I really need to start taking the time to make these posts more often. Anyway, I’ve been progressing smoothly on Chapter 41 of Tellus and will have no trouble finishing it in time for the update. I honestly just have to do the very end of the chapter and I’ll be done. I’ll probably switch over to JJ2 after that, though I admit it’s tempting to just go ahead and write the epilogue and be done with it. I’ll be spending a lot of time on the train this Saturday, so who knows how things will go? Stay tuned.

I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised that I didn’t get anything done during my Halloween trip, but even after I got back, it took quite a while for me to get the ball rolling again. Eventually I resumed work on Chapter 40 of Tellus and I’ve finally got it done. For the time being, I’m going to shift the update schedule to just one story a week in a bid to get things out with minimal delays as I’m now pressed on all three fronts. Next up, I need to get the next chapter of JJ2 together. Stay tuned.

Saturday I was mostly wrapped up in the peripheral materials as the Second Convocation plays out quite a bit differently than previous iterations of the story and entries needed to be updated accordingly. I made some good progress on Chapter 40 of Tellus Sunday and then more modest strides after that, ultimately falling short of my goal to have the chapter out Tuesday. Rather than hastily slap it together and push it out the door, I’m instead going to push the release date back again. *sigh* I really need to get back on the ball. Hopefully it won’t take me going back on Lenten restrictions to get sorted out. Stay tuned.

I made some good progress on Chapter 40 of Tellus, but I’ve still got a ways to go if I’m going to make the Tuesday deadline. Nothing to it but to do it. More to come. Stay tuned.

I inched my way to finish Chapter 14 of JJ2 around Tuesday, then switched gears to working on Chapter 40 of Tellus. It’s slow going and it’d be wonderful if I’d cut out the distractions and throw myself into my writing for a change. Well, hopefully I can at least have that chapter of Tellus ready for next week. Stay tuned.

No doubt to the exasperated eyerolls of the audience, I can now say that I’ve finally wrapped Chapter 39 of Tellus. Depressingly, it only took a single paragraph from where I left off Wednesday. Anyway, it’s done and now I’ve got to give myself some breathing room in JJ2. Stay tuned.

Saturday I spent a ridiculous amount of time tweaking the positions on the sigil of omnimancy because I was trying to make all the elements overlap in a thematically appropriate way. It was important to have this all ironed out and finalized for the choreography of Chapter 39 of Tellus, which has been bedeviling me all this time. One of the four tetrads doesn’t quite work right, but I’ve got 12 of the 16 elements right where I want them, so that’s going to have to suffice.

I made a little progress on the chapter itself Sunday, then floundered about the next couple days until the floodgates appeared to open. The chapter’s title is “Convocation of Chaos” and one of the main problems that’s been sticking me this long is that the scene is, well, chaotic. There’s too much going on at once, which led me to conclude that I just needed to take advantage of the limits of the active lead’s POV and just bring things to an end. I might’ve been able to pull together the focus to end it, but then an interruption came up and I’ve let myself get derailed again.

Now that I’ve burned up my lead time in JJ2, I really have to get back on the ball. My resident productivity expert doesn’t help, but I don’t really have any business blaming her. I’ve got a three-day weekend coming up, so maybe I can turn things around. Stay tuned.

After taking a few days off from writing, I made some decent progress on Chapter 39 of Tellus Sunday, only to accomplish nothing on Monday (even falling asleep before I could complete the simple task of transcribing what I’d written the day before, though I did do some work in the peripheral materials), and then I made only minor progress after that. In short, I don’t have the chapter done, so it looks like the schedule is going to be shifted again. I’d really like to work on something else for a change, but once I get a chapter out, before I know it, it’s time for the next one. Soon I’m going to feel the pinch in JJ2 and CeleKing3 as well, to say nothing of the novels that are in the hopper next. So it goes. I can only do what I can do. Stay tuned.

It hasn’t been a lot of progress, but I have been working on Chapter 39 of Tellus. I’d talked about switching over, but I do need to have the chapter finished before next week. At this rate, I’m going to burn through my lead time in the other books and really be stumped. We’ll see what I end up doing. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 38 of Tellus (obviously, as it’s now up on the site) and have made some progress on Chapter 39. The idea is to try and finish Chapter 39 this weekend before moving on. Stay tuned.