Hi hi everyone!
So uh. Good update: managed to write a couple thousand words toward my WIP, which is a lot more than what I was hoping to do. Bad update: I’ve almost completely forgotten how to do some of the coding stuff… so i left them unfinished lol and also I found out i got something majorly wrong during my research and now i have to rewrite a bunch of things…
Don’t mind me, I’m just gonna go ahead and scream for a while.
Hey everyone! It’s my birth month and also I’m moving overseas (in two steps), so this month is looking to be rather busy to say the least. I’m hoping to get at least some progress in anyway, as the absolute worst thing for me is coming to a cold stop. (Makes it very difficult to get going again.) That said, I’m setting modest goals.
I think these are both eminently doable, but we shall see.
Good luck to everyone with their goals this month, and welcome to all the new faces that have popped in!
i think this is incredible prose, if it helps.
being a writer is such a scam, you really have to have all of the following:
and when it all lines up you can absolutely blast out stories but most of the time it’s just a slog for one reason or another. i hope things click for you soon, i’m really interested in your WIP
oh :> that is so nice of you to say! Thank you <3
So true! It’s awful, and I keep comparing myself to a more productive time in my life where those points were lining up ever so sweetly. (ಥ_ಥ) I think that’s what is causing such a big disconnect, since I have been unable to write daily, but I can’t wait to find that sweetspot again… whenever it comes. Until then, we do what we can, eh? Trudging through writing-goals (love your profile statement btw!) we don’t want/have the means to reach, shaking our fist angrily at the sky… all to get back to that feeling when everything is running like a well-oiled engine. It makes all those bad times worth it, when it does come around, though. And it does.
I have to share these passages from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (goodreads) that I have on lil notes pinned to my desktop. They make writing manageable on those dreadful ‘regular’ days when writing is a slog:
“How do you actually do it?”
You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so.
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Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind—a scene, a locale, a character, whatever—and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind
Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we’re going to do for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment.
I really recommend that book for anyone finding their footing with writing schedules.
I hope writing treats you well too John, and thanks for your kind words :') <3
Hey everyone! It’s my birthday this month as well. Happy Birthday to those of you who were also born in August 
I released my demo last month and the feedback was very positive, but I also got some useful constructive criticism and made some updates to the demo. And learned some things to keep in mind while writing certain characters and scenes.
I’m also 5 followers away from 1000 on Tumblr so that’s been super encouraging and kept me motivated to work on my game. I never thought I’d generate interest last MAYBE a 100 people.
August goal: I hope to get at least half of chapter 2 written this month, if not more. I’m not setting a word goal as that doesn’t work well for me. I just have an outline of everything that needs to happen and work from that.
Wishing a productive month for us all!
Good August everyone!
August was always a bittersweet time as a kid. You have so much freedom, but September hangs menacingly over your head. An entire month of the feeling you get on a Sunday evening.
As an adult it’s a month like any other. Nothing special about it.
If it makes you feel any better (it likely won’t), most schools start back in early August nowadays, at least around my area. So you can’t lament the impending loss of your freedom in August because freedom already died a quiet death.
Oof, thanks for the nightmare fuel. 
I am near the 1k. At least is better thsn three words. But the dread voice in my head saying I am pathetic and nobody will enjoy this is attacking me Hard. Still I am keep working step by step.
1k is awesome! keep it up
Thanks Now I am in the new crossroad. I dont like write stats but I feel noone would read a game from a nobody without them. I am tented to go for fake stats that maybe change small flavour things.
But first I want to do the first part and then rethink during the edition process.
Stories were published without stats.
“Creatures Such As We” is one of my favorite stories to date, and it is statless.
I don’t think you should worry about it, very few people play text games for gameplay - they play to shape your story. But if you add them I strongly suggest finding ways for players to use them.
The most popular stats seem to be MC’s personality customization, which are only used for flavour text anyway.
Stats can be fun, but I don’t think a game that doesn’t have them is inherently worse. More narrative focused stories that aren’t interested in making the player pass much or any skill checks at all to reach whatever their results may be, seems more than viable and still fun to play. I agree with saggittarius though. If you do decide to implement stats they should be used in some way, even if just for flavor text.
I just have perks based and adquired by your actions and choices. It is a game more heavy on narrative than action. Perks open or close paths like for instance Hacking or knowing other languages.
Ooooh, this sounds fun.
I finally have some time to work on my writing, and am having great difficulty getting excited about the story again. I haven’t been able to get into a writer’s mindset in about a year. I’m trying to work a little bit every day, but it’s taking a lot of effort to stay focused.
Stat creation especially is a brick wall at the moment.
May I suggest rereading the story for yourself from the start?
An advice from someone that was years away. If you feel that the excitement is gone and all is like a chore you feel like you are obligated to because you were passionate about years of months ago.
Dont feel preassured, that person was your past you can start a new and you arent betraying anything if you start something the you know feel passionate about it. Writing shouldnt be a chore.