Do you like deep lore? How about meta-lore? It should come as no surprise that over the course of three years writing daily, plans can change a lot. This is a story about how things once were going to go, which I rambled about a few weeks ago in discord and figured I'd do a deeper dive on here, to record it for posterity and because I don't post enough blogs and bet it'll make for a decent yarn. It should go without saying, but there will be a lot of TOW meta-spoilers for how things could have

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On March 5th, right about a year ago, I left work early because news had hit that covid was in the schools and it was time for things to close down. I didn't particularly mind, because TOW was at the end of its final arc and I had already taken the next week off so I could dedicate everything to the ending and then relax a little afterward in peace. It just felt like that break came in a few days earlier. And so I hunkered down in my apartment, eating frozen ramen and other bachelor food while

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Remember when I said I made no promises regarding scheduling?

This is why.

I'm not going to make excuses; I wrote a 2,000,000-word daily over nearly three years. That both proves anything life throws my way is irrelevant to my ability to put out words, and is reason enough on its own to deserve a big break. This being said, I wanted to let people know I'm not dead, and also talk a little about where things stand.

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I just had the least-productive week of the last three years of my life.

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...It's really been two years, huh? I guess that makes it time for another update. The state of the story is this: it's still happening. It's still going to be a while... but a year less than it was going to be when I posted the last update blog. And I don't mean that in the sense of me sitting around and doing nothing for a year. It's been getting time to cook, and it needed it.

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The last time I did a milestone blog for The Olden World, it was at the 200-chapter mark just a day off from New Year's. This time, I've taken it for an entire year. Fimfiction has had a handful of dailies before, and for most, a year seems to be the dream. For me... today was the final chapter in a push to finish Act 2. And as the ending made abundantly clear, this story is still just getting started.

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I'm still returning to reality after Everfree Northwest. It was awesome. I'm not even going to try to list everyone I met because I know I'd leave someone out and then feel bad, but hopefully that's all right. Know that if I ran into you and we said hi, I probably think you're awesome, too.

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Back when this story was published, I made an offhand comment somewhere that maybe there would be a sequel in a year or two. Well, it's been a year to the day since, so how about a progress report?

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It's been a long time coming, but... wow. I've taken a daily through two hundred chapters without missing a single day, according to fimfiction (only in my timezone, granted), never dropping below a thousand words at a time, and never buffering more than one chapter in advance. This is kind of surreal, especially given this story's inspiration.

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So I posted a new story. There will be two more chapters tonight... and after that?

True bufferless daily.

Yes, I'll still post other stuff. Let's see how far I can go.