After tough shifts in covid assistance department, I finally found some time to write. And I managed to finish chapter 6, where you compete in the Boisterous Bucatini Brothers Circus.
Writing gives me the strength to support people facing covid issues.
Didn’t do much writing as i’m taking cooking/culinary classes for the next 2-3 months. No regrets on taking the class but it does suck that i have less time for writing. Maybe during the Christmas and New Year breaks, i may get to write something even if it’s not for my novella. Maybe a poem or a random scene will be good enough for me.
At the start of the year, I made two resolutions: to write at least 100 words every day, and to actually post a WIP here.
The first has gone very nicely, and I’ve written over 200,000 words total. I’ve gradually bumped the targets up too, to 500 words on a work day and 1,000 on days off.
As for the second resolution, well…there’s still a few days to achieve that! Half the problem is choosing which story to post, since I currently have one sitting at 120k, one at 140k, and another at 160k (I have to switch between every so often, to keep burnout at bay). I wouldn’t feel too bad about delaying this, though - it’d be worse to rush something out before it was ready. Maybe next year!
Still trying to stick to my goal of writing two sentences per day. I admire those who set their daily writing goals as writing X amount per day. I can’t do it because I start to self sabotage myself if I use that goal marker, especially if I don’t reach the 100 words.
Honestly, I spent more time debugging and figuring out the framework to make this scene work than I did actual writing. I don’t know if I’m satisfied with my efforts or telling myself that to hide the fact that I haven’t written a lot of words for the narrative.
I think it’s both. Personally, I don’t want to write all this cool narrative for the story and have it be bug infested to the point where bug reports are cropping up every five minutes when I publish the demo. I have done other types of writing, mainly job applications and the like, which I am satisfied with.
Along the way of debugging and such, I realized that the beginning of my story may not be as rushed as I feared it was. Specifically, I was afraid that it’d be too soon after the action packed and tension filled Prologue to have the next chapter also have a tension filled section.
Competed Goals, both planned or otherwise:
Wrote two sentences per day
Gave my story’s lore a much needed polish
Stored it all in one document
Completed the code framework for the rotating string values that will cycle in the hub section
Cleaned up the companion.txt file using multi-replace
Settled on a name for the city that I’m happy with and most definitely not going to change again /s
Made a title card (out of many failed attempts), used the *image command, and am happy with it
Figured out why the option to toggle between numbers and dots wasn’t registering for the Prologue Protagonists
Learned the basics for playing darts and pool
Was hit by 11pm inspiration time and wrote the gender choice that doesn’t involve a mirror, filling out paperwork, or is immersion breaking
Created a lot more permanent variables (yay…)
Binged a ton of crime shows for research purposes
Researched state and federal laws, forensic terminology, firearms, body armor, and folklore/mythology
Future Goals for January:
Buy an yet another external USB, albeit one that’s compatible to Thunderbolt 3, to save my files
Write two sentences per day
Continue chipping away at the Prologue
Start reading the book I ‘borrowed’ from my dad about gangsters/the mob/mafia/etc. in the Midwest
Finished up a little friendship/romance scene with Dominique for Royal Affairs today! The way I’m doing these is complicated - they can occur at different points in the game and will have slightly different content depending on what’s going on, which leads to greater complexity but hopefully will be extra satisfying and feel natural!
Today I finished chapter 7, where MOST of the RO happen! There are a LOT of unusual options: for example you could date a gorilla, a zombie, a venerable lady or a dandy.
Everybody, thank you so much for supporting my chitchats and for telling me not to give up in my darkest hours!
I CAN SEE THE LIGHT at the end of the tunnel!
Everyone, stay safe and never stop writing! If there’s something I can do for you, just drop me a line! Talking and chatting helps!
December was a success for me. I thought I’d be done earlier, but it took me until the very last day. But, I did it. I finished the rough draft of Life of a Starship Captain!
Happy New Years, everyone. I’ll see you in the January thread.
This was a pretty bad month for writing. I guess I was a little too stressed out from job hunting and all the uncertainty that goes along with that? Kinda took a holiday since the start of the Christmas period since companies are closed anyway, and am pretty happy with that this far. Still not about writing, though. Only wrote one tiny branch and some fan fiction drabbles this month.
I only wrote about 6000 words this month, which is well short of my goal, and I certainly didn’t get to it every day either, but considering the kind of month it turned out to be I’m going to cut myself some slack on that, heh.
Happy new year, everyone, and here’s to accomplishing our writing goals in 2021.