{"id":320,"date":"2025-03-24T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:15:09","slug":"in-anticipation-of-the-end-of-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/24\/in-anticipation-of-the-end-of-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In anticipation of the end of Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’re almost at the end of Volume 2, and that means we’re also coming up on the (conceptual) midpoint of Revolving Door<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I almost can’t believe we’re here. As of the publication of Frostbite II<\/a>, there are two full chapters and one epilogue left to the volume. In all likelihood, the last two chapters will be in a chapter set titled The Vanishing Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been channeling my excitement into sprucing up the homepage and building an improved story map generator<\/a> (not ready yet but getting there). The homepage now has a columned layout featuring the covers<\/a> I recently drew\u2014check it out<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Twelve years since I began writing this story, it is truly starting to feel like I have a fighting chance at finishing this novel. I currently have ~40,000 words of unpublished buffer\u2014this is the most buffer I have ever had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is all made possible by a silly but surprisingly useful lifehack I recently discovered: Writing is the only activity I can fall asleep doing. In fact, I fall asleep faster writing than lying there doing nothing. So, not only does this let me apportion a number of minutes of every day to writing; I can also do it guilt-free because there is literally<\/em> nothing better I could be doing while lying in bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, these last two chapters were written in January 2024. Yes, it’s been more than a year since I wrote them, so to say I’m excited for them to be out at last is probably an understatement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update 10 November 2025:<\/strong> The new story map has since been finished and the link has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re almost at the end of Volume 2, and that means we’re also coming up on the (conceptual) midpoint of Revolving Door. I almost can’t believe we’re here. As of the publication of Frostbite II, there are two full chapters and one epilogue left to the volume. In all likelihood, the last two chapters will… Continue reading In anticipation of the end of Volume 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-announcement","tag-administrative","tag-meta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rd.circlejourney.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}