I pretty well finished Medusa’s Chapter 2 and made some progress on her Chapter 3 in TTWC2. I think it hasn’t escaped notice that I switched from working on Ophis Python’s section. Yes, I’ll have to get back to him eventually, but that’s a task for another day. Stay tuned.

I mostly finished Medusa’s prologue and Chapter 1 in TTWC2 and also started in on the appendices of TTWC1 so they’ll be ready when the book wraps the week after next. It’d be nice if I could whip up something better than my MSPaint maps, but I’ve been promising better maps for my stories almost since the time I founded the site. Maybe I should just commission a cartographer and save myself the trouble. Who knows? Stay tuned.

I did a bit of jumping around in TTWC2, working a little on Ophis Python’s Chapter 3 and Medusa’s Chapters 2 and 3. I also was fiddling around with research and stuff for other titles. What fun will follow, I wonder. Stay tuned.

With Orguz pretty well taken care of, I went on to tackle Ophis Python’s section and made some progress on his Chapter 2. We are, of course, talking about TTWC2. To be perfectly honest, Python is perhaps my least favorite lead character in TTWC2 and I believe I’ve confessed before that I’ve had issues in the past making this lot compelling. Perhaps part of it is because there’s not a whole lot of sympathy to be had for them, except for Orguz, that is. As I was pondering the problem recently, I realized that while the leads of TTWC1 and TTWC3 are dominated by humans, TTWC2 doesn’t have a single human lead. Yes, a few of them were once human, but they have long since been removed from their humanity. I wonder if that’s part of it. Personally, I enjoy the thought exercise of trying to put myself in the mindset of a non-human sapient, but being human, there is only a limited degree I can remove myself from my own consciousness and even if I could adopt a wholly alien mindset, it’d be problematic conveying that in such a fashion that the audience could connect to it. At any rate, I’m going to be stuck with this big stupid snake for a while. ^o^ Stay tuned.

I managed to fall off the wagon again. There really is no exception. If I don’t push myself to meet quota every day, it’s not going to happen. However, my absence may have proven beneficial as I was finally able to push through Orguz’s Chapter 5 and epilogue in TTWC2. That leaves me with only three more sections to finish (and all of them already have a chapter or two done). The book is going to be rather light in the end, but I can’t worry about that. I just need to keep on driving forward so I can start to turn my attention to TTWC3. I’ve got a lot of writing and rewriting ahead of me, but I suppose I wouldn’t have it any other way. Stay tuned.

I made a little more progress in Rowland’s Chapter 2 of TTWC3 and jotted down some bits of dialog elsewhere. Maybe I’ll finish Orguz’s section of TTWC2 before the weekend’s out and I switch over. Stay tuned.

While I was able to get by with some minor editing to Rowland’s prologue and Chapter 1 of TTWC3, by his Chapter 2 I had to scrap most of it and rewrite it. The Alliance’s attack on Maximilion is rather different than it was back in the previous version of the story, so I have to account for that. The layout of the city has changed as well, so that has to be factored in as well.

In other news, I should have those new teasers up tomorrow or the day after. Stay tuned.

Waking up around 1530 Tuesday threw me well off my game and I’ve been struggling to recover ground since. It’s been a bit of a mess and I’m under quota, but I’ve done some work on Orguz’s Chapter 5 of TTWC2 and started working through Rowland’s section of TTWC3. New offers for work on top of my current work and the rising tide of activity leading up to Christmas have kept me hopping.

In other news, I watched First Knight last night and that’s inspired me to go forward and post the teasers for my Arthurian Cycle. Look forward to that in the next couple days. Stay tuned.

Well, I missed a couple days. In my defense, I at least did a fair bit of work on the Erdi map Saturday, but as you know, the quota only applies to actual story content. However, going into the new week, I was able to get Orguz’s Chapter 4 of TTWC2 mostly finished and make a little progress on his Chapter 5 as well. The goal is to wrap up his section this week and hopefully make some headway into one of the others. It’d be nice to get TTWC2 wrapped up in the near future so I can move on to TTWC3. Actually, I may start working more on TTWC3 because I’ve barely touched it since starting in on Version 3 of the story. More to come. Stay tuned.

I did some work on Medusa’s Chapter 1 and 3 of TTWC2. In all truth, I wasn’t paying as close attention to the timeframe of Chapter 1 and had to do some adjustment to make events properly mesh with the timeline. It’s a good thing I mark the chapters with the dates or that would’ve been a lot more work later on.

Wanting a bit of a change of pace, I started playing around with the Celestial Kingdom books again, doing some light editing of what I’ve already written and trying to fill out the outline more and get the plot squared away. I still have very little sorted out for CeleKing1 and huge gaps in CeleKing2 and 3. Things to do, things to do. Stay tuned.