Glad to see everyone else also seems to be having a motivation-less day. I managed about 2K words before I fell asleep at the keyboard.
Only thing keeping me motivated right now is the sheer will of wanting to get the update out in time to make @HarrisPS’s monthly roundup post.
2k though! That’s a lot of words!
I’m honestly in awe of anyone who regularly manages to blast through thousands of words a day, especially if it’s not full time. Like, heck, I’m sitting here with full days carved out for writing and usually only hitting 2k very late in my scheduled time.
Still, I can relate to feeling a little funky. I’ve been mildly frustrated with today’s efforts and only just now put a finger on it; I’ve accomplished my words goal but not my progress goal.
buut ngl I think the progress goal was probably a bit unrealistic to begin with. Sure, I’m on the final stretch of the chapter, but I also hadn’t properly storyboarded all the upcoming options (I don’t usually do that type of thing. maybe something I’ll try someday but I know it’s the kind of thing that sits awkwardly with my writing process). That meant that once I actually sat down and worked out what one of the To Do segments looked like, I was able to come up with a setup that I enjoyed but entailed a lot of elbow grease.
Once again I fall victim to the ‘writing different outcomes within a tree’ frustration where it feels like I haven’t made much progress cause I have to go down each branch before it’s complete.
but! glass half full! I really like this tree and it feels super reactive and tailored, and working on it has let me realise a lasting consequence I want to implement. Plus, it’s still a nearly-complete option that barely existed when I opened my laptop this morning.
@izzily
I’ve notice on the Interest thread you were saying that you were making a choicescript is this the one, cause if so I’m already waiting for you to open a thread 
It’s less like two projects at once but I did the first chapter of the one game last month and was meant to be working on the first chapter of a second with the intention of having two demos for people to play during December and then picking one to work with from January.
I’m finding something to watch on Netflix or crunchyroll and I’ll sleep on it for now.
mistaken identity! I’ve never posted there!
and nobody can prove otherwise shifty eyes
oh shoot…i just slapped my forehead. Ugh idk what is going on with my brain rn. I was getting a waffle to eat but then put it in the microwave just a few minutes ago. 
I JUST SLAPPED MY FOREHEAD AGAIN, the reason I thought it was you cause you started this thread.
I’m sorry if i’m turning you lazy something, though nothing is better than watching a TV show and sleeping on it. 
It’s all good I was planning on watching something before you mentioned it 
You saved my guilt 
A month devoid of writing. At least this kind of writing. I’ve just finished some big ol’ projects outside of the IF space (one more, which is super-fun, that I’ve been pecking at). But no