost forgot to post about yesterday’s progress. I’ve mostly finished up the dialog for Chapters 19 and 20 of Tico3, so I just need to flesh out the narrative and I’ll finally have a little bit of a buffer set up to match TTWC1’s.

After a day without progress, I managed to get a little dialog done in Chapter 20 of Tico3. I planned on doing more, but I kinda conked out while I was at it and, when I came to a couple hours later, decided to go on to bed. Here’s to getting more done today.

I wrote a little dialog on Chapter 19 of Tico3 and played around some with the peripheral materials. That’s about it, really.

I’ve pretty well finished Chapter 18. Now all I have to do is let it sit until Wednesday and go back over it before posting it to the site. Given my lead on TTWC1, I may continue to stick with Tico3 this week and try to get a little ahead in the story.

I’m a little worried about how the Battle of Mars Arc is weighted heavily in favor of the Army and Marines with a little high-level Navy stuff interspersed. We’ll see, though. I may opt to continue as it’s laid out and then reevaluate the whole when it’s done. I’m thinking about how Jeff’s plotline was so dominant in Volume II (though rightfully so) and I have some concerns with the balance of the cast. Even though Matt is ostensibly the protagonist, the Tico series isn’t like, say, KoG where the protagonist overwhelmingly retains his spot center stage. Maybe I’m on the right track in spite of my concerns. Who knows? We’ll see how things develop.

I managed to get through the second section of Chapter 18 and I just have to fill out the narrative of the third section to wrap things up. Shouldn’t be too hard to finish. Stay tuned.

I have most of the dialog written on Chapter 18 of Tico3. I just need to round it out and fill in the narrative and I’ll be good to go. Another day or two of work should do the trick.

I managed to inch along a little more, but as the content of the upcoming post will reveal, I should now have more time to focus on my writing. Stay tuned.

I made some progress on Chapter 18 of Tico3. Not as much as I would’ve liked, but progress is progress. There aren’t any big action setpieces I have to choreograph in this chapter, so it should go by fairly quickly once I buckle down. Stay tuned.

These past couple days, I really haven’t had any time to focus on my writing. However, I did manage to put down some of the dialog for a new short that’s been bouncing around in my head for the past several months. It’s interesting the percentage of the Space Arc shorts that involve the Han family. Hard to say why I’m drawn to fleshing out their backstory more than anyone else’s.

Anyway, I plan on switching gears over to TTWC1 to finish up Cronos’ epilogue. Hopefully I can knock out what little remains to be written in one sitting and move on from there. Stay tuned.

I managed to get Chapter 17 done at long last, no thanks to the relentless pestering of the mascot. I swear, the more I try to focus on being productive, the more she pests me. I love her, but she drives me right up the walls some times.

Happily, next week’s update is pretty well guaranteed to be released on time seeing as how I almost have it done. The lead time I have on TTWC1 gives me reason to throw a little more weight behind Tico3 so I can get a little ahead there too.

In other news, I need to remember to show you some teaser shots from Kazuya’s project. It’s coming together slowly but surely. I’m pretty psyched for it. Stay tuned.