Revisions for my spelling and grammar pass are done, but I haven’t even finished the first chapter rewrite. Instead, I’ve been allowing myself to have a break on the weekends. Next month I’ll not be allowing myself that. My editor invited me on a writing marathon for April, so I’m going to try any get my normal 1k words every day to have 30k done by the end of next month.
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A magical girl IF! I’m looking forward to it. I remember your analysis, too, from when you read every ChoiceScript game, I’ve been meaning to read your published work sometime.
Flatulence Assistant lol
Are there video games? :] Video games, maybe mapping the stars.
I’ve been playing Hollow Knight and I’ve made it past the point I left off when I first played, the Resting Grounds, obtained Dream Nail, hitting everyone I can with it. It’s interesting reading things again and trying to get a better understanding of what the deal is. Also I am not liking some of the Royal Waterways or Resting Grounds creatures. What a bunch of creepy creeps. And I’m not looking forward to traversing through Deepnest either but I’m running out of other places to explore, soo… yep.
Whoa wait please teach me your ways, I would like to break lines too.
(My answer deviates slightly from the question in that I’m thinking mostly about which ones to pursue first, rather than which ones to pursue at all, because the way I’m thinking of it is just “I’ll pursue the other ones later,” regardless of whether or not that can actually realistically happen.) When I decided to work my interactive novel ideas first instead of my traditional novel ideas, my thought process was that the Hosted Games publishing process sounded easier and more accessible than trying to find someone to publish my traditional novel. (This thought process, of course, ignores the increased difficulty of writing an interactive novel in the first place.) But also there’s something extra fun about it, right? Between my interactive novel ideas, I do have some that are just in the conceptual phase and not ready to be fleshed out in an actual story, so I’m not thinking about pursuing those, or at least not yet. The ones I have fleshed out more and are ready to become written stories, I’m pursuing in order of difficulty so that I can grow into the level of expertise needed to execute each one. And yeah, for me, I don’t really worry about if they’re commercially viable, even though I do want to pursue writing as a career. Part of it is confidence in my writing, and confidence that it’ll find its audience whether it’s a big or small one, and part of it is that I would see no point in writing it if that were the priority over my own interest.
Thank you for sharing it! That’s what we’re all here for. 
I watch with my parents. The two of them were incredibly impressive with their performance last week! I’m rooting for that group of four + Eva, and I wanna see Mary and Sai work together too.
You absolutely have not let anyone down.
As always, I use the term “working on” very lightly—someone mentioned fanfiction and I remembered I do have some of those in progress (“progress” also being used very lightly).
Good luck!! 
I’ve still been adjusting and learning at my new job, and part of me wonders until how long it’s socially acceptable for me to still be “adjusting”. I mean, I’ve got most of the basics down, just there are some… variations that I’m unsure about. I definitely want to do my best and not give up too soon, but there’s a couple things that make me uncertain, a little hesitant, to say if this is really the job for me in the long run. I don’t know. We’ll see.
I still haven’t really had time for writing yet, but I’ve started thinking about it more in the past week, opened up my Google Docs for my projects. We’ll see how it goes with those, too.
Edit: Thank you @LiliArch for teaching me the art of line breaks
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I’m calling 39k close enough, because it got me through four of the paths, which is definitely where I was hoping to be by this point.
I’ve got my fingers crossed everyone else managed what they were aiming for, as well. I hope to see you all in the next thread.
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Well for once I actually utterly smashed my goal and finished Chapter Two sixteen days into the month so I spent the other half nipping bugs and making improvements to Chapter One and Two.
This means I get to start Chapter Three tomorrow so looking forward to finally introducing Marian and the Sheriff’s daughter (I will need to keep reminding myself whether its Isabelle or Isabella as I keep getting that mixed up in my head 
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I had a very productive March, which was nice. I managed to finish writing Chapter 2 of a WIP that I’ll probably be posting on the forum in the next few weeks. However that means I must now start the dreaded process of editing and finding all the ways my code doesn’t throw errors, but doesn’t work as intended either…
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There is little time left on this month’s thread, but does anyone else want me to take a look at their projects? Otherwise, I’m going to start clearing up my backlog of unread visual novels.
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Hello all.
