The Whitechapel Project

Things still look good for releasing episode 5 of Whitechapel tomorrow. However, I have oral surgery late next week (I’m having four wisdom teeth removed), which means I’m going to be on pain meds and healing when I would normally be writing and recording episode 6. In fact, the oral surgeon specifically said “You’re not going to be able to focus or concentrate for long stretches while you’re recovering, and I’m pretty sure both are required for writing.”

Actually, we were talking about my day job writing, but the principle is the same. Also, I think I need my mouth to be working in order to record podcasts, since I haven’t figured out the “brain to computer” plug-in for Audacity.

On top of that, at the end of the month is the International Camarilla Convention here in Atlanta, which is a show I’m going to be working at all weekend. Even if I somehow kept the schedule on track around my oral surgery, that means I would have to try to write and record episode 7 around ICC, which is also pretty damned unlikely. (Especially since I’m going to try to record material at the show for my other podcast, the White Wolf Blogcast.)

To solve both problems, I’m going to bump the voting period for episode 5 to two weeks instead of one. This means that voting for episode 5 will close at midnight (EST) on Wednesday, October 21st, episode 6 will be available for reading and download on Wednesday, October 28th, voting for that episode will run until November 4th, and so on. I’m going to try to have my usual post-mortem post for episode 5 on the 21st, but we’ll see what shape I’m in at that stage. Think of it as more time to convince your fellow listeners to vote the way you think they should, or as me conducting research into blood, pain, and discomfort to help the story along.