Well, once again I’ve come up under quota, but I did make some progress on Chapter 5 of TBP. It’s something. More to come. Stay tuned.

Hey. I finally managed to make quota and I was able to wrap up the new Chapter 3 of TBP. Not too shabby (meeting the minimum standard I’ve set for myself). Chapter 4 is in the same position as before, so now it’s on to Chapter 5, which used to be further down in the story until I started calculating travel times and realized three weeks was a little too long to get a response out of Seth. If I do 5, 6 and 7, I’ll close the gaps the restructuring has caused, which is a worthy goal. Let’s see if we can make it happen. Stay tuned.

I once again wrote a paragraph’s worth of progress on the new Chapter 3 of TBP. Obviously I need to pick up the pace. We’ll see if I can make it happen. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on the new Chapter 3 of TBP, though well under quota. I suppose I let myself get too wrapped up grinding Cerberus before the latest event in GBF ended. Really should be prioritizing my writing, but you know how it goes. I managed to wildly underperform last week, so I’m going to have to make a better showing of it this time around. Stay tuned.

Besides some idle edits and additions to the prologue of Tzipi’s Garden, I didn’t get any story writing done, but I did continue my work sorting out the timeline for TBP, adding, deleting and moving several chapters, rendering my comment yesterday about the chapter order obsolete. (Now the old Chapter 3 has been pushed up to Chapter 8 and because that’s a long time to be without any mention of Cassandra, I have a new Chapter 3 and revived a previously deleted chapter to take the Chapter 5 slot.) I think I’ve finally got it all battened down, though. I still need to rearrange the chapters in the manuscript itself. Whee fun. We’ll see what work gets done tomorrow. Stay tuned.

If it weren’t for the regular updates to the site, you might be forgiven for thinking I fell off the face of the Earth. It is the week of Thanksgiving after all. (Okay, I’ll admit, they’ve got two scenario events in GBF and they’ve brought back the Kyle hero quest in S&D, so that might bear some of the blame for my current lack of progress.) I didn’t figure the single sentence I wrote in Chapter 11 of CeleKing1 on Monday was worth mentioning. And while I haven’t made any story progress per se, I have made some serious headway sorting out the timeline for TBP.

While the scale of my maps isn’t necessarily precise, I decided to actually attempt to crunch the numbers for a more accurate calculation of travel times. (I’ve done some calculations for the KoG and TTWC series, but never applying quite so much math.) In so doing, it completely threw the original timeline into chaos. However, after a lot of work, I finally managed to get things lined up. This is going to cause some reshuffling of the chapters, which is going to make my earlier WIP posts make less sense looking back. (For instance, at the moment, the new Chapters 3, 4 and 5 were formerly 4, 5, and 3.) I had about a 20-day offset I was able to resolve by giving Cassandra’s group an additional side trip leading up to the final confrontation, so that’s something.

Given how much of the week has passed with no appreciable progress on CeleKing1, I’ll likely spend next week on it as well, but we’ll see. Stay tuned.

In spite of intentions to do otherwise, I once again put off my writing until I was pretty well wound down for the day and so I once again fell short of quota writing on Chapter 3 of TBP. It may well be that I don’t make up my lost time until my usual Sunday rush. We’ll see, though. Stay tuned.

Another day of under quota progress on Chapter 3 of TBP. Unsurprisingly, when my writing is the last thing I do in the day, I don’t get too far. I’ve managed to clear the story section of this week’s scenario event of GBF, so that’s one less thing to vie for my time. Maybe I can get caught up. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Chapter 3 of TBP. A little under par, but I’ll be making up for it in the coming days. Stay tuned.

I managed to finish Chapter 2 of TBP and I would’ve done more if it wasn’t for the small boss insisting rather vociferously that I go to bed. More of the time was spent working on the outline some more to fill in underdeveloped parts of the story. I really don’t know what I was thinking when I last redid the thing. A lot of plotlines were given no setup whatsoever. Now I think I have it pretty well set. All the pieces should come together in a reasonable fashion. You might argue I’ve got too many plotlines, but this isn’t too different from most of my other stories, for better or for worse. We’ll see how the narrative flows as we continue to develop the story. With that, it’s time to move on to CeleKing1. The goal is to get at least two chapters knocked out this week. We’ll see if I can pull it off. Stay tuned.