How do you juggle multiple projects? Here at the Calamity, I have about twelve attractions currently in development, with a host of ideas for others. However, being but one person, I cannot work on them all at once. My priority is, of course, the regular columns you find in each Volume II edition: the vampires, the dreamwalker, and the bus driver. These aside, I must balance my time between what attractions make sense to work on—there is much that goes into the calculus of determination on this rather fine point—and the other projects I have in development in support of my writing.

For example, Archivist is a command line tool I have been building to automate changelogs and backups of all my stories, notes, libraries, and whatnot. It’s live and it works wonderfully, but I am constantly fine-tuning it to ease the more tedious work involved with content management. Eventually, Archivist will be complete, but until then, its part of the balancing act.

And what about Groundskeeper, Rise of the Warlock Queen, or Unholy Requiem? More balancing act. I may not pick up Groundskeeper every week to work on, but it remains in progress. This is why you find the Under Construction column below, to announce what is in my immediate attention. As I must balance these numerous titles, you will find varying announcements in Under Construction.

Still, I am, if anything, consistent with the regular installments of my usual columns. Isabelle and Edgar are hunting Beings in this edition’s installment of A Vampire’s Vengeance; Solomon awakes to a different life in this edition’s installment of House; and the bus driver is fed more evidence to spike his fears in this edition’s installment of Bus Driver.

Let’s get into it →

This week saw a number of attractions get a lift.

Rise of the Warlock Queen has moved into a second review and round of edits. It is very plausible this story may be making its way to publishing soon!

There was some reorganization around The Conglomerate. More world building documents were added. A new library, Cosmic Horror, was created as a database of context for some of the references to appear in the attractions built in this universe. The first attraction, An’Ras, was migrated to the new editorial workflow. Website is coming soon.

Body Count is next on the list of migrations, particularly as research around the time frame becomes better fleshed out. This week, I finished reading People of the Abyss by Jack London, a harrowing description of the destitution of London’s East End in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As the attraction will take you through Victorian London during the time of Jack the Ripper, books of this sort will help shape a more accurate view of the times, even if the attraction is oriented to be more … magical.

Stay tuned for more updates! And do feel free to share what most excites you. What are you waiting to jump into?