Mixing things up a bit, I did some work on The Brothers Pendragon. I may play around in this story a while to get myself caught up on that nagging quota shortfall. Stay tuned.

I did a little bit of work on TBP, making some addition to the map, axing a few extraneous characters, etc. I’d be quite content to keep on playing with the story, but my lead time isn’t going to hold out forever and at the rate I’ve been going, I’m going to stall out before too long on TTWC1 unless I get to working on it. If I can at least get one of Gamaliel’s chapters finished before the week’s out, I’ll be doing good. If I can go farther than that, even better. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on TBP. It was a nice bit of serendipity writing this one scene where two characters were clashing and I just couldn’t see a middle way between them, so I had to insert another character to play the mediator and I thought, “I guess I need to actually come up with a new character to take this role.” Then I thought a bit and realized, “Hey, I already have a character who would act like this and it would totally further his agenda.” One of my big challenges in replotting this story is trying to fit in all the charas and give them sufficient screentime and this was certainly helping toward that end.

Ultimately, I’m probably going to be cutting back the cast. You see, TBP was one of the stories I originally envisioned back in high school and at that time I added characters to the cast based more off of “This sounds like a cool idea” rather than critically thinking about function in the context of the story. When I rework my old ideas like this, I try to preserve as much of the original vision as possible, but also I don’t hesitate to make major changes if it means a better story. It’s a challenge, but that’s part of it. Stay tuned for more.

Well, it’s taken long enough, but I think I finally have the outline of TBP in a serviceable condition. It should be enough to go forward, even if full production won’t start until after TTWC3 is done. I might as well finish out the week in TBP and then start working on TTWC1. Stay tuned.

More futzing around with TBP. I really more time than I usually have to really sort through all the threads, but so it goes. Adding in little scraps of dialog here and there have to count for something. Stay tuned.

What little time I had to write yesterday was spent working on dialog for a scene in TBP. I know I was supposed to be focusing on just sorting out the general outline, but I felt like working on a scene. I may well end up spending the week on TBP. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

I decided to poke around a bit with The Brothers Pendragon and realized I haven’t updated my outline since the rough sketch I made over ten years ago, My vision for the story’s changed considerably since then, so I’ve made it my pet project at the moment to get things sorted out.

I also did a little fiddling around with the few scenes I have already written. On in particular has artifacts from the days before I was as strict as I am about POV, so I made some adjustments there. I’ll probably be jotting down some dialog and such while I sort out the overall chronology of events, which is likely to only whet my appetite to write more on the story rather than sate it. Stay tuned.