Congrats you’ve reached the end!
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I wasn’t able to write a full first chapter, but I did write and upload what was mostly playable. That way I could motivate myself:
https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/wip-project-atlantis-lost-and-found/83887/3
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Eiwynn
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July 31st Update:
- Project - “Make a Vertical Slice Demo” is complete.
– 3 months of planning, writing and coding.
– Waiting for feedback to flow in; I’ve changed my mind on what to do with the downtime.
I spontaneously wrote a vignette of 1,250 words last night and I’ve been inspired by it. So this next month, I am going to develop a plan to turn this into a CS game.
I’m about ready to begin tonight’s writing session.
I’d love to hear how everyone’s efforts came out for the month.
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I did a significant chunk of work on chapter 2 including some cool slightly experimental structural stuff! I would have liked to finish drafting the chapter during July but that didn’t happen - still, I don’t have a huge amount to do on it.
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July Review
I wrote 38,000 words this month and feeling super productive since this is all in existing chapters which is always slower than writing fresh. I’ve been working on this game for ten months now and in that time have written 368,000 words–overall I feel pleased with my progress.
I’m close to a critical moment where I can post a new update so I am cleaning up prose and checking for bugs of which I always discover a huge amount so its quite a laborious process.
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Dang, yall be doing major stuff and then there’s me, a potato, failing. Actually, I shouldn’t say that, because really, my goal is to write SOMETHING. Anything, everyday. If I can write at least a sentence, I feel accomplished. Some days are incredibly difficult from lack of motivation, to stress, no inspiration, etc. So I’ve had to tell myself that even if all I’ve done is write one sentence, or edited a snippet of text, it’s better than nothing at all.
But at the same time, I see all these authors out there doing leaps of progress and I wonder if I should even be doing this at all because uGH.
I’ll just support ya’ll, don’t mind me. 
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What If I propose you something?. You can write here every day a less than 100 words short story. Or at least one for a week. That can help you a lot to gain a writing habit and schedule and still being something easy to do.
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I wrote 6 pages of notes last night.
Rewriting and restructuring my project I had a crazy idea I like and I’m adding a new chapter. It’s not part of my original outline so I’ve had to do a lot of beats, variable listing, notes, outlining, brainstorming for scenes and whatnot.
Dictated 500 words last night into my phone into Google Docs while I was in bed. This might be my new method for late night brainstorms. When I went to my laptop today all my notes that I dictated the night before where in Google Docs accessible in my laptop. Nice.
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Eiwynn
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This is how many writers (including me) start off. Keep working at it, as best as you can.
There will be days that you back-slide on your goal, and that is o.k. we all experience that too. The key here is to forgive yourself for not writing but then exercising the will-power to write the following day and pickup where you left off.
Helpful thought: Once you form enough of a habit to have a solid two-week period of writing each day (even one word) and you experience a back-slide, have a make-up day, where your goal for that day is to write twice your normal daily output.
If you build up on your successes, you should be able to get further and higher, each time you make a new goal.
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I managed to get 10k words done this month, though the larger accomplishment may be the (broad, sketchy, but extant!) outline I did. Grats to everyone on their progress, however much or little. It’s more than there was last month, and honestly that any of us can write at all with the state of the world is pretty impressive imo.
Cheers and good luck next month!
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