Thread:Sakaros/@comment-29301-20180903145046/@comment-29301-20190323150831

Great balls of fire, is it ever. From the blurb, it looks like Mali takes center stage. I think I mentioned before that I've been hoping for just such an episode.

For some reason I feel like telling you (since this is what I'd talk about if I had time to lurk in the Chat Room) why I didn't vote in the "Best Fan Fiction" section of the wiki awards, nor even the tie-breaker, despite my nominating one of the works therein. Even if I had been inclined to take a morning to shotgun through JM76's story, it seemed to me I would still have an unfair bias toward Danse Macabre, on account that I'd read all the stories preceding it; whereas the vote, properly understood, is for or against a work as it stands alone, and our colleague Ataru quite astutely pointed out the difference in how a work stands on its own versus how it stands in part of a series. Anyway, congrats on Darth Vandak.

Speaking of beasts, Torchbearer is up to about 39,600 words, and it's still in the rewriting/revising stage, but also coming along on schedule (maybe two thirds of the way through that phase). It's really stretching my brain - there's just so damn much to keep track of - but as I may have mentioned to you before, I've made it a point of professional pride/stubbornness to finish it according to my original concept as a novel, come Hell or high water. But whatever comes next in the series, it's definitely not going to be a novel. A nice little novella or something.