Next Midnight Rising chapter launches Thursday night · 7:15pm Sep 26th, 2023
I’m waiting a couple more days to give the rest of my prereaders more chance to hit it. Be warned that I did decide to break up the chapter again, so you’ll essentially be getting part 1 of Queen Moly vs Dragon Lord Vesuvius with a lot of additional commentary—and a major revelation or two—from the Humane 6 peanut gallery as Sunset continues to tell the tale.
Those revelations include everything from which of our six heroines are clean-shaven and why, to an outside party finding out about the story thanks to Rainbow not being able to stay off her smartphone in chemistry class.
It’s about 11k words long with part 2 at 10k and still growing as I keep filling stuff in. I’m trying to make a believable back-and-forth between Moly and Vesuvius both in term of combat and sex (which are thoroughly mixed together here), as they’re basically a fighting a griffon mating round where the loser steps down from their throne while the winner rules both a dragon clan and the Griffon Kingdom.
It’s been continuing to come slowly as work remains busy and my personal concerns remain active. With regards to the latter, I’m pleased to report that my blood pressure has been coming down, thanks to a combination of additional exercise, more fiber and less salt in addition to my medication. Guess we’ll see what my doctor says at my yearly physical this Friday when I get the results of my bloodwork.
Through it all, I remain very active and pushing myself, having run seven miles on Sunday and 6.5 two days before thanks to what feels like some early fall weather. And then I wonder why my legs felt so heavy yesterday...
Heading forward, I’m not going to stop working on Midnight Rising until the griffon arc is concluded. What was supposed to a single chapter has grown into three, which for better and for worse, is normal for my writing. I’ll do my best to have it out within a week, then October will be given over to Nightmare Night and/or Feathered Hearts: Continuation and Chronicles depending on what I’m feeling like.
It will have to happen around a weeklong vacation to Iceland, however, which I’ll be taking mid-month. It’ll be my first time out of the country in about fifteen years, and certainly the first time I’ve ever been there. Among other things, here’s hoping I get to see the northern lights for the first time.
I imagine Sunet will be pissed about Rainbow's indiscretion leading to the discovery. I doubt Rainbow can count on Sympathy from the rest of the group either.