For my progress report for march, I did get an update done for Sense & Sorcery (though it was relatively small), I also did read four Christopher Pike books to help give myself writing momentum for All the Way my CP tribute WIP and I started working on that, probably getting around 8k words or so down. Bit tricky of a restart, as I always feel like I’m trying to wake up when I’m restarting on a WIP after a pause - what are all these characters again? How do they look and act and think and what are their secrets? What’s going on? - doubly tricky as I ended that WIP last time on a volley ball game just starting and so I then had a question of how deep to make the volleyball part of the game. Should it be a full sim of VB? Just a few scenes to get the feel? As CP actually had a lot of sporting stuff in his book and his were somewhat realistic with a lot of internal psychology and competitive narrative, I kind of went with that option with a few scenes intermixed with a minimized VB game. Still not done yet, but its nearing completion for that VB scene at least. After that I will have a ton of party scenes, optional hook up and fade to black scenes, and then the real real game begins with the thriller/horror aspects. At least that’s the go plan. We shall see how well I do on all that next month.
After that on to work on Dice & Dungeon Masters and then I think I might go on break for a month or two as lots of real-life stuff and other matters to take care of and I feel beyond drained most days.
Conrads on the progress. OMG. Yes. Editing is a four-letter word to be sure.
I am also looking forward to meeting the Sheriff’s daughter - what a cool add onto the Robinhood legend. Awesome job on the progress.
This thread got so very long this month and between work on the game, a sick family member, and tons of time at work I really didn’t have time to respond to most of what was going on in this thread. While I don’t really feel like tracking down the individual parts as they are several hundred posts ago, a few things I did want to reply back on.
On the Question of What Format to Give when Giving Feedbaclk: Back when I did writing circles and such, most of those would have directives to begin with at least a couple things that you enjoyed in the work that you thought were strong. Give specifics, don’t be vague. I think for IF this could be a choice that you thought was particularly strong or perhaps an RO or path that you are particularly enjoying. Next, provide helpful critiscm. Do not, in any way shape or form, try to be funny with this. It is very easy to accidently bully someone on the net. Be direct and honest but never cruel. Indicate what areas might be stronger AND how these areas might be stronger. Indicate when you wanted more choice options. Indicate what situations or scenes might enhance an RO or a path. That sort of thing. For myself, surprisingly, lower end criticms is fine too, as long as it respects the prior guidelines. If there are bugs or spelling errors, the author likely wants to know about it. Lastly, if it is a genred work, you might speak on that, how it is either working with or against the genre, and how the spins thereon are going. Obviously, as stated, be specific - where and when things happene in the game needs to be identified.
I think there was also a question on linear work. My goal for the year, aside from the IF stuff, I think, was to get a few more Sword & Sorcery stories made and a few more Sense & Sorcery stories made. While none of them are ready yet, I have a few short story anthologies that I am working on. Once in a while I try to pitch a Sword & Sorcery piece though no bites lately, but I did get a full request a couple year back, which for me is pretty good. As far as past success, I have some poems and short stories published in middling magazines that I think are no longer published. I will concede that while writing linear fiction is a billion times faster and easier than writing IF, it is very hard to reach the linear writing while working on an IF - simply put, if I have energy to write and I have a due date planned for an IF, then shouldn’t i really be working on the IF? Love my stories and games, but they are all like so many bawling babies at times.
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…I thought for a moment that On the Question of What Format to Give when Giving Feedback was a book title. 
Anyway, my end-of-the-month problem: I just clocked three versions of the same character in the same world, and I have no idea how to solve this.
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Apparently somehow exchanged ‘Write anything at all’ with (attempt to) Beta read Scarlet Sorceress, so I’m pretty happy with this month’s activities. Now if RL cooperates I might be able to finish the first playthrough of Scarlet Sorceress sometime next month, so go April goal 
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I made more than 30k this month! And I got surprisingly close to my stretch goal, there are only two more scenes, I need to add to my skeleton. I’ve been feeling down because I haven’t been feeling well this week which really hindered my productivity, but even with that, I’ve been doing really well on my monthly goals, so looking over the month as a whole has made me feel better.
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… lol, my innocence…
I have made decent progress, but I think I’m more aware of both my working speed and the time it takes to include all the variations I want to add. I’ve made it about half-way through my outline, though, and I feel pretty good about that. Maybe I’ll see the light at the end of the tunnel in . . . May.
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I missed this and just saw it. My dear darling Aletheia, you’ve not let anyone down. I haven’t been able to keep up with everything either, despite my best intentions. But there is clearly a thriving community here and I love to participate when I can. I think that’s all any of us can do. 
I don’t know how it’s the last day of March already but okay.
End-of-month Report: This month I took some needed time off and scaled back what I ask of myself writing-wise. I’m to the point where if I write a few hundred words I’m happy. That’s the pace I need right now. Every once in a while I hit 1000, but I’ve been chipping away at two versions of chapter five and am glad to be making progress, however slowly. I also did a public update this month, taking The Eternal Library demo up to 95k words.
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I need to adopt this mentality. Thanks for mentioning it.
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I didn’t reach my end of the month goal, but I knew it was a bit of a long shot. This chapter ended up longer than expected, and I’m still tweaking small things in the prologue. I’ve hit 30k words so far, though a good chunk of that is coding and branching, and there’s still more to do. I think my confidence has dipped a bit. I’ve been in my own head too much, but I’m still pushing through. I just don’t want it to affect the quality of this chapter. Wish me luck. Hopefully, my mood picks back up so I can be even more productive. Best of luck to all of you with your writing as well!
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I finished drafting Chapter 4 yesterday, and spent today playtesting every single branch of Chapters 1-4 for polish. Once my laptop has dragged itself through a 10K RandomTest, I’m going to send the latest chapters to Abby for editing.
I didn’t get anything done with Chapter 5, but that was always a secret nice-to-have rather than a necessity, and I had a lot of other life stuff going on this month which made it a bit bumpier than I’d like. Plus there were a few days of struggling to write before realising I needed to cut a chunk of what I’d planned - sometimes that just happens and is part of the process.
The Earth Has Teeth is now the same sort of length as Creme de la Creme was after Chapter 4, so I am on target in my efforts not to make it a gigantic behemoth while giving lots of breathing room to everything.
Also, happy Trans Day of Visibility to any trans people posting in or reading this thread! And happy trans day or invisibility or chilling out in your own space doing your thing if for you, like a lot of us, visibility is complex or fraught.
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Here’s my release/WIP/update digest for this March! Let me know if I’ve missed anything or if there’s anything incorrect.
Hosted Games Releases
- Leas: City of the Sun by Jax Ivy
- The People’s House by R. F. Kramer
Free Hobby Project Release
Expected Release Next Month
- Kitsune by Thom Baylay
New HG/Hobby WIPs
- Coyote by @MaGran
- Mavriarchos by @stickfigures
- P.E.A.C.E. by @Saracenar
- Starfall: The Last Bastion of Chivalry by @Asmodeus
- The Dragon’s Covenant by @RGHV
- The Iron King’s Heir by @hellanikthi
- Walls of Natrun by @Omeg
- Wraithbound by @crunchyteeth
Heart’s Choice WIP Update:
HG/Hobby WIP Updates
- Agents of Lucifer by @PrismaticOdyssey
- Azmuran: The Rise of a Vampire Lord by @JonBlack
- Before the Incident by @Terrorcrest
- Canis Canem Edit by @EMT-fields
- Dawn of Heroes by @Dvalor53
- Honor Amongst Thieves by @leonewrites
- In the Future You Are My Best Friend by @Dazial
- Knight of Greenhaven by @unoriginal_username
- Lightweaver: Chosen by @Dakimomoe
- Out of the Yinshan by @wizim
- Party of Four by @zozopuff
- Path of Martial Arts by @nickydicky
- Scapegoated by @fionapple
- Scarlet Sorceress by @ChanceOfFire
- Seafront by @Gokul
- Sense & Sorcery by @Zodac01
- Sins of the Crown by @PariahLight
- Super System: Monster Evolution by @Beastup
- Techblade of the Mage by @Riza_Nu
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: An Affair Of The Heart by @Doriana-Gray
- The Eternal Library by @leiatalon
- The In-Between by @Daleko
- The Lost Bride by @Printesa
- The Midnight Bay by @Little_Rock
- The Summoner by @Kezthier
- Thicker Than by @Barb
- War of Beasts by @Marlyena1
- Weeping Gods by @jcollins
- WW2 Armored Recon by @AllenGies
- Zomrise by @Dazial
New Steam pages for upcoming games:
- An Imp and an Imposter by Athar Fikry
- Games of the Monarch’s Eye by Saffron Kuo
- Kitsune by Thom Baylay
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Thank you @HarrisPS !
I started writing again, which was my goal, so I reached it! Now I just need next month to keep writing every day. But I am feeling the mojo again, which is great!
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Thank you @HarrisPS, as usual. I’m doing my best!
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