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Sunday Writing Update (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-19 19:58:43
Imported:
2026-06

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I'm currently in the middle of writing 261. It's going well. I'm planning to post it around this same time of day on this coming Friday.

I plan to be into 262 before posting 261.

People have asked about backlog. I don't expect to be able to seriously think of how to go about longterm backlog building for the next few weeks. What I'm doing now is more focused on setting a pace that allows me to get this particular section of the story just right. Doing this might result in a little bit of backlog; that would be very nice. I only just got myself back on track a couple of chapters ago, though, and figuring out how to build a significant backlog is something I'd like to do after I've seen how writing this way works for me and after I've gotten us to a different place in the narrative.

So that's what's happening! I'll see you on Friday.

If you're not caught up, the new chapters are all here:

https://www.patreon.com/collection/1784187?view=condensed

Comments

S

This week I stopped at a Turkish café I had never previously visited, in a New England city I've been visiting for decades. They have a drink where they steep a chai bag in a hot cider - they call it a chaider, which is pretty cute, and it's even better than it sounds.

S
>>190951084

I hope your fall is as cozy and restorative as my beverage.

puppy0cam

Chapter 53 (The Auriad): > The professor’s magic bomb had come with instructions for Thenn-ar. It was supposed to be used in conjunction with a second one. According to Kibby, it was not designed to make a gigantic boom that would destroy everything, but to neatly demolish just a couple of key areas in a way that would look like it could have been an accident. looking back, this seems like a really odd course of action for Ro-den to skirt around the justice system. Artonan justice doesn't revolve around juries searching for reasonable doubt, it revolves around mind reading. Why did Ro-den think this was a good way to deny Yipalk the lab while escaping consequences for himself? If his plan of having Alden rescue the assistants from thegund had worked, he probably could have wriggled out of that much trouble given that nobody would have been truly harmed by his illegal use of an avowed. But a part of the lab collapsing around the time his magically weak assistants somehow survived a magically violent teleportation to artona III from thegund would not have escaped notice and consequences.

J Reynolds
>>190951668

Chapter 39: “Are you blowing up the lab so that the corporation can’t have the rest of your stuff?” “I’m strategically tidying a few sections of it. You’ll need to take two bombs, actually, and deliver them to Thenn. One today. One tomorrow. They’re quite unusual and magically potent, and I don’t want them to strain your skill too much.” Thenn-ar was the leader at the lab. She’d be one of the last two people evacuated. “Great. Now I’m complicit in blowing up buildings.” “It’s just some light remodeling really,” Joe said. He glanced over at Alden. “So you’ll do it?” ---- Joe was skirting the edges of plausible deniability. If things had gone as he had planned, there would have been some mild damage done. I'm guessing of the variety that could be blamed on chaos weakening some parts of the complex. That the parts of the building just happened to be particularly crucial to the study of chaos? Well, them's the breaks. Who could prove otherwise? Then the bomb materials got into the hands of Kibee, who wanted maximum destruction. And got it. Just another segment in the perfect storm that consumed Joe.

Anthony Lutz

I think i need to disable notifications for Super Supportive on Royal Road... the sadness i feel after the excitement for notifications not being a "new" chapter here is quite profound.

Dervish

I just got around to reading the removed chapters. AFTER finishing the new ones. I was really glad to see the interactions with some new as well as old characters that didn't make it into the new story line -- mostly because Sleyca's comments talk about WHY, and it really made sense. I just hope these little vignettes remain canon and become parts of future Sleycaverse novellas! Emiljana's a fascinating character that I also care about, and of course Porti-loth would make for one heck of a good mentor figure. Thanks, again, for a fun chapter and I can't wait until the next one comes (Friday, I think!)

Super Super Supportive Supporter

“So, instead, he held the handle of the bomb case tightly. He’d let the putty mold around the hand with the case in it, and when his skill kicked in, it froze into a perfect finger-shaped grip.” SLEYCAAAAAAA! AM I READING THIS WRONGLY OR SHOULD HE HAVE NOTICED THAT HE DIDNT FEEL THE CASE’S WEIGHT?, he said calmly.

PeasOfCrab
>>191503055

I think he stacked the putty and case into a single burden. Basically just gave the handle a perfectly-Alden-held-grip

Super Super Supportive Supporter

“It was so he could feel the darkness of death,” said Kibby. “And come to a greater knowledge of what he’d done wrong.” “Deep,” said Alden, nodding in understanding. “You mean profound.” “Profound.”