At the writing stage where I hate everything and want to scrap it all to start again because how can I possibly continue with such a terrible draft and what even are words.

That's how you know you're on the right track 😂😭

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a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . Alt: Actor Keanu Reeves, with long hair and a beard, dressed in black, smiles, bows, and gestures to his heart with the words "Thank you"

Nothing brightens my day like finding out random people have - totally unprompted - been recommending my #TombRaider novels where I don't normally hang out online.

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a video game character says if i had a coconut for every time some lunatic said something like that ... Alt: Scene from an FMV from the videogame Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, in which Lara Croft stands in a greenhouse-like building with strange plants and wrought-iron railings in the background and butterflies flapping past, with the words "If I had a coconut for every time some lunatic said something like that..."

It's been one crisis after another these past weeks at Chez Jenni. Hoping things will quieten down for a while so I have enough spoons left for writing - this book isn't going to write itself 🙃 😌

Hope I'm not tempting fate...

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Don't worry, he doesn't die.

Though if you read my novel #PotBA, partly inspired by Murti's beta notes for the (abandoned) sequel, he almost wishes he had 😬😉

a man in a suit is holding a tray with purple teapots on it Alt: An old man in a suit and holding a tea tray falls over backwards in a clip from the video game Tomb Raider

This chapter has been like Sisyphus' boulder. Couldn't figure out why. Then stripped away the dross and realised that, structurally, it *already ended* 4 paragraphs earlier than planned.

Cue Boaz levels of dismemberment and reconstruction 🙃

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a white cat is laying on a wooden floor next to a fan Alt: A white cat lies on its back on a wooden desk next to a fan

Changes to medication, health up and down like a yo-yo, and now another heatwave. Sometimes it feels like the #AoD curse is real and is doing everything it can to make sure this danged book never gets finished 😭

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Screenshot from Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (remastered) showing the main villain, Eckhardt, in a grey suit lying dead against a pillar with three Periapt Shards sticking out of his body

Who else can empathise with Eckhardt right now? 😂

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Screenshot from the Labyrinth level of Tomb Raider: Chronicles (Remastered) showing a young Lara Croft seated on a church pew at night, with candles all around, and a suspiciously large skeleton draped in a shroud sitting beside her.

"The book... from the library...!"

Note that Father Patrick doesn't say "labyrinth". He thought Lara had actually found the full-blown *library* – the library he *knew* was down there.

*cough* foreshadowing *cough*

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37. The first chapter is set in a place mentioned in the epilogue of PotBA.

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36. ... but that doesn't mean Lara is happy about it.

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35. Eckhardt's memories come in handy on more than one occasion.

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34. Boaz and Muller might be dead but – as was already proved in the Kriegler – their experiments live on.

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33. Lara's wardrobe choices, especially in the first few chapters, are *very* important.

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32. The Appendices will include a full timeline.

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31. The covers of each of the three books includes a secret message written in the Enochian angelic script made famous by Dr John Dee in the 1500s.

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30. 2WEI's cover of In The End really captures the story's overall mood (and will be included in the book's playlist).

youtu.be/XtkCkMwmqVU?...

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29. Not to mention Lara has some... interesting... stories to confe-- er, bring Kurtis up to speed on.

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28. ... but yeah, they're both dealing with a lot of messed-up personal issues individually, let alone between them.

Plus, they've known each other less than a fortnight, much of which has been spent apart.

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27. That's not to say they don't make a good team...

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26. Stating it up front: Lara and Kurtis' relationship isn't a straightforward bluebirds-and-roses (or even pistols-and-Chirugai) romance. At all. Apologies in advance to any die-hard Lartis fans.

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25. Really struggling not to give away any spoilers now 😂

@lara-tito.bsky.social has produced the cover to match with her previous two sextant-inspired designs.

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24. And learn (the hard way) more about how Irenweapns function.

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23. In fact, we get to see a LOT more Irenweapn action.

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22. Morgau ended PotBA with her Culcrys Irenweapn. Now we get to see her use it 😘

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21. Gunderson also makes a reappearance. And yes, like Rouzic, he's holding a grudge.

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20. Rouzic is back, for all you fans of sadism and body horror 😈

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19. The first draft of PotBA and the last book were written together as one long story.

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18. There will be a couple of familiar faces turn up - and several new ones, naturally 😉

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ePSD2 - ePSD2 2.7.2 (2024-08-31) Welcome to the new version of the electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, ePSD2, a Sumerian portal.

17. The Nephilim's language is loosely based on ancient Sumerian and will also have its own entry in the Appendices explaining names etc.

Hugely helpful research tool = Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Portal 🙏 oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/

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16. @lara-tito.bsky.social, Tina Ljubenkov, and Murti himself have provided tons of discussions, photographs, and even video footage to help inform the descriptions of Derinkuyu (or at least, those parts inhabited by humans...)

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