I'm about fifty to seventy five percent finished with the second outline of the next chapter. It's looking like it's going to be another long one, so I'm possibly going to break it into two 'smaller' chapters. So, part 3b subsection 1 and part 3b subsection 2, probably. I hope I can pull this one off. It's difficult, for me at least to write so many different characters without them all sounding the same.

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Unfortunately I'm not quite as far as I'd hoped to be. Retarding my progress was the fact that I had less free time during my conference than I'd anticipated. In addition, somewhere between Salt Lake City and Atlanta, someone coughed on me, which meant that I had a very bad fever shortly thereafter, one which I'm still dealing with the fallout from.

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Rough Draft v. 1 for the next update is finished. At the moment it's an estimated 20k words. I'm going on a business trip April 2 -11th (yay moabcon) so I hope to have Rough Draft v. 2 finished by then and sent to the editors. Assuming that I have any editors left. From there we'll embark upon Rough Draft 3.x until we perfect everything, or I get fed up and post it.

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Finished a rough outline of Part 3. At the present time, I'm expecting it to be three chapters long, so part 3a, part 3b, and part 3c. I'm not sure how long each chapter will be, since I'm not a good judge of these things. That last chapter was originally supposed to be 8-9k words long.

Anyway, the future's uncertain, but the end is near, thankfully.

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We're 2/3 the way through this story. Yay.

I just spent ten hours of quality time with an IBM idataplex. Yay.

I hate IBM so much

I'll try and keep you updated on the progress of future chapters. But right now I'm going to crash.

I received the editor recommendations earlier this week, but haven't had a chance to work on them due to 14-16 hour days at work. Thankfully they gave me this Saturday off, so hopefully I'll have the revisions done by the time the Guild Wars early start kicks off. Then hopefully it will just be a quick check by the editors again, and time for posting.

In other news, I didn't think anything could be more retro than C in vi. Until my co-worker busted out fortran in ex.

Well, after five thousand words, time to scrap the rough draft of the one short I began last week, and start all over. But that's alright, through natural selection my writing will become stronger, faster, better adapted for its environment. Like a super nematode.

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Doing the first round of edits on the next chapter as suggested by the editors. Hopefully there will only be one more round of pre-reading/editing and then we're good to go. It's taking a while since the chapter is at 25.5k words at the moment. It takes time to slog through all that and find the parts that don't suck.

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