07/10/2023 Patreon Devlog (WSC) (Patreon)

Summary

• Started working on Kav's chapter 9 scenes and variations
• Edited chapter 3
• New BG and BG sketch!

Ramble

This was another pretty hard week for me and I spent most of Friday with a horrific headache. Funnily enough I realised I wrote almost the exact same amount of words I wrote last week (7378 last week and 7387 this week).

As a side note, I really detest Patreon's new set up for posts.

I try to not knee-jerk react to changes because I feel like people are inherently predisposed to dislike change - even, sometimes, when it's better. I like giving updates a chance.

But the experience is just overtly worse now than it was and I hate it.

There's no real reason to share this. I just want to whine. (づ￣ 3￣)づ

Anyway, let's jump in to WSC updates

Writing

So this week I did two major writing things - I started working on Chapter 9 and I also worked on editing chapter 3. Which is the simultaneous and non-chronological thing I mentioned last time.

Now there isn't a lot of shared/common content in Chapter 9 but, as always, I do have to go through that content to create any Kav-related variations. And the Kav variations are a little more substantial because of his situation.

I also fully edited chapter 3 (Asher's path).

Chapter 3 is the brand new chapter I added to address some pacing and also lay additional foundation for the plot. So I actually made quite significant edits to this chapter, fleshing it out a fair amount. I'm much happier with it now. It'll get another few passes as I edit other character paths but I'm quite happy with the edits there.

So all in all - still working on Kav chapter 9 and got chapter 3 edited and cleaned up.

The total word count now is 387,500(ish) words so still very much on track for completing the draft by the deadline. I have about 78000 words left to hit my target. Which...whether or not that target is an accurate estimate of the final word count remains to be seen. But we'll see.

Art

I received a new completed background and another sketch for The Ophelia. So BGs are still trucking along and that's it for artwork.

And other than doing a non-canon image of Yren, I didn't really do any other art. It was a very writing focused week.

Other

Nothing to report here this week either.

Mini GS Check-in

GS doesn't really need full updates anymore but I figured I'd still put in a mini-update here.

The art book is mostly finished but I'm contemplating how I want to distribute it to backers. And I've started work on the lore book. This means both compiling information and building the master page templates for formatting it into a book.

There's a lot so the lore book will take a little while for sure.

Upcoming

Writing.

I'd like to finish up Kav's scenes this week if possible. It's about 3500 more words so I should be able to do that and then maybe get a fair bit of Noel's content done as well.

And that's about it for this week's dev log.