First of all, Happy New Year. Last year I wrote about 700 000 words, of which 10% or so were for my Patreon articles. I’d like to say that I’m taking the month off to rest and recover after a year like that, but I’d be lying. Instead, I’m working on responding to feedback from closed playtesting for my yet-unannounced project, and working on some other stuff, which I can hopefully announce sooner rather than later.

There’s also some other stuff I’m planning on working on – just general housekeeping things like making a new portrait for myself (the one I have now is a decade old), just to take advantage of the extra time. I’ll be back to full-speed writing in February.

In the meantime, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding are all up, thanks to the support from my Patrons. If you wanna see more supplementary content like this, then feel free to support me here.

I will not lie, it’s been an interesting experience working on a project I can’t talk about for this long. Usually, by this point, I’d have some kind of public announcement, with a way to get open feedback, and I’d be able to talk – if not freely – then at least extensively about what I’m working on. Even Burden of Command was earlier along when it was openly announced.

That being said, what this does mean is that when it does get announced, release won’t be that much further off.

In the meantime, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding are all up, thanks to the support from my Patrons. If you wanna see more supplementary content like this, then feel free to support me here.

Another quick update this time. I’ve been real busy writing this month, and I think I’m getting closer to the point when I can announce this project – but I’m not quite there yet.

In the meantime, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding are all up now, thanks to the support from my Patreon. If you’d like to see more of my extended worldbuilding and commentary on writing and worldbuilding, then feel free to support me here.

I’ve just finished another chapter of the project I can’t mention – well, I’m not sure I should call them chapters. I’ve been referring to them internally (and will probably title them) as “Acts”, probably because they fit into a five-act structure, and also because they’re all really, really big.

As in, the one I just finished was 120 000 words, which is longer than any single chapter I’ve ever written.

Don’t worry though, I’ve still had time to write this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding. They’re all up now, thanks to the support from my Patreon. If you’d like to see more of my extended worldbuilding and commentary on writing and worldbuilding, then feel free to support me here.

Another update this month, but not a very eventful one. I’m still working on that project I can’t talk about. It’s probably got some of the biggest chapters I’ve ever written. The last one was well over 100 000 words, and I think this one’s going to be at least as long.

Needless to say, it’s taking up all my time right now.

Meanwhile this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding are all up, so hopefully those will tide you over for a bit while I get things prepared for an announcement at some point in the (probably still distant) future.

It’s been an interesting past two weeks over here, in between the heat wave (I managed to get heat exhaustion last weekend), spraining my wrist, and a bunch of other stuff all happening at once. I’ve been pretty occupied.

But that doesn’t mean I’m not still writing. I’ve gotten in about 30k words already this month, and I’m probably going to write 30k more before the month’s out.

I might also have some interesting news to share about another (already announced) project pretty soon too.

In the meantime, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding all up, so take a look at those.

Quick update this month, I’m 300 000 words in, and I don’t really have the time to stop.

As usual, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding all up.

Now I’m off to do more writing.

Another busy month. I’m still working on the project that I can’t talk about, although that might be changing soon. I’ve been talking with the publisher about getting some stuff in order which could lead to an official announcement. I don’t think I can mention any more than that though.

Meanwhile, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding are now all up.

I’ve spent another month working on the project which I’m not allowed to identify – at least explicitly. Needless to say, it’s taking up almost all of my working time, and it’s proving to be pretty big – both in the sense of what it might end up being and in the sense that it’s probably going to clock in at a pretty hefty word count.

That being said, I suspect there are a few things I can say about it that might give you some hints as to what it’s about without violating my NDA:

1: It’s interactive fiction (which might seem self-evident, given what I normally do for a living)

2: It’s different in a lot of ways from anything I’ve written before.

3: It’s licensed work – which explains the NDA.

Obviously that’s not a lot to go on, but it should give you some idea of what I’m working on – at least until I’m able to reveal it for real.

Meantime, this month’s Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, Adventurer’s Guide to the Fledgling Realms and Creator’s Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding are al now up, thanks to my supporters on Patreon (as always), so give those a look while you’re here.