[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I go as the Lord leads and/or inspires me to, or at least I try to, anyway. The Game has many, and at least one or two of them have gone on for long times, it seems, through multiple OOTP versions.

Of course, I may often have other ideas for dynasties and all, but then again, I generally have a lot more free time on my hands than most here might, especially if they're still not retired from their professional work careers. Different people may certainly have different demands on their time than others do, you know, at various times in their lives.

Unfortunately, a lot of the time, I do have problems with staying focused when it comes to certain things in my life, for sure. That's probably one reason I've not yet been able to finish Lighting Up the Darkness as of yet, even in just a first-draft state of existence, though not necessarily the only one. Another reason I've probably not finished many of my stories is often being disorganized or losing access to various papers and/or computer files I've worked on over the years, for various reasons, for instance.

I'm not quite sure how the needed song in this next chapter will go, or what it will have to be like, et cetera, either. Among various other things I'm not quite sure of yet in direct relation to the story in question here as well, at the current time, to be honest.

I've been working on this story since November of 2019, and was hoping to finish at least its first draft by last December, but it's now nine months after that time, and I still have a lot of the story left to write for it. If I can just get past the climactic 17th chapter, I hopefully should be able to proceed much better with the story's denouement portion, at least until I get to chapter 24, which I plan to have as the final battle chapter in the current story, if at all possible. Then, once that battle is fought, end the current story with chapter 25, as sort of an epilogue to the main story, and as a prologue to the next story, in due time, for sure.

Researching certain things has been interesting, yet challenging and at least somewhat difficult, at times for me with this story, for instance. Or for any of my other stories as well, come to think of it. I hope to finish the entire first draft of it in no more than about 450 to 500 pages, at most, if I can, but it looks like my manuscript will be closer to 500 pages long than it'll be to 450 pages long, at this point. And that's not counting the various reference materials I'll want to include in the entire volume related to this story here, of course, even. Which would probably add at least another 20-25 pages of overall content, actually, I think.

I hope the final draft version of this story will consist of no more than about 350-400 overall pages, not counting the related reference materials included in the applicable volume here. But we'll have to wait and see if I am ever able to complete this project well enough first, of course, you know, jg2977 and EC and everyone else. CD out.