September 7th 2026 Update

I’m up to about 185,000 words on Tempered in Battle and climbing. I’m fairly confident I’ll finish the rough draft this month, but we’ll see when I get there. On the plus side, I’ve already done several editing passes on the earlier manuscripts, so once I’ve finished Tempered in Battle and have decided where to […]

August 31st 2026 Update

I have Tempered in Battle up to ~172,500 words, which is somewhat surprising after my wife got paged ~5 times for work on Thursday night and Friday morning, completely disrupting my sleep schedule. Worse for her, though… but that’s how it goes. I’m getting into what I think is the final stages of the book, […]

August 24th 2026 Update

There wasn’t a lot that happened this week, aside from my wife getting back from her trip. I have ~160,000 words on Tempered in Battle at present, and things are coming along at a steady pace. Not much else to say about it, honestly… I’m just trying to keep plinking away at the manuscript until […]

August 10th 2026 Update

I currently have Tempered in Battle up to about 139,000 words and climbing! I’m planning to do a little writing after finishing this post, so it could be up to 140,000, but that’s for Future Ben to determine. There’s a lot to be determined for the story, so I’ll just leave it at that for […]