Progress Update · 1:09am Aug 7th, 2017
It's been a while since I've posted anything about TRM's sequel and I've had some people send me PMs or post in the comments asking about how it's going. Well, I've got some bad news and some good news (well, better anyway :P)
Bad news first.
My schedule this summer has been crazy. Due to some issues at work, coupled with the fact that we lost a few people and my team is shorthanded, I've been working crazy overtime pretty much since the just after the middle of June. Without really getting into details, things got really crazy, to the point that I had to work through the 4th of July holiday, was working M-F and weekends and had to cancel my summer vacation plans and reschedule my time off. This has, more or less, put a dead stop on my writing, for almost two months (the last time I really had any significant time to do any writing was when I wrote How 'A Royal Problem' Should Have Ended) Even when I had free time, I was pretty much burnt out from working 12-16 hour days and / or through the weekend.
Now for the good news. In the last week or so, things are starting to quiet down and I should be back on my normal schedule hopefully by the end of next week. This should mean more free time, though I'm still somewhat busy because I had to reschedule a bunch of plans to later in the summer. However, I do plan on getting back into writing (I've even poked around at the chapter I was working on before I got crazy busy the other day) as time permits.
As I mentioned earlier, a few people have asked about sequel progress. I'm not really comfortable assigning a percentage to my progress because things can change. I expected TRM to be ~80-100k words and ended up going over 220k. Also my writing speed is fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I'll write 1000 words in a session, get stuck on a spot and struggle with it for a while. Sometimes I'll bang out 10,000 words in a similar time frame. I spent ~10 months working on TRM before I posted the first chapter (and then I worked on it more as I was putting out chapters) As a rough estimate, I expect to spend a similar amount of time on the sequel (not including all the time I lost due to work issues)
Anyway, that about wraps this post up. Thanks to everyone who has left me feedback for TRM. I can't promise when the sequel will be ready, but as long as FimFiction exists, and I have a computer and an internet connection, I'm going to keep working on this thing till it's done.
-- CORACK signing off.
glade to hear thing are looking better on your end.
I remember how it was managing people in the past and I know how being short handed sucks.
so we should start watching for some kind of update some time around February.
I will be looking forward to reading the sequel and I hope kitchen sink again
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The real takeaway from this should be, it will be a while and it's done when it's done.
I still like writing, so I'm not going to stop, but in the end it's a hobby (one of several) that I do in my spare time, and when I don't have any / much spare time, I have to put it on hold. Work and family come first, hobbies come second.
Standing by...
Thank you for letting us know that your ok and still enjoy writing. Just got done with an hour of pt and a long day and this made my day better. Hope life gets easier and you get to enjoy your time more. Stay safe and have fun.
(One of) Your reader(s). J-TBone
Thanks for the update. Your real life and mental health take priority, so you'll get no grief from me on a sequel taking a while.
So many people just not working anymore, its been keeping my work at silly numbers as well.
And just list your progress like this:
It'll get there when it gets there!
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Exactly. That should have been my tl;dr at the end
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Just ninja edit it
Status check - how'r'ya doin', bro?
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Well, I just sat down to do some work on the sequel
I'm still way behind where I intended to be at this point. It's a good thing I don't set release dates.
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hum if i ask i bet i will get the same answer. so i wont ask.
just going to say i / me and several others are watching and weighting.