I’ve mostly been doing work on the peripheral materials today, but I did get Cronos’ Chapter 2 done, so we will have a story update coming up Wednesday. I meant to get a Mascot Monday out this week too, but my backlog of vids is starting to thin out and photo updates take so much more work by comparison. (Yes, I know I’m being criminally lazy in my current marginally employed state.)

It’d be lovely if I could sharpen my focus and really make some major progress rather than this inching around nonsense, but I think my aforementioned marginally employed state is starting to dull my cognitive functions. I suppose a physiological cause is possible, but the days seem to get away from me before I ever manage to accomplish much of anything. As much as I’d love to get by just spending my days with my writing, I think it’s all the other stuff like work and school vying for my time that force me to make the most of what time I can get. Then again, I am terribly prone to distraction, an unfortunate by-product of the age, but that’s no excuse for poor mental discipline on my part. I think I’ll end on that note lest this post warrant the “Ramblings” tag. ^_^;

I’m almost done with Cronos’ Chapter 2. Man, has it been quite the slog, but I’m almost there.

In a vaguely related note (because I completely scrapped the old version of this chapter), I’ve been doing some looking at TTWC2 and 3 and I have the distinct feeling I’m going to scrapping a lot of the old material and rewriting from the ground up. Perhaps because it’s been so long, my current vision has shifted a lot from what I had back in V2. It’s not like the KoG series, which I was continually tweaking over the years. There’s some good stuff there, but it’s not quite what I want anymore. It would figure that I’d find creative ways to give myself more work. Of course, I should be focusing more on what’s currently being serialized and less on what’s now years out on the horizon at my current rate of progress.

I did more work with the peripheral materials, mostly hammering out the family tree of the Dragon royal family. I also did more work on Corona’s Chapter 1 before shifting gears and progressing on Cronos’ Chapter 2. I’m almost there with the latter. If I can just push forward over the next couple days, the update will be ready in time for Wednesday. I have a couple other things to tend to as well, but hopefully I can get everything together. Stay tuned.

Again, I spent some time playing around with Corona’s section (and, yes, I am still aware that we’re currently in Cronos’ section), which led me to fiddling around some in the peripheral materials. I’m refining the backstories of a few characters and such. You know, it would appear that I haven’t done a single non-human family tree up until now. Odd… Anyway, here’s to making some actual progress on the relevant chapter tomorrow.

I did a little conceptual work on the fight scene for Cronos’ Chapter 2 and I think I’m ready to go forward. Ironically, the actual writing I got done was on Corona’s Chapter 1. I decided I needed to scrap most of it, so I really felt compelled to get that knocked out. (Even though it’s far from being knocked out.) It’s definitely looking like you won’t be seeing the chapter until next week, but I’ve got a small token gesture that I’ll be posting to the site that might help tide you over.

As mentioned back in the post “The Night Owl Crashes and Burns”, I’ve adopted the habit of late-night exercise biking and it has a way of knocking me out rather quickly afterward, only now I’m averaging in the twenties and thirties and I’ve upped the resistance. I may or may not be actually losing any weight on this deal, but it’s not like I’ve substantively altered my eating habits either.

Anyway, point being, the time in the dead of the night when I tend to be most productive is being stolen away from me (and I suppose if I get this job I’m interviewing for, I’ll need to be going to bed earlier anyway). That, and frittering away my time on the LP Archive, have resulted in glacial progress on that daggone chapter of TTWC1.

I did resolve myself to make a more concerted push to the end, but it turned out that I ran into a scene with some tricky fight choreography, which always takes extra time to get down. I may yet be able to make a Saturday release, but if not, it’ll just have to wait until next week. Anyway, stay tuned.

Yesterday was rather busy for me, so I don’t have a lot to report (and my subsequent exhaustion being the reason I didn’t post this sooner). I’m still inching along in Cronos’ Chapter 2. I have serious doubts I’ll get it done this week. Perhaps if I just disconnected my machine from the Internet, I’d have no choice but to write until I finished. There are, of course, other things besides simple distractions vying for my time, so who knows? Anyway, I’ll keep you posted.

I was so exhausted last night, I had a hard time seeing much point in just posting “More incremental progress on Cronos’ Chapter 2”, but after today’s work, it really feels like I’m moving things forward. Will it be enough to have the chapter ready next week? I don’t know. This is shaping up to be a rather big one. Also, the more I think about it, the more I have to adjust the original drafting of the scenario.

Perhaps once current events in the story play out, I’ll devote a commentary post detailing how all this evolved. Speaking of commentary posts, I really feel like doing one, so that might be something for tomorrow. Until then.

I apologize for posting this so late, but I crashed right the freak out last night and haven’t been able to get back to the keyboard until now. Anyway, as far as yesterday goes, I did make a little more progress on Cronos’ Chapter 2. Using the floorplan of Domitian’s palace as the basis for Castle Notos, I can better choreograph the action and get things to run from there.

I also did a little writing on The Brothers Pendragon. Now this is a book I’m really eager to write, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, but seeing as how it’s a pseudo-sequel to the TTWC series, I should really get those three knocked out first. I need to pick up the pace. All these stories to write and so little time…

I’ve made a little progress in TTWC1, but nothing to write home about. I finished up Gamaliel’s prologue and added some dialog to Cronos’ Chapter 2. I have a ways to go before I can finish the latter. I need to spend some time really thinking about how I want the scenario to play out. I’ll keep you posted.