We’re almost at the end of the 2024 A-Z Blog Challenge, and it seems that for the first time I’ve managed to stay entirely on topic.

I don’t think that’s happened before… it feels weird.

Anyway, with all I’ve written so far this month, what else is there to do?

Quite a bit, as it happens, before the product is finished.

Looking at my backlog, I see:

• Finish drafting domain aspects (I’ve drafted 7/35 so far — 20%)
• Polish the domain aspects, including updating the older ones to the new format.
• Finishing building out the random tables — I’ll have several per domain, but also a fair number of supporting tables.
  • I had no idea when I started that random tables were going to be part of this, but I’m finding a lot of value to them already.
• Gather the random tables into a workbook.
• Draft remaining topics in the book
  • Duties (based on Hungers of a Patron, but can be beefed up).
  • Quests (I started this last week but got sidetracked).
  • Dogma/Tenets (barely touched on! I expected to do this weeks ago).
  • Portfolio to domain mapping.
  • How to apply aspects.
  • Generating deity names… I’ve got several tables for this, but I didn’t write them. I should probably do something of my own for the book.
• Review monsters (4,312 of them), characters (1,758 of them), and templates (440 of them) to identify how they might be associated with domains.
  • … not looking forward to this one. I’ll do it, but probably won’t post it here.
• Example Deities… at a minimum, a selection of deities to illustrate, but it might be a full pantheon.
  • I started drafting one a couple weeks ago and haven’t touched it since.

All in all, a fair bit of writing and development to do.

This doesn’t even touch on the changes and updates I need to make (finish making… I started a while ago and got stalled) to my publishing workflow.