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I found myself in a city of glass that hung from immense trees like ornaments, each bulb connected by thin filaments I’d have found daunting to cross if not for my staff, whic...
2023-02-08 19:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Alfric and Mizuki were being weird around each other, and Isra didn’t like it. It was undercutting every meal they shared together, and Mizuki was spending more time in Plenar...
2023-02-06 20:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostA somewhat offbeat chapter. I almost think that there should have been more of it, not less, just a straight ten chapters from Cosme's perspective as a wild and experimental narrative dive...
2023-02-01 19:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
“My god, this tastes like grass,” said Mizuki. “What’s it made from?”
“Would you believe me if I said grass?” asked Rosalind.
“I would not,...
2023-01-30 21:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
“The werewolves are dead,” said Flora as she came into the apartment.
“Dead?” asked Perry.
“That old man whose tooth you swallowed, I went to go see him,...
2023-01-25 19:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the lateness of this one, the chapter got away from me and I found myself with a 10K chapter, which this is half of because I made a commitment to not kill myself with these ...
2023-01-24 03:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: There's a possibility that this should have been two chapters, partly because of the word count, partly because of the content. Also, as a reminder, Thresholder is roughly t...
2023-01-18 16:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
The Army Ship and the Jade Staff were both good gets, though the staff was particularly annoying to Mizuki, since its drawbacks seemed really counter to her circumstances. It wa...
2023-01-16 20:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder is continuing on from being a Writathon project, at least until the end of the first of three planned worlds, and ideally until the end of three, possibly with more if it's doing well and I'm still having fun with it.
The plan is to have Thresholder on a "always two chapters ahead" model for Patreon, for Early Birds. This isn't how I've normally done things, and the reason is almost entirely "money", largely based on looking at charts and graphs for other authors. In theory, This Used to be About Dunge...
2023-01-11 19:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostNote: No second chapter of TUTBAD this week, I will be pushing chapters of Thresholder instead, ideally it doesn't replace TUTBAD in that way, but we'll see how I feel about the workload. ...
2023-01-09 21:29:55 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about the recent lateness of the chapters. Officially, the schedule is just for specific days, but I've always tried to hit 10am local time, and haven't been doing that, mostly just ...
2023-01-04 22:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a new year! I've been thinking about what I want from writing this year, and here are those thoughts:
This Used to be About Dungeons is in extra innings right now, mostly because I felt like it. There's a strong chance that it drops down to a chapter a week instead of the current two chapters a week. It'll go on for as long as I feel like, essentially, though ideally it would make up another book (400K) or half book (200K). I'm not entirely sure about that though. Ideally I would just write faster and build up a backlog o...
2023-01-02 23:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Tilde felt like she was finally fitting in, though she was well aware that she’d made a pretty horrible first impression, and not that great of a second impression. S...
2023-01-02 23:25:49 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Mizuki stepped through the portal feeling like there was a badger in her guts. It had been a good while since they’d done a dungeon together, and all the ‘I’m a dungeoneer...
2022-12-28 20:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This was originally going to be a dungeon chapter, but the stuff that was to come before the dungeon ran long, and I really didn't want to do a 10K word chapter, especially since it'...
2022-12-26 19:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the one day delay, I was slightly behind because of a longer-than-usual chapter, then decided I was going to take a nap before final editing. That nap ended up lasting eleven hou...
2022-12-22 16:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
The mouth of the cave was almost wide enough that they could have maneuvered the house into it, but it narrowed quickly. Alfric slowly and carefully parked the house in a meadow...
2022-12-19 18:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the chapter being a day late. We had a big snow storm here, which meant a snow day, which meant that writing got slowed down. I'm also dealing with some of the good old one-t...
2022-12-15 14:48:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis is, I think, an extra final "arc" to This Used to be About Dungeons above and beyond what I had planned for, in part because I'm still quite enjoying writing it. There's a go...
2022-12-13 01:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I think that this is the last chapter of "Book 2" of TUTBAD ... but I think I have one more arc in me. TUTBAD currently sits at 800K words, and I'm not sure exactly how long...
2022-12-07 19:34:38 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Verity’s trips to Dondrian for the concerts had been times of incredible stress, not least because she always felt like she was pushing up against a hard deadline, never able ...
2022-12-05 21:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the lack of promptness for chapters lately, I've been a little fried, mostly because of sickness repeatedly hitting our household. I'm hoping that going into December I'll ha...
2022-11-30 17:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
A few days passed.
Mizuki was thankful that she wasn’t bound to secrecy anymore, and talked all about their adventure to anyone who would listen. They even had someone f...
2022-11-29 02:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Verity didn’t particularly like the Wildlands. They made her nervous. By contrast, Mizuki seemed to enjoy them enormously, visibly enjoyed them more than even Alfric,...
2022-11-23 18:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostDealing with a sick kid right now, Thresholder is on a hiatus that will hopefully not last for m...
2022-11-21 16:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
“It’s kind of a relief, in a way, because one way or another it’ll be over,” said Mizuki.
“I don’t find that relieving,” said Verity. Her lips were thin.
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Five days passed. It felt like an eternity. They were too cooped up, and in a way, Mizuki felt like she was the most cooped of all of them. She was supposed to be going...
2022-11-14 20:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
“You need to be more circumspect,” Ria told Verity. “Cagey with what you know, and how you know it. You came back the last two times, and we’re probably going to have to...
2022-11-09 18:07:10 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Alfric didn’t particularly like how they were doing things. They were running into classic chrononaut problems, largely relating to trust and secondhand information. His mothe...
2022-11-07 20:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis is Perry's third world, or fourth if you count Earth. In the first, there was Richter, a brilliant scientist who gave Perry a working suit of power armor before dying to an attack by an adversary that seemed to come from nowhere. In the second world, he became a knight fighting in a war against a callous enemy. There are others like him, thresholders, always in opposition, and it's becoming clear to Perry that this is going to be his way of life, hopping from world to world. Now he finds himself in a place that's doing its best impr...
2022-11-02 16:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post
