Between work keeping me hopping and being wiped out by the time I get home, I haven’t made much progress. I think I managed to write about two sentences on Chapter 23 of TWH before conking out. In the process of getting to those two sentences, I ended up naming all the territories in the Principality of Bascon and while I was doing that, I realized that I hadn’t labelled the territories in Lothria in my map of the Allied Kingdoms to match up to my key, so I worked on that. It would’ve been vastly easier when I was making the key way back when, as I had to kinda back-engineer to figure out what was what. All sorts of fun, but it doesn’t get me too far ahead in the story itself. Hopefully I can turn things around and drive through to the end. Stay tuned.

I started in on Chapter 23 of TWH on the flight, so that’s a bit of a head-start on next cycle. I need to be switching over to CoP, but I have serious doubts on the kind of progress I’m going to make in the coming week. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

I did some more work in the WttW peripheral materials, but more importantly, I finished Chapter 22 of TWH, so I’ll be able to post the story update once I get settled in my lodgings in the wilds. I was intending to get started on Chapter 23, but I ended up doing some work on a little side project I hadn’t touched in ages instead. Well, I don’t hold out a lot of hope for making much progress over the weekend, but maybe I can surprise us all. Stay tuned.

I had an idea percolating in my head on Wednesday, one that I didn’t commit to page as there wasn’t much of anything I got done that day. (And I can only blame reading the final volume of Oshi no Ko for my lack of productivity in the evening, that and my increasingly common habit of passing out in my chair before I get around for bed.) Anyway, that was more fodder for the WttW peripheral materials, but I didn’t stop there. It wasn’t until the evening that I got to it (and a wonder I was able to progress as much as I did), but I actually was able to make some respectable headway in Chapter 22 of TWH. This isn’t going to be that long of a chapter, so there’s actually a decent measure hope of me making my deadline. I’ll buckle down and power through. Stay tuned.

I fiddled around with the WttW peripheral materials some more, but a kernel update prompted me to reboot my machine and that made for an excuse not to open up all those files again. In theory, that should’ve meant a lot of good progress would get made on Chapter 22 of TWH. Well, I can’t say “a lot”, but at least some progress was made. That’s something, right? I need to pick up the pace, though. Stay tuned.

Things really weren’t looking good for me this week, with me not having any time for writing at the office and being too exhausted by the time I got home, but I pledged to finish Chapter 21 of TWH today and I was up until dawn to get it done (and that was after spending much of the day out Christmas shopping). It’s finally done and the finished product is quite the chonker of a chapter, clocking in around 8500 words. Only Chapter 11 is longer (and not by much). I generally consider 10K to be the upper limit for a chapter, but I can’t break chapters quite as easily as some other stories as this one follows a strict pattern of shifting POV characters each time with usually several days having passed from one chapter to the next. (Most of my books shift POV from one chapter to the next, but the pattern isn’t always so strictly enforced.) Anyway, this six-month odyssey is finally over, so here’s to it not taking that long to finish Chapter 22. Stay tuned.

So yesterday I conked right out the moment I was about the start writing and today wasn’t much better with me not even finishing a paragraph on Chapter 21 of TWH. It’s not looking great so far, but I have Friday off and may have to just clamp down to get myself over the line. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

I was really hoping to finish Chapter 21 of TWH today, but it didn’t happen. Now, I know you’ve been hearing excuses like this for the past six months, so I’m not going to go on too long about it, but I am almost done. There’s an action set piece and if you’ve been following my process for a while now, you know that it takes me extra time to get the choreography down. In light of the current situation, I’ll just go ahead and post reviews tomorrow and try again next weekend. Surely I should have it done by then and maybe even finish the less intensive Chapter 22 while I’m at it. Stay tuned.

I had some unexpected paperwork eating my free time in the office, so I didn’t get as much writing done as I would’ve liked. I was really hoping to finish Chapter 21 of TWH today, and I did make further headway in the face of the mascot’s relentless insistence that I go to bed. I’m going to see if I can’t finish it tomorrow for a Sunday release and then push the reviews to Monday. We’ll see how it shakes out. Stay tuned.

I’m moving right along in Chapter 21 of TWH and if I can maintain this pace, another solid day of work should do the trick and I’ll be able to make my deadline. I had to go back and look it up, but, holy moly, Chapter 20 was posted way back in May. Man, the delays have been awful. Not quite Tico1 levels of bad (or poor TCotSL which has been left untouched for years), but the situation is pretty un-frickin’-sat if you’ll pardon my saying so. Anyway, maybe once I get this out the chute, I can get through the last several chapters at a better clip. One can only hope. Stay tuned.