I did about half quota on Chapter 10 of TBP one day and a scant few lines on Chapter 11 the next. Fortunately, I have an evening wide open to focus on making up for lost time.

In other news, in case anyone was wondering, I succeeded in unlocking SR Ranko in GBF. I usually don’t put that much time, effort or resources into the Kosenjou because I’m not all that interested in trying to get the Jutenshu at present, but I wanted to grind the Ranko summon up to Level 100 as quickly as I could. SR Ranko is interesting in that her third ability doesn’t unlock until Level 65. (Normally the unlock happens at Level 35 for SR charas.) I’m not a big fan of the internal monologue that translates her usual dialog. Her character is more interesting without it. (Although it does make it sound like she’s possessed the original body, which is thematically appropriate, I guess.) Oh, and just a bit of random advice to all you out there, if you find yourself transported to a fantasy world, you may not want to go around declaring yourself the Demon Queen Brunnhilde. You may find yourself the target of jobber adventurers looking to carve a name for themselves out of your hide.

Well, one more day of TBP and I’ll be back on CeleKing1. Stay tuned.

I only made half quota working on the newly inserted Chapter 10 of TBP. Oddly, the chapter was in my old outline but not the new one. I can’t imagine why I took it out because it establishes one of the players in the great game. Otherwise you just have him showing up out of nowhere near the end. Well, who knows what I was thinking at the time? Anyway, here’s to doing a little better next time around. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Chapter 14, a new insertion as I realized that I’d brought Umbriel into the story and then promptly did nothing with him until the end. Oops. ^o^ Well, that’s been resolved. Maybe when Sunday rolls around, I can start working on some chronological progress. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Chapter 9 of TBP. Yes, I know that’s a jump ahead in the story, but it happened to be the scene that came to mind. One of the problems I have is that I already have bits and pieces written all over the place, but I don’t have access to the content while I’m at work, which can result in issues of overlap and such that I have to iron out later. So it goes. More to come. Stay tuned.

I wrapped up Chapter 1 of TBP and did a little writing on Chapter 2 as well. Tempting as it is to stick with it, I’m going to switch over to CeleKing1 as planned as it’s closer to launch and I need to give myself as much lead time as I can. Ideally, I want to get at least two chapters knocked out this week. Stay tuned.

I already made the announcement on Twitter, but I put the finishing touches on Akasame’s epilogue of TTWC3, completing the novel. Yay. Just for fun, let’s rank the 24 leads of the TTWC series based on the word count of their sections. The results may surprise you (and may not).

1. Daphne (TTWC1)              – 20092
2. Carpos (TTWC3)               – 14176
3. Xanthe (TTWC1)               – 12688
4. Ionathas (TTWC1)            – 12074
5. Simona (TTWC3)              – 11331
6. Akasame (TTWC3)            – 11094
7. Solon (TTWC1)                  – 10051
8. Cronos (TTWC1)               – 10513
9. Urgill (TTWC3)                  – 10121
10. Mab (TTWC3)                  – 9756
11. Corona (TTWC1)             – 9466
12. Rowland (TTWC3)           – 9291
13. Scipio (TTWC3)               – 8603
14. Garm (TTWC3)                – 8028
15. Caligo (TTWC2)               – 7656
16. Xenomachos (TTWC1)    – 6936
17. Medusa (TTWC2)            – 6770
18. Orguz (TTWC2)               – 6556
19. Xorgoth (TTWC2)           – 6024
20. Arachne (TTWC2)          – 5512
21. Python (TTWC2)             – 5492
22. Gamaliel (TTWC1)          – 5200
23. Monarch Lich (TTWC2)  – 4987
24. Dox (TTWC2)                  – 4002

Hmm. I think my Elf-bias is showing. Given that Daphne’s section has the most bearing on the Umbriel Cycle at large, it’s little surprise she has the largest share, but some of these surprise me at where they stand relative to the others. I’m sure I have a round of rewrites in my future, especially to expand on TTWC2, but this is what things look like now as of Version 3 of the story.

I didn’t do much writing on TBP other than a couple lines in Chapter 1. All I did for the most part is review the prologue and what I’d written thus far on Chapter 1. I intend to do a little more writing on it and then switch over to CeleKing1. Stay tuned.

I couldn’t tell you exactly why, but I found myself working on BroPen yesterday, expanding the prologue and fiddling around with the other scattered bit’s I’ve already written. Once I finish TTWC3, it’ll be the Tellus Arc story I focus on and I’ll admit that I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. I’ve got a lot of homework to do this weekend, but I’m going to try to finish at least one of Carpos’ chapters in TTWC3. Stay tuned.

I did a little work on Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of BroPen. Right now I’m mostly just laying down a little dialog so I have something to build on when I go back through to write out the full chapters. I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to stick with BroPen a while longer or switch over to something else. With all the work that’s coming in, I’m having to focus a lot on that, but that isn’t a bad thing. Stay tuned.

I did some writing on Chapter 3 and 4 of BroPen. I’m a little behind the power curve, but I’ve got a lot of work to get done, so I may fall further behind. So it goes. These dodgily translated medical dialogs with an even dodgier grasp of medical accuracy aren’t going to check themselves. Stay tuned.

I wrote some dialog for Chapter 3 of BroPen. The project I was talking about earlier is still going on strong, but I may have a little more time for writing if I stay on top of things. That is, of course, if I don’t use the time to play Suiko2 instead. ^_^; Stay tuned.