Happy late Halloween, everyone. No funny parenthetical this week, I've spent all morning cleaning and unpacking more books that I brought back with me from Kansas, so I'm a little low on creative and funny juice.

In that front, I've learned that I left a bunch of my manga in Kansas. Again. I'm not very happy with this revelation, as most of what I left is Chaika, Nothing Happens: The Manga, Deadman Wonderland, and JOJO. Along with a bunch of normal books too, but they're less important.

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Don'tcha just hate it when you're staying up until three or four in the morning to think on a project you want to write, just to come up with a way different idea? An idea that could actually make a decent story on it's own? One that won't get out of your head no matter what, making it impossible to focus on the story you're trying to write?

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I've got good news, and bad news for me, good news for all of you.

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I'll just go ahead and put the part that you want to see first: I've got what will probably be the prologue for To Dream is Divine sketched, and about a quarter of it written. I've also got some good ideas on where the story is going to start, and go. Still working on the ending, but once I've got some of this high-level stuff out of the way, it should be pretty easy to start actually bashing out chapters again. I'll go into more detail on the final plans when I get closer to that point.

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New Words: 2,338 (31,564 total)
Chapters Worked On: 12, 13
Chapter Finished: 12

I know it isn't my normal update day, but I realized I hadn't said anything in awhile. I'm also sure you guys are about as sick of hearing my excuses for slow writing as I am of writing them, but here we are. Last time was RE8, this time it's a combination of Mass Effect and DnD.

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New Words: 1,910 (28,049 total)*
Chapter Worked On: 11, 12
Chapter Finished: 11

Man, I've gotten really bad at keeping you guys updated, and getting a chapter done a week. It's gotten to difficult to focus with all my other projects floating around.

In my defense, neither quick nor Qrow have been editing, so I'm not the only slacker here. Not that it makes this better...

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I know this is a day early, but I've got some exciting news to share! ^{and the next path for XIV drops tomorrow and I don't want to forget you guys.}
New Words: 1,928 (9,026 total)
Chapter Worked On: 3, 4
Chapter Finished: 4

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Last week was fun, wasn't it? I'm surprised I was so eloquent on my last update given the volume of alcohol I drank and how I was typing: lying in bed, twisted sideways and typing on a very tiny keyboard. And only one typo too, at least that made it into the finished product. I'm home now, in not-so-sunny Chicago, and ready to resume work once I get some other things out of the way.

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No, the parenthetical joke isn't me being an idiot. Allow me to ramble for a moment, provide some happy numbers, then ramble some more.

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I figured this is the easiest way to pass information out to you guys. I'll post at least one update a week, when I would normally have posted a chapter, so every Tuesday for now.

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Specifically, procrastinating from packing. Quick has decided that we are moving this Saturday, so we have to pack the entire apartment in less than a week. It's for a good reason, and we're both excited to get into a bigger, nicer apartment. But first we have to actually do it, and moving sucks. On top of that, I'll be heading back to visit family a week after the move, so it's going to be a busy month.

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New Words: 1,397 (4,566 total)
Chapter Worked On: 2, 3
Chapter Finished: 2
Other Notes: I rewrote the ending to Chapter Two about seven times. I still hate it.

Nothing really new to report this week, except that Chicago is back in lockdown. There's a non-zero chance that I'll spend my first Christmas away from my hometown stuck in a strange city totally alone. Quick is gonna probably be out of town with his own family, so it would just be me here. I am unsure how to feel about this.

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New Words: 2,972 (20,363 total)*
Chapter Worked On: 9
Notes:

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^{*Drunk Elfy is a known liar. Anything said or typed by Drunk Elfy doesn't necessarially represent the thoughts or feelings of Sober Elfy, but it might.}

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New Words: 2,532 (7,098 total)
Chapter Worked On: 2, 3, 4
Chapter Finished: 3
Other Notes: The working title for Chapter 3 got one of my first facepalms from quick. It's an important milestone, shut up.

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New Words: 2,156 (19,547 total)*
Chapter Worked On: 1 - 9
Chapters Finished: 8
Notes:
--The * hints to the fact that the word count might not be quite right this week. I worked on almost every single chapter, but every chapter except an addition to 4, and 8 and 9 were done on the doc. I take the word count from Scrivner. Due to my current computer limitations, I didn't move the doc changes to Scrivner. I'll fix it before next week.

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So, you've probably noticed that this isn't structured as the normal updates are now. That's because I think I only got ~50 words down this week. As I mentioned last week, the day of the last update was my last day of quarantine, and I was set to leave for Chicago on that Saturday, just a couple of days ago. I basically spent the intervening three days trying to condense in my two week trip. It didn't work, but I still didn't really have any time to write much.

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New Words: 1,655 (26,139 total)*
Chapter Worked On: 10, 11
Chapter Finished: 10

So, I'm back-ish. Most of my life has come back into shape enough that I finally felt comfortable enough to start writing again. It took a bit of time to get used to my new keyboard, but now that I have, it's super nice to not have to worry about sticking or dropped keys. My last keyboard was getting on almost a decade old, so it was probably due for an update.

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New Words: 3,503 (13,716 total)
Chapter Worked On: 5, 6, 7
Chapters Finished: 5, 6
Notes: Typing on the tiny keyboard blows

I was super happy with progress these last couple of weeks, until I realized how little I'd actually done. Sure, it's the biggest single week update to date, but I also didn't really do anything the last week before my trip. Since I'm in quarantine though, there isn't a whole lot more to so...

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New Words: 2,241 (15,957 total)
Chapter Worked On: 7, 8
Chapters Finished: 7
Notes: Apparently quick is slacking on the editing. Shame.

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