I said I was going to do shorter chapters this week in the interest of having a backlog, then I decided that I needed these particular chapters to be longer. This one is almost 7K words. So, maybe next week.
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The Pedder farm was a sprawling green place, and the smell of hogs floated in the air. It wasn’t as bad as Hannah had expecte...
2022-06-27 18:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostJust a note on chapter length: I keep trying to get ahead on chapters so I have more of a backlog, but then I also keep writing longer chapters. This one is more than 6K words, and if I'm to build up a backlog, I need to stop doing that. So the next two or three chapters might be more on the 4K side of things just so I can get in a place where I'm not burning the midnight oil too much.
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Removing the stone turned out to be a bit of a problem, though mostly because there was nowhere to put it. It wouldn’t eat en...
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Alfric was slightly on edge. Their escape had been cut off when they’d been fighting the huge lizard, and he had done his bes...
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The words ‘poop monster’ kept going through Mizuki’s head. The smell was surprisingly not terrible, maybe because it was ...
2022-06-13 16:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostI realized yesterday that it had been some time since I had made a State of the Serial address, so I thought I would do brief off-the-cuff one now.
When I started TUTBAD, the plan was to go 200K words and then see how it was doing, whether it could justify more from either a creative or business standpoint. Patreon was doing well enough, and I liked what I was writing, so I pushed on. The second checkpoint was at the 400K mark, where there's an actual narrative climax with the end of th...
2022-06-08 18:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
“We’re still working on paring it down,” said Grig. “Obviously there’s a ton of stuff here, and a lot of the certific...
2022-06-06 16:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostI've always thought that the worst thing about having a body is the knowledge that it can just stop working for no reason, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it aside from maybe some medicine, which is a crap shoot. I've been sick for like three weeks now, and it's just been because of a cold followed by a sinus infection, but it's been making me think that the glorious transhumanist future can't come quickly enough. I've been tired all the time and have had a headache nine out ...
2022-06-02 00:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
<Hannah, please tell me that you have that mapping entad with you,> said Alfric.
<Ay, I do,> said Hannah. <...
2022-05-30 18:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostAbout twelve hours later than normal, sorry! I'm going to the doctor tomorrow and will hopefully get some antibiotics for what I'm pretty sure is a sinus infection.
2022-05-26 02:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the slight delay on this one, I'd recovered from the bad cold, but then it turned into what I'm pretty sure is a sinus infection, so I'm still not tip top.
2022-05-23 17:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostNormal Link (note: had some trouble with this one this morning, should be working now)
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“But I don’t think I understand,” said Mizuki. “Wh...
2022-05-18 16:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostNormally when I get sick it's for two or three days, but this one is just now letting up eight days in, and this is the first day that I've felt like my brain was working above 80% capacity. Mostly I've been sleeping 16 hours a day. So, no chapter today, but there will be a chapter Wednesday, and ideally I'll work to build up a buffer of three chapters or so and not have to skip one next time I'm sick. Sorry. :(
2022-05-16 13:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostSorry, there will be no second chapter this week. I've been taking care of my son, who is sick, and am now sick myself. Hope that you have a good day anyway,
2022-05-11 15:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Verity was home alone for the third day in a row, and feeling it.
She hadn’t actually received the Full Orchestral Lute...
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The whole thing was pointless, and Alfric knew it. Running their own investigation of the missing people parallel to the one th...
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Mizuki felt proud of the garden stone and what they’d made of the place. She had been Alfric’s carpentry assistant, which s...
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“What do you mean missing?” asked Alfric.
Penelope was smoking a long pipe with something sweet-smelling, and didn’...
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Hannah was finding Isra to be a bit distracting. Their druid looked like a different person, and it was shocking how well the t...
2022-04-25 16:31:46 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
The most disappointing thing about flying was the clouds, and it wasn’t even close. Clouds always looked so light and fluffy,...
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Alfric had thought that his aunt Penelope might want to talk about the so-called ‘bastlefolk’, but he hadn’t realized jus...
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Alfric had said that being a dungeoneer involved a lot of travel, and Isra supposed that this would simply be her life now, goi...
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Hannah found Isra and Verity mildly annoying as a couple, but at least some of that was because her very good advice seemed to ...
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Alfric was overwhelmingly happy to be back in the house. They hadn’t taken quite as much as they might have from the dungeon,...
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Verity hadn’t been prepared for how long clearing out the theater would take, and when the scope of the work became obvious, ...
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Mizuki was so incredibly bored, and it was only the first day alone.
On a normal day, the full house allowed Mizuki to bo...
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Isra was surprised, at the end of the day, how little progress they had made on disassembling the theater. Alfric had tested th...
2022-03-28 15:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Map by the wonderful Robert Winslow. If you ...
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Too long had passed between dungeons.
It was getting warm, proper summer weather in Pucklechurch, and Alfric was surprise...
2022-03-21 15:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post