Progress!

I managed to turn out some more material for Project Samurai the other day, and oddly enough the story seems to be gaining a mind of its own.

Case in point: I was looking at the files and noticed that I was missing the #3 chapter. I figured I'd just messed up and renumber them later.

Turns out that I was missing a chapter. Literally. As in, I hadn't written it yet, and it needed to be in there for the rest of the story to make sense, and I hadn't realized that. *facepalm* So I managed to patch that up.

I've also decided to go against the translation convention in one case. I translate terms to reasonable equivalents when I can, but things like samurai and Daimyo I leave as is, especially since "warlord" doesn't really sum up the latter and most people know what a samurai is at this point. The term I decided to leave be recently was tamahagane -- the very pure metal used to forge the best quality swords -- because the literal translation of "jewel steel" just sounds stupid and is probably actually more confusing than the untranslated Japanese word.

Awright!

Well, that showed up sooner than I was expecting.

I got an acceptance letter from SUNY Binghamton today. That one's basically my safety school, though I wouldn't mind going to it, since it's a very good public university that's not too far away from here and is in a very nice part of upstate New York.

As of right now I still have Suffolk University in Boston as my first choice, but I have several more lined up. This is the first such letter I've gotten saying either way what I've gotten into.

So yeah, that was a pleasant surprise. ^_^