I made a little more progress on Chapter 21 of TWH. Would’ve liked to have done more, as always, but progress is progress. More to come, one would hope. Stay tuned.

I made some more progress on Chapter 21 of TWH, getting set up for the main event of the chapter. Something to get excited for, though I haven’t decoded how far I’m willing to go to resolve the situation that’s developing here. I guess that’s something I’ll discover as I go.

In other news, I recently had a burst of inspiration and so I spent a fair bit of time jotting down the ideas I’ve come up with. It actually ties into an earlier idea I had that I started developing further and I’m thinking of tying into a repurposed DnD scenario I was making for my niece that I never got around to using (as we never got past the character creation stage) and an alternative game system I developed when I was trying to make a simpler one than the system I’ve been putting together for the Welcome to the World series. Basically, it’s growing into its own cycle of the Else Arc, but it’s still in an embryonic stage at the moment. I’ll post more as it develops, but I really do need to be focusing on my primary task at the moment. Hopefully I can continue to make steady progress. Stay tuned.

Well, it turned out that I got more into the bunkasai festivities on Friday than I was expecting, so I didn’t get any writing done, but yesterday I did manage to find time to get some more writing on Chapter 21 of TWH done. I still have a ways to go, however. I need to think about whether I want to give it another week or move on to the next cycle. Stay tuned.

I made some respectable progress on Chapter 21 of TWH, mainly because I didn’t do any work-work, but, hey, it’s bunkasai. I doubt I’ll finish the chapter in time for the weekend, but at least I’m moving forward. That’s something. We’ll see how much more I can get done. Stay tuned.

I’m continuing to inch along in Chapter 21 of TWH. Can I finish the chapter before the weekend? I doubt it, but maybe I’ll surprise everyone, myself first of all. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Chapter 21 of TWH. Managed to plug some holes in a scene and have things set up to go forward. I’ve got some grading to do and minding of the kiddos, but I hope to make more progress as the week goes on. Stay tuned.

Although I haven’t accomplished much, it’s been so long that I really felt that I ought to check in. Technically, I did a little bit of work on Chapter 21 of TWH last Friday, but I didn’t think it was enough to warrant a mention, but I did a little more poking on it and some revisions to the epilogue of EM3. Regarding the latter, I still feel I need a couple more lines to properly close things out. I’ve been rather busy with the start of the new term and haven’t had the time to focus on writing. There’s still quite a bit of work piled up and it’ll take me at least another week until things start to settle down a bit. I’ll try to get some content here with a little more frequency, but I won’t make any promises just yet. Stay tuned.

I don’t really deserve credit for it, but I did a little more work on Chapter 21 of TWH, spending more time under the hood sorting out some things for the setting of the chapter. And because I can’t seem to stay focused on a single task, I went back to Colony Flipper to write a bit there, springing off some additional work I’d done on my planetary database the other day. Well, I’m definitely not making my deadline and I suppose we can look forward to me switching over to two weeks of not making any progress on EM3. Yay. -_- Well, maybe I’ll end up surprising us all. You can’t ever tell. Stay tuned.

Well, if you think it’s frustrating not being able to read Chapter 21 of TWH by now, imagine my frustration with not having it written yet. Now, I’ve been doing mental previz for the past several weeks but have kept floundering when it comes to putting the words to the page. I did manage to push through by skipping a bit of narration for later and got a little of the dialog that’s been swirling around in my head written down. That’s something but well short of the mark. Although I haven’t been quite as busy or felt quite as run-down as I have in weeks past, I’m still having trouble finding the time, energy and focus to make sufficient progress. I’ll try to buckle down and we’ll see where it gets me. Stay tuned.

I haven’t posted since Monday’s efforts, so you might think that I haven’t been doing anything productive in all that time. While I haven’t made the story progress I would have hoped, I was doing a fair bit of work in the peripheral materials, divvying up the territories in the rest of the Eight Kingdoms as I had done for Bergeny. Why was I doing this when there was a chapter I needed to be finishing? Well, I needed a better understanding of the area where the chapter was taking place as the local politics factor into how the story plays out. Yes, it’s more effort than some authors put into the behind-the-scenes part of their work, but this is the kind of author I am.

I did get some actual story progress done during my time at Immigration and City Hall yesterday, moving a bit forward in Chapter 21 of TWH, but nowhere near enough to make the deadline. I now have to decide between giving it another week or switching over to EM3 for the time being, though I’m even more lost on the upcoming chapter there. (I know the overall plot, but I’m getting bogged down in the details of how to make it all work plausibly.) You’ll find out after next Monday, I imagine. Stay tuned.