Update: Moving, Isekai Terry, and Unintended Cultivator

Okay. We're rolling up on the middle of the month, which is when I tentatively guessed that I'd be starting the next Unintended Cultivator book. So, I'd venture that a lot of people are rather impatiently waiting for me to say something about it. Bear with me, and I will do just that.

Right now, I'm about in the middle of assembling furniture. It's a slow process. The days of getting assembled furniture delivered is largely a thing of a bygone era, unless you happen to be buying antiques which I am not. I've been trying to focus on the difficult to assemble things first as much as I can. If things proceed at the present pace and no disasters ensue, I should have that stuff wrapped up by Thursday or Friday.

Once that's done, life gets easier. I can focus on the move part of moving, rather than the assembly part of moving. I also won't have to organize my time based on the 4-6 hour windows when things are due to be delivered and I have to be physically present. I can also worry less about when I'm doing things. Assembling and moving furniture always has the potential be loud and bother the neighbors. There is a noise clause in my lease, so I can't start too early or keep at it too late in the day. Unpacking boxes is a much less noisy process, which frees me up to work on what I want, when I want.

In terms of Isekai Terry, we're approaching the end of the first book pretty quickly. I'm not certain it will be done this week, but I think it will.

That brings us around to Unintended Cultivator. I do plan to start work on Volume 10 soon. It'll probably happen after I finish Isekai Terry. At first, I'm expecting to stick to a one chapter per day schedule. That seems to be all the fiction writing bandwidth I have available at the moment. Post Dragon Con, I'm planning on declaring a firmer and more permanent schedule. I'm still debating with myself about the exact details, but I will have decided by the time I get back from the con. That's assuming I don't get con plague and end up sick in bed for a week. Fingers crossed.

On a completely unrelated note, I've been listening to the Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor while assembling furniture. I've found them pretty entertaining. They are a hard-ish... maybe over medium hard... version of science fiction, but not the obnoxiously hard science fiction that requires a scientific calculator in one hand if you want to understand it. Just as importantly, there's an actual story there, not a science textbook with some plot window dressing. Anyway, it's worth checking out the first book if science fiction is your cup of tea.