It never rains but it pours. I had hoped for September to be a really productive month, and I did get some good work done, but it was one thing after the other getting in the way. Our HVAC system went out in mid-month, which left us sweltering for a few days until we had everything replaced.

Then, no sooner did that get resolved, than I had a nasty flare-up of kidney stone that’s still not cleared up. Kind of hard to concentrate on any work – for your day job or your side hustle – when you’re subject at any moment to feeling like there’s a knife buried in your back.

Still, I managed to get another big chunk of Architect of Worlds laid out, and I did most of the work to write a new section of material about modeling local surface temperatures. I think I’m within striking distance of having the entire layout finished in rough draft, so that’s the primary objective for the month of October.

So here’s the plan for this month:

• Top Priority:
  • Architect of Worlds: Finish writing new material to streamline the estimation of variations in local climate (originally Step Thirty-Two in the design sequence).
  • Architect of Worlds: Complete the initial layout of the book.
• Second Priority:
  • Danassos: Continue work on the new draft of Twice-Crowned.
  • Danassos: Continue work to rebuild the alternate-historical timeline.
  • Fan Fiction: Continue to write a Runequest-based story of at least novella length.

As far as releases for my patrons are concerned: I expect a free update of the growing Architect release draft – in fact, this is likely to be the final free update for that project before the book is released. If I produce enough new prose for Twice-Crowned or the Runequest story, I may offer partial drafts of those as a reward too (charged for Twice-Crowned, free for the Runequest story).