User blog:Atarumaster88/State of the FEmpire 2020!

As I write this, I have met my goal of completing all of the The Essential Guide to Force Exile except for Planets and Moons. Looking forward to finishing that next year!

On the Convergence front, I had a goal of writing 24 chapters of the story this year. I did not quite get there, but I did write 21 so that I am up to nearly 90,000 words on the novel. It's making progress, even if it's looking like it will be my longest work yet. At the same time, I want to give the final work of the Force Exile Series the polish and development it deserves. It's already longer than Fugitive and will soon surpass Smuggler. I will be uploading ten more chapters today as well to cap out the year as I said in my last blog post. Next year, I hope to finish the novel, but that will require a serious dedication on my part.

I have some other miscellaneous things I'm going to shoot for in the new year as well. I have works by CaptainRicky and MPK to review, as well as answer a question that I have only glancingly thought about: what is the best reading order for the series? Its chronology is all over the place between novels and short stories. For now, I will say this is a good start:


 * First Impressions
 * Second Guessed
 * The Cauldron
 * Force Exile I: Fugitive
 * Man in the Mirror
 * Force Exile II: Smuggler
 * [Harsh Light]]
 * A New Course
 * Force Exile III: Liberator

In addition, I am hoping to make more progress on YGS as well as close out all of my other little odds and ends. Here's hoping for a successful 12th year of the series!