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Aug
5th
2022

[UPDATE] Egad, some activity?! · 2:54pm Aug 5th, 2022

Yes! I am still plugging away at [REDACTED], it's just somewhat slow going due to life reasons. I'm starting to accept that I'm just never going to be as outlandishly productive as WandererD or n7punk, and I'm working on being okay with that.

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Jan
27th
2022

[AUTHOR'S NOTES] Retrospective and Future of Empire · 3:57am Jan 27th, 2022

So here we are, it's been a hair over 2 years and 3 months since I first published Chapter 1.

The Broken Eggs

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Jan
25th
2022

[UPDATE] Epilogue 3 finished, off to pre-reader · 12:16am Jan 25th, 2022

What it says on the tin. Epilogue 3 wound up being a touch longer than I expected it to be, but that was mostly because I realized I had left out a few descriptions of characters in my initial draft. It was just a matter of fleshing out the text.

The weekend REALLY wiped me out, so I'm gonna stumble off back to bed for a bit. Hopefully I get word back from my pre-reader in time to publish it out to FiMFiction by tomorrow AM, if not sooner.

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Jan
22nd
2022

[UPDATE] Epilogue 3 in progress · 4:38pm Jan 22nd, 2022

So we're nearly done. I had been hoping to wrap everything up in time for a Thursday release and do the first-time-in-over-two-years Fanfiction Friday, but my day job had people calling out sick (at least a few diagnosed with COVID-19 in one variant or another) in increasing numbers all week with no appreciable decrease in the workload, so by the time Friday rolled around, I hadn't had any of the extra time I usually would have at work to do the non-writing tasks associated with being an author

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Jan
17th
2022

[UPDATE] Epilogue 2 complete · 8:39pm Jan 17th, 2022

Epilogue 2 is off to my pre-reader, probably will get posted out later today.

I'm gonna say right off the bat that I'm not terrifically happy with the way this turned out. Everything happened that was supposed to happen, but the narrative delivery just isn't up to my usual standard, IMHO. I dunno, maybe my pre-reader will have something to say to either assuage my fears or inspire me to improve it.

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Jan
15th
2022

[MISC] Huh...when'd that happen?! · 3:56am Jan 15th, 2022

So at some point in the last couple years, my little catharsis project merited enough attention that it hit the Feature Box:

This joins:

Double Trixie Trouble (which I seem to have lost the screenshot I took when it happened)

Consequences of Good Intentions

Whom Gods Deflower

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Jan
14th
2022

[UPDATE] OK, ok, fine! · 7:56pm Jan 14th, 2022

Epilogue 1 is finished and queued up for pre-reading along with Chapter 11 and I'll be posting them at approx. the same time.

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Jan
14th
2022

[UPDATE] Chapter 11 is finished · 4:50am Jan 14th, 2022

It's off to my pre-reader, who did have to straight-up tell me they wouldn't be reading it until tomorrow but depending on when that happens, you could wind up being able to read it before dinner. Otherwise, expect it to be published by Saturday.

I'm tired, I'm aiming for my bed.

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YES, this means I'll finally be getting around to putting out part one of the Epilogia soon! Let me sleep first.

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Jan
13th
2022

[UPDATE] One more scene... · 5:03am Jan 13th, 2022

...just one more, and Chapter 11 will be finished. My pre-reader is even reading sections as I finish them just to get the final product out the door that much faster.

One more scene, true, but I'm knackered. It's at least 3 hours past my bedtime, so I'm hitting the sack. If all goes well, new chapter will be up tomorrow.

(No, the epilogia will not be posted with the final chapter...unless... 😳)

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Jan
9th
2022

[UPDATE] Chapter 10 is in "prereader" status · 11:13pm Jan 9th, 2022

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

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Dec
24th
2021

[UPDATE] Yes, I know, two updates in one night · 2:36am Dec 24th, 2021

It's done!

I've submitted it to my pre-reader, but Chapter 9 is complete so far as the story I want to tell. Parts feel rushed, and this will require a hell of an author's note at the beginning, but I made my deadline of getting it finished in time for a pre-read so the publishing can happen no later than Christmas Day. ('course, now it's in the hands of my pre-reader, and since I no longer live with them I can't pester them ceaselessly from just down the hall...)

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Dec
24th
2021

[UPDATE] I really, REALLY want to get this chapter done by Christmas · 1:06am Dec 24th, 2021

It's a long one, that's for sure, but I'm almost to the climax of the chapter, which doubles as the climax of the story. I've got one more chapter, which for those familiar with Joseph Campell's Hero Cycle (yes, I know not everyone likes it For Reasons, but it's still a handy reference point for storytelling) will recognize that Chapter 10 is going to be the "flight from the underworld" chapter, Chapter 11 will be the denouement, and then the epilogia. If everything goes well, I'll have at

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Dec
19th
2021

[UPDATE] When you plant the right seed... · 12:08am Dec 19th, 2021

...you get exactly the fruit you need.

So I'm pausing for a brief break of 5-15 minutes or so as I write chapter 9 of Empire, and I'm having to do this a lot for this particular scene.

Minor spoilers ahead, and I talk about dark subjects, you've been warned.

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Dec
17th
2021

[UPDATE] At the hardest part... · 5:32am Dec 17th, 2021

I'm at the most challenging part, the gap in the timeline that I've intentionally written around the entire story so far. There have been just enough changes in the overall character arc for Sunset that I'm actually having to adapt a few things ever so slightly to make sure everything fits.

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Dec
13th
2021

[UPDATE] Yet more progress · 4:07am Dec 13th, 2021

If I were to take a guess, I'd say I'm about halfway done with Chapter 9 of Empire. For those curious, I'm breaking with the pattern that I've used for every other chapter and am using an album that's not a cover to provide the appropriate mood for the chapter. If you'd like to get a preview of what the intended atmosphere is for this part of the story, go ahead and take a listen to Fable by Ryan

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Dec
10th
2021

[UPDATE] Note to self - Red Bull after lunch is good for writing... · 1:54am Dec 10th, 2021

...not so much for my overall health.

So as implied by the title of this blog post, I've gotten back to writing My Empire of Dirt. I've got the first 4-5 pages banged out and I'm going to see if my pre-reader can go along with my writing as I do it rather than reading after the whole chapter is done, if for no other reason to get it "out the door" faster.

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Oct
31st
2021

[CUTTING ROOM FLOOR] A scene that's meaningful... · 11:44pm Oct 31st, 2021

...but just doesn't fit.

Which is a damn shame! If you don't mind minor spoilage for Chapter 8 of Empire and haven't read it yet (as of this blog post it should be up as a whole chapter within an hour or two) then take a look. It won't spoil the biggest stuff in the chapter, but it's a little salve on the heartbreak that happens. You can probably guess the context.

Three years later…

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Oct
25th
2021

[UPDATE] Poll results, monomacrochapter is a go · 10:48pm Oct 25th, 2021

To nobody's surprise after the MASSIVE lead the "single chapter" contingent took on Friday evening, this big 'ol boondoggle of a chapter will be published as a single entry.

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Oct
22nd
2021

[FEEDBACK NEEDED] Uh-oh... · 3:16am Oct 22nd, 2021

So, I've started writing Chapter 8 again.

Turns out I just needed to rip out the last half-paragraph I'd written, as it told the facts but blocked the creative flow. Once I did that, the words just started pouring out.

A problem has arisen, though.

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Aug
16th
2021

[UPDATE] Time for the "hurry up and wait" part... · 3:33am Aug 16th, 2021

So I hate when life up and says, "Jump," 'cause we're all kinda in Life's playground and gotta do what Life says. :trixieshiftleft:

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