Quick update: I'm about halfway through chapter 18 at the moment.

Now for the Real News: I figured it's about time to overcome my childhood trauma from playing Hot Cross Buns and get out my mum's old recorder. :P This is my first serious foray into songwriting, so I hope you like it, but don't lie if it's terrible. I have my wonderful flatmate, Steph Cinder*, to thank for the guitar playing. And if you get the reference in the song, I love you.

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Chapters 1 through 4 of Pirene will be getting retakes with the black beast, spawn of Caerbannog. :3 I need more time to work on chapter 17 than originally expected, since my recording schedule brought it up prettttty fast.

So those will be taking place over the next two weeks or so. It'll be more editing work, to be sure, but when I'm already 8 chapters ahead, may as well plow on through.

Right?

Chapter 17 is on a delay.
Buuuuut I have my reasons.
A reason.
It's in 6/8.
I think.

But in the meantime, I will be spending my nights working on chapter 16, plus wholesale retakes of Chapters 1 through 4, for the next two weeks or so. I'll also be taking care of the chapters that come after 17. All in all, this should be done in late March or early April.

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I got a shiny new microphone, the Blue Yeti! It's everything I hoped it would be and more.
Looking forward to recording for you guys in stereo :3

Because I am!

VonSnootingham posted this over a year ago, and then we ran into technical problems just as I finished chapter 10. It's definitely been a rocky few years since I started this audiobook, and I want to apologize to everyone who has been looking forward to seeing it finished. You deserve so much more than one update in a blue moon.

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Good afternoon guys!

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(Insert inappropriate Professor Putricide quote here.)

I'm saying goodbye to my faithful laptop. Repair costs are such that I'd really rather get a new computer. On the bright side, I have everything backed up! That will make life a lot easier so I can power through all the reading I've delayed on so many times. Just gotta find my pop filter...

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In case the news from Twitter hasn't reached all you guys still listening, I've run into a bit of a stumbling block since my last blog entry, and it's going to put Pirene on a delay for up to a week or so now that I've brought my computer into the shop to get looked at.

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Somewhere in my busy life I've found room to re-read some of the books in Madeleine L'engle's wonderful saga, and first among these at the moment is A Wind in the Door. It's been years since I read these absolutely magical pieces of work, which have such a great deal of meaning in them that I think can be appreciated by anyone, no matter what outlook you might have on the world. Why? Because she creates a narrative that, although filled with imagery and symbols inspired by her own

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I guess it's kind of fitting that I've begun reading chapter 9 in the ninth month of the year. I offer my deepest apologies to anyone if you're from the regions whose accents I'm pilfering for Ether Echoes' fic and offended by my failure to accurately replicate them. The fault is mine for not listening hard enough when you guys speak.

Really, though, listening is one of the most important things people can do for each other. It's part of the magic of friendship

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