In roughly chronological order, here's an in-progress playlist for the book. The first song, Butterflies and Hurricanes, is sort of the theme song for the entire book.
EDIT: Until I get the HTML figured out (I'm not really a computer whiz), if you really wanna see what's on there you can click the button "Pop Out Player" and that'll pull it up.... stupid HTML whatever that means.

An update in which nothing is updated...

So, it's been about 7 months since my last post and when you get down to it I'm only 1,000 words farther in. Actually less, since I've getting ready to delete the page-long prologue altogether. I have been working somewhat regularly (give or take a few months) on this, but a lot of what I've been doing has been rewrites and removals. I think the story has improved but not necessarily expanded much. I've also been doing a lot of outside work on it, like working on character profiles and things of that nature. Good for the book in the end, but doesn't "seem" productive.

Which brings me to a decision. Word count-wise, I'm roughly 1/3 finished with the book. Plot-wise, I've already put in most of the main events. Other than character filler and fleshing things out, I don't have a lot more "meat" to add to the plot pot. So.... I had quite a lot of the sequel planned out... do I need to go ahead and put most of this plotline into the first book? Just worry about ONE book before I try to plan a sequel/trilogy?