Status Report

May, I am so glad you're past and I survived you. June has come in like a breath of fresh air, and I'm poised and ready to go. Let's do this!

CURRENT PROJECTS May 5 2025

• Dungeons & Dragons campaign 1: Bard Campaign - Session #7 fully planned. We played session 6 the Friday before Memorial Day, and it went SO. FREAKING. WELL. I was floored at how much fun both I and the players had. It was the first session with them I've done on a new planning method, and it absolutely paid off in spades. I still have a lot of learning to do, but it was insanely rewarding and fun on all sides. Session 7 was done with an older planning method, so it will be a step back, but once that's past, we'll be totally in my new streamlined planning method.​
• D&D campaign 2: Tootskies Campaign - Session 2 is in prep. Session 1 went really well last month. We should be playing Session 2 on the 18th, so I still have a couple weeks to plan. Which is good because I need to get my brain together for it. But planning should be a lot easier now. Developing my methods for prep and play with this second campaign is seriously helping a lot.
• D&D Single Adventure - No progress. I was right that this took a backseat to just staying afloat on everything through May. June's weekends are going to be insane, but not quite the way May's were... and the other jobs have passed, so I have my weekdays back for work. I'll be getting a lot more done on this in June. I really hope to have this first one done this month.
• Criminal from Birth sequel - This was the project most of my wordy time went to in May. Some of these chapters were a struggle to focus on, but not because they're bad or boring. It was totally my brain not wanting to focus. Call it a symptom of the frantically busy month. Second Draft Status: 26 of 37 chapters edited. (7 since last update.) At this rate, we should be done with this draft by the end of July at the latest!
• Magic Items book - Outline Status: Roughly 60-65% through with planning, maybe? No progress this month, which is fine. Because... it's going on the back burner for now. I have decided I want to totally restart. I don't like where the last third of the book was going, and I need to set up things better with a better ending direction. I want to let it marinate in the back of my brain in favor of...
• LitRPG book (Subscription: Life) - Yeah, yeah, I don't need another project... except I do. With the CFB sequel draft nearing completion, it's going to go to beta readers after that, and I'll need another big project. There's the magic items book above, which I may go back and tweak too. But I've been wanting to write LitRPG for a while, and I had a basic idea ages ago I developed and cast aside. But I think I got the last piece of that old idea, and I want to develop this idea, at least for a while. So we'll see what happens. 
  Working title for the original title was Subscription: Life, so I'll probably keep that as a working title for right now. It may not quit the idea as it develops, but it's something for now!
  
• New Short Story (My Stories) - I only picked at this with a couple sentences in May. Ready to try and get it done this month!