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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XLIV: Rígan Fuilech

I know what I want to have go down in this chapter, but how to start it is frustrating me a little.

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[Hereafter] Chapter XLIII: Ave Caesar

I still didn't get quite where I wanted to go with this chapter, but considering the note it ends on, I think this is a fitting title for it either way. 

Foreshadowing? What foreshadowing? I have no idea what you're talking about.

Yes, that opening scene from this chapte...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XLIII: Ave Caesar

This time, it should be the right title.

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(CiP)[FRW] Chapter 11: Prognosis

What's this? No, I haven't forgotten about this story, just...sometimes forget how long it's been since I last worked on it.

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[Hereafter] Chapter XLII: Familiar Unknown

Late night chapter release! Somewhere, it's still Sunday, right? ...Right?

Well, I didn't get quite as far as I intended to this chapter, or rather, because I thought it would be way too fast paced if I tried to get there, I changed the title and let the characters breathe a little here.&nb...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XLII: Familiar Unknown

This title might change. It depends on how far I get through what I want to have done. 

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[Hereafter] Chapter XLI: Another Brick in the Road

So yeah. It turns out that "my back pocket" was just "next chapter." Oh well. It's more fitting here than it was last chapter either way.

Some more setup this chapter, but that's okay, because I think next chapter is going to be very action packed. I said before that I didn't remove Boudica...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XLI: Another Brick in the Road

It turns out "my back pocket" is just "next chapter." 

Well, that's the plan, at least. I might change my mind later on, if I don't get as far as I want to this chapter.

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[Hereafter] Chapter XL: Passing Grade

Still not totally sold on this chapter title, but I don't have a better one, so I guess this is what it'll be. I thought about "Another Brick in the Road," but I want to keep that one in my back pocket for now.

Not too much happens, this chapter. It's more setup to lead us into getting to R...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XL

I...am honestly not sure what to call this one, yet, so it's just going to be chapter 40 for now.

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXXIX: Test of Valor

This is a little later than I wanted it to be, because some stuff happened this weekend and it also fought me a little bit. But I like how it wound up going anyway.

So. We get to see how badass Aífe is. One of the editors commented, "Holy shit, she could have solo'd the entire Singularity,...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXIX: Test of Valor

Feels a bit weird that Aífe's first chance to really show off is going to be here instead of FRW, but what can you do, when this is the main project?

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[FRW] Chapter 10: The Last Disciple

Somehow, this feels a little weird to have such a dramatic title for such a dialogue heavy chapter.

But, finally, this ends that long stretch of talking and exposition. Ugh, Yukio just had so damn much to cover, it never seemed to end, so I had to interrupt it and get him moving to...

[Hereafter] Chapter XXXVIII: All Roads to Rome

This wound up feeling a little short, even though it's about 4300 words. I actually had it largely finished on Monday, and then a wild CoVid appeared and put me out for the rest of the week, so I didn't get to the point of being in shape to finish it for a while. 

Funnily enough, Aífe...

On the Mend

So I'm not quite over it, yet, but I'm feeling much better this weekend than I was a few days ago. Still coughing a little bit, still a little congested, but mostly back to normal again. I'm going to finish Chapter XXXVIII of Hereafter and Chapter 10 of FRW today, and even if I have to release th...

That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named

Not gonna bother with a preamble: I might have the dreaded thing. You know, the one that's all the rage, right now. Not 100%, so I don't want to name it until I'm sure.

I'm achy, my head feels a size too small, my nose is leaking like a sieve, and I have a cough that's probably going to get...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXVIII: All Roads to Rome

I'm not married to this title, but I don't have much of a better one in mind, so it's sticking for now.

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Hehehe. Queen Booty-ca.

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone enjoyed their seasonal celebrations! I'm aware that a decent portion of you  hail from abroad, by my reckoning, so if you don't celebrate anything in particular this time of year, I hope you had just an excellent week altogether.

If you celebrate Christmas: Merry Christ...

[Hereafter] Chapter XXXVII: Joyeuse Garde

I had a slight problem with this chapter.

Nobody wanted to shut up.

I blew past 5K, then 6K, and I came really close to 7K because there just didn't seem to be a good place to close the conversation long enough to end the chapter. Not a bad trouble to have, necessarily, but it was ver...

[Hereafter] Chapter XXXVI: Le Bel Inconnu

"Why not?" I thought to myself. Why not, indeed.

There are several parts of this chapter I really like. The fight...I actually wanted to make it closer to a fight in FSN, in terms of how it felt, but it wound up like this, instead. That's fine. This is good, too.

I'm not sure how tran...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXVII: Joyeuse Garde

Since the previous chapter is all done except for the editing pass, I decided to get the jump on this one, too. 

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(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXVI: Le Bel Inconnu

"WE LANDED WHERE?" 

Yeah, I'd say almost 2000 km away from your intended destination definitely qualifies as "off course."

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[Hereafter] Chapter XXXV: Prelude to Septem

Another big chapter. Well, no one wanted to just shut up and get on with it, so there was a lot of dialogue this chapter. I hope I covered everything to a satisfactory level before we start off the next Singularity in Chapter 36. 

If I need to explain the Hrafnaguð joke, then I think ...

(CiP)[Hereafter] Chapter XXXV: Prelude to Septem

Last chapter before we start Septem. Well, technically, we start at the very end of this chapter, but only technically.

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