Weekly Update

 

Phew! Good week this time! I didn't manage to get the story uploaded before the end of the year, but I made some real progress at the start of this New Year. Happy to have 2021 off to a good start at least, well, here's hoping.

 

Anyway, no reason I shouldn't be able to keep this up and have some good news by this coming weekend.

Back In Action

 

And I'm back home again. Got pretty much nothing done over Christmas, no chance at all to get any writing done, I didn't have a lot of hope but wound up being busier than even I'd expected. 

I did have some "fun" with my family having almost seen some of the notes I brought down too, so that was exciting.

Ohwell, I'm back now here through the New Years so I'll get back into it! 

Hope you all had a great time too, keeping yourselves safe and looking forward to what'll hopefully be a much less messy 2021.

-J

A Dance With A Dragon Ch2

 

And here it, at long last, an upload! Finally finished, the ending to this one took some getting done for sure!

 

Why this instead of the next chapter of ACoT? 

 

Firstly because this is a story written as a favour to someone and I've owed it to them for almost the entire year by this point, I've been writing it in the background while working on my other uploads, but had to put it aside to get them done so many times it's just been ridiculous. 

 

 But moreso, because I was completely stalling with the latest chapter of ACoT and the end is still a long way from sight there. So I thought I'd get something managable done in a short timeframe, both as a palate cleanser and as something I could put out to you guys, so you've at least got something from me! (I understand it's fairly niche taste though)

 

This hasn't been some huge distraction so there's no need to worry about that. I intended to write it up over just a busy weekend, but ended up taking about two to get it 90% done, then couldn't finish it last week due to the work offsite I mentioned, and now here it is!

 

Due to everything going on right now, physical copies are being delayed, but you can read it online at

 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18972334/chapters/68514365 

 

http://www.hentai-foundry.com/stories/user/JLDavenport/35586/A-Dance-With-A-Dragon 

 

http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600090992&chapter=2 

 

Thanks, as always, for your support and patience with all this, and I hope you enjoy it!

 

Now that it's done, I'll throw myself back into ACoT, and see if I can't get something out before the end of the year.

 

-J

Weekly Update

 

Still just chipping away, getting things written down. It's taking longer than I expected, which is of course, also longer than I wanted by far.

 

I wrote several thousand words this week, and I was sure I was going to be able to push through and get to where the end was at least in sight, but I underestimated both how long it would take and how big some of the scenes would be. I'll probably end up trimming things down a little, but for now I'm just going through.

 

If I'm able to keep up this pace, I should have better news soon, hopefully.

 

-J

Weekly Update

 

Managed to get a good amount of time dedicated to writing this weekend, so hopefully I'll have something decent to show by the end of this week.

-J

Weekly Update

 

This has got to be the most tricky, or perhaps the most difficult chapter outline I've finished so far. Since I've already got the story planned out and I've got plenty of notes about what's going to happen when, generally a chapter outline is pretty simple, I can bang it out in a few days and then tweak it as I go and as needed.

 

This one I ended up doing, then undoing, then redoing multiple times trying to hammer it into shape.

The biggest issue is that I've essentially got two chapters here, an A and B side that I want to link together so I want to make sure the timelines are going to match up for this chapter and the one that'll come later.

 

At first I thought I'd abandon that idea and instead of having a second Say'ri chapter just do one for Kagerou with Say'ri's "development" happening in the background, but then it was simply unwieldy, it was going to become way too massive a chapter if I was going to do any justice to either character. 

 

So I did wind up going back to a Say'ri chapter with a Kagerou one to follow, but... well, I'm worried it's still going to be too big, you'll see for yourself with the chapter outlines, I'm probably gonna have to cut or trim down some of theses scenes if I want this out before December haha.

 

I'll aim for before November for now though, but we'll see.

 

-J

Weekly Update

 

Ch20 outline not quite finished yet. 

 

It's always funny jumping back into ACoT chapters after working on something else, like having to kickstart your brain back into action because of how complex everything I've setup has become.

That's a good thing, but it does occasionally get a little hard to keep track of.

 

-J