[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Still plugging away at the story, as best and as often as I can, of course. I've probably done about four or so pages, probably, already today, more or less. But I may still need to average about five or six pages, at least, per day between now and my birthday, in order for me to finish its first draft well enough by my birthday, if not more, in the next roughly two weeks.

I currently have room for probably 110 or so more pages in the story before I'd then hit 500 pages for it. But I'm definitely still hoping that I won't somehow actually need that quite many, just the same, to then finish the story's first draft well enough here.

I'm not looking forwards to likely having to cut or rewrite a lot of the story's current text, and I'm not liking the fact that certain characters may potentially die due to certain battle-related causes in it, of course. But if those things have to be the case for this story, then they have to be that way, in order for the story to be written as best as possible here, obviously, once this story's finally done here, for sure.

There's a certain character in this story that I'm going to miss seeing at least somewhat when this story is done. But everyone in this world ultimately has left, now leaves, or will leave, their mortal life behind eventually, one way or another, whether they might like it or not, et cetera, of course.

Death happens, unfortunately, for a lot of people. And it still will, unfortunately, continue to be the case here in our world, for at least as long as it still exists, I think, if not even longer than that, until everyone is in eternity, once and for all. No matter where we each spend it in the timeless future to come.

I'm hoping to get at least another four or five pages written of text, throughout the rest of the story, that hasn't yet been written for it, before I retire for the night. Although that might still be at least a little bit difficult here, for various reasons here, you know, folks. At present, I'm currently trying to fill up some areas of the story that haven't even been written yet, at least, in truth.

I don't know if I can actually complete another full chapter's text yet today, simply because I might still need to add several other scenes to one or more of the remaining unfinished chapters, though. Or begin writing parts of chapters I've not yet begun to write for it, for that matter, of course.

Will keep you posted, as possible and appropriate and all, in hopes that I'll soon be able to get back to doing more graphics here for everyone's potential use and even perhaps playing a good deal of OOTP in the near future, folks. Lord willing and all, that is, you know. It is also still hard for me to believe that I'm just about to turn fifty years old in my own mortal life, but even so, that's nothing compared to the years I'll certainly be spending in eternity, for sure. Hopefully, I'll actually be spending them all with my Lord and Saviour, among many others, of course, folks. But only time will tell if I do, for sure, in any case. CD out.