Haven’t gotten a chance to read your work yet, but for some reason was touched by your announcement. And how you seem interested in meeting readers halfway with Scarlet Sorceress. Anyway do stay well. From a stranger to a stranger.
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Yeah this is pretty much the exact reason for my own most recent chapter being 75k words; since it was one continuous mission, if I flipped it into multiple chapters I’d have had to exchange all those temps into globals. And there were a lot of temps.
Unrelated:
Me: Okay, so we’re gonna have a brief interaction opportunity with other characters. I’ll keep it to a short summary-style thing to keep things flowing and so not everything has to be a big multi-part conversation with branching and choices
Also me: but what if we like. didn’t do that
Me: What are you doing.
Also me: putting in a choice command
Me: What. Are. You. Doing.
Also me: adding conditionals for reactivity
Me: You stop that right now
Also me: CREATING TEMPS SO THIS CONVERSATION CAN BE REFERENCED LATER-
Me: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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I like having a single file for a chapter - it helps me keep what’s in the chapter unified in my head rather than having to swap between different places.
I finished a section I’ve been working on that’s almost 4000 words for a very small amount of visible text. It was a slog but I think it’s good. Shockingly long for what it is though!
I’m in the final-final stretch of the chapter now (I hope to finish it sometime next week if at all possible), though I have a bunch of to-do notes as well that I have to go back earlier in the game to do before I can really say I’m done.
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And that’s why Lords of Infinity is 1.6 million words long.
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So these people masquerading as being in the dark, and potentially also KEEPING UP the masquerade as far as OUTSIDERS are concerned, causes all kinds of problems. WARNING: contains talk about teenagers, drinking, and car accidents.
Julia walked in and threw her stetson to the coat rack, then sat down on a corner of the closest desk, rubbing her face. She looked like she hadn’t slept in a week. I couldn’t blame her. The feds being here, stirring up all kinds of unnecessary drama, had us all on edge.
“Heads up, Jules,” Matt said, not meeting her eyes. “We got a roadkill.”
“There was a party,” I clarified. “A lot of shifters, near the highway. It’s not pretty.”
“I keep telling you that’s what happens when teenage werewolves go and get themselves drunk in the woods.” Julia sighed. “Please tell me we don’t have to deal with a drunk werewolf kid who’s been hit by a truck.”
“We don’t have to deal with a drunk werewolf kid who’s been hit by a truck,” Matt echoed. His notes were all sprawled over the table and nearby chairs in a controlled chaos that seemed very little controlled and very much chaos, but I knew him. “It’s not a werewolf. It’s a selkie. Still drunk though.”
“You’re kidding me. What’s a selkie doing here?”
“Saimaa ringed seal. It’s a freshwater seal, lives in lakes.”
“A lake. In Europe.”
“…yes.” Matt didn’t look up from his papers. He didn’t have to.
“This is a mess.” Julia pressed her temple. “Exchange student?”
“No, local. You remember that couple keeping the music shop? Not the one with the jazz ambient, the one with all the tango records.”
Julia muttered something that, by the tone of it, could have been a curse or a prayer, then threw her hands in the air. “Screw it all. I can’t keep going like this forever.”
“You could quit.” Matt’s voice was very, very careful.
“And leave you buffoons in charge?” She gave us a fond look. “Never.”
I’ve spent way too much time with this, I have way more important things to do. 
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But did you enjoy it?
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I did, but I also would have enjoyed it more if I did the more important things first. As it is, I’m just stressing myself out.
(Also not my natural writing style, so it’s a bit exhausting to work with. But sometimes you need to suffer for your art.)
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Holy crap! I did it!! 
I’m so happy that I managed it lol and kind of surprised if I’m honest. But man! I did!
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Congrats @levviathan!
I’m sure you’ll make many more milestones on the way to getting your game made.
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So, added bonus here. I don’t have carpal dunnel.
But I did just sprain my left wrist doing my bicep curls this morning.
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I first read this as: But I did just sprain my left wrist doing my bison curls this morning.
I was confused.
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One day, I’ll be able to curl a bison.
When I learn how to curl…
…and when I find a bison…
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Here is something I read in July 2024’s Harper’s magazine that I am bound and determined to use in future writing:
Heck, I might just do something with this in Patchwerks.
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Well done for posting your WIP thread! Best of luck with it!
I’m off to do some deadlifts this morning, which is much needed as it’ll wake me up after a groggy start. (Putting the deadlift in deadline?) I’ll let everyone know if I see any bison.
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Here in the Philippines, I usually pick up stray coins whenever I go out. I go for the 10 and 25 centavos which most people would ignore, and they go directly to my savings. I also encounter some 1-peso coins every now and then.
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I thought curling was big over there. What sort of Canadian even are you?
When you find a bison you will run, and you better run fast. Bison sort of look like fluffy cows, but what they actually are is half to one full ton of barely-contained orneriness that have evolved skulls of solid bone so heavy that they had to grow a literal hump of muscle just to keep it off the ground.
The bison, in short, will curl you, and it doesn’t even need to be in Soviet Russia.
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Coincidentally, this is the face I am making at my past self allowing the Royal Affairs PC to have such a complicated selection of romantic/friendship attachments and potential romantic spouses/friend spouses along with romantic partners/V polyamory setups, blithely not considering the complexity of anyone referring to them in future games (I made the same face when I was writing the RA extra epilogue, but that was a while ago and I have rose-tinted memory of it now).
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I dunno, I’d be very very careful around an angry Highland bull too. Those horns are huge. And they sound more like dinosaurs than cows.
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And what about those reindeer up in the tundra?
Okay, enough about bison and Rudolph… time for me to see if I can execute today’s editing tasks without going stir-crazy.
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Can’t comment, never met one!
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