The status of my stories I thought I'd give you an update about where I am creatively. To Prevent World Peace is updating again.  It's happening slowly; I haven't posted anything new in months.  Lettering is my least favorite part of the process, and a lot of urgent things have arisen that are far more important to me, so it's dumped off my to-do list.  But I am making occasional progress on drawing and inking. One of my goals with that story was to get better at art, and sometime around its fourth year, I became so desperate to keep up with the update schedule that I stopped trying to draw challenging things altogether.  This resulted in my feeling bored and disappointed with the story.  On top of that, I had originally intended it to last eight years, believing that was how long my desire to work on that story would last . . . and then I unwisely extended the plot to need 100 more pages during year four.  Sure enough, I burned out by the end of year eight.  I should have stuck with the original plan. There are only about thirty pages left to draw and ink in the whole comic, and sixty pages left to letter.  I'm drawing challenging things again, so it's starting to regain my interest.  It's the lettering phase that's the biggest clog, 'cause it's boring and I don't wanna.  (Sheepish grin.)  But I'll work on it again when I'm ready to. Sukanil School of Magical Studies hit a point about 85% of the way through where something important was missing and I didn't know what, so I've had to put it on the back burner until it's ready again.  (Bratty book!)  I might figure out what it needs at any time.  Once I do, I'll probably finish the rest during the same spate of writing. Retrograde is the main book I'm writing right now.  It's entirely fresh and new.  Expect weird magic and gigantic plot twists.  (Grin.) Loosely after those two books are done, I'd like to make Tricks of a Teenage Werevulture my next priority.  It's the third book in a trilogy, and it was stuck for awhile because something was missing, but I've finally figured out what it needs, and it's going to be cool. At some point, I'd like to write sequels to Twenty-Four Potential Children of Prophecy and Weredodo Sleuth.  But because both books are fully standaloneable, I've opted to leave those on the back burner for awhile. My fourth, fifth, and sixth short story collections are 90% finished, but the rest of the stuff left to do is fiddly and annoying, so I keep procrastinating doing all those things.  (Wry laugh.)  They'll happen when they happen. The Magical Mayhem series is the prose retelling of To Prevent World Peace.  It's on book eleven (chapter eleven of the comic), which is a satisfying pausing point, so I'm probably going to leave it alone until the comic is finished, then finish it. After it's done will be the Avenging Angel trilogy, about the same characters in an alternate universe. After that's done will be a story about a brand new set of characters in the same universe, which I actually built the universe around.  (And then To Prevent World Peace showed up and absquatulated with my brain.  It's always been a brat.)  I haven't decided yet whether it will be a comic or prose.  I do know it'll be awesome. There are about a dozen other stories simmering on the back burner that I occasionally get a good idea for, so be aware that a brand new set of characters in a brand new world could seize my brain and vamoose with it at any time. Can you tell I'm always in the middle of multiple projects?  That's how I like it — it's more fun that way!