A Necessary Pain

...the need for a personal "Barbarians of the Storm" wiki

As I have already started Book III, which is actually the fourth in the series, I am sitting on a mythos that is quickly growing into a mountain. Because of that, I need to really organize my notes and take more precise, more detailed ones.

So, I am now rereading the three previous books and logging down everything in a journal, broken out into sections and specific pages for specific characters, locations, animals, monsters, items, weapons, regions, kingdoms, etc.

For now, I am doing all of this manually in a Moleskine, as it’s the easiest way to do it when I’m always on the go between home, work, meals out, drinks out, cigars out, in waiting rooms, or wherever else I find myself where lugging a laptop around would just be a pain in the ass. Also, I hate my laptop, as it’s just a glorified tablet with a floppy ass keyboard that I can’t just set on my lap without the thing falling over.

I am still working on Book III but this is another unexpected thing that is going to prolong that process. I just feel that I need to make sure that my continuity is as consistent and solid as possible, now that the world is expanding.

I wanted to push to have Book III out by the end of the year, but that seems less likely now. It is what it is, I guess, and I’d rather have a solid outing than a rushed one where I could’ve made continuity mistakes.

Additionally, this doesn’t help my growing stack of things I need to read. I crushed through some books in the two weeks after the release of Eyes in All Shadows, just over a month ago. Still, my stack is growing, but I need to revisit my own work and do this arduous task that I should’ve just been doing all along. Although, when I first wrote Dan the Destructor, it was a graphic novel and I wrote it as a self-contained story.

For now, that’s my update. I have to get back to the larger task at hand. Hopefully, it doesn’t take too long, but for now, it’s my priority before I can really move forward.

I should also add that at some point, I want to organize all of this info and data into a wiki-type database that the public can use. One thing at a time, though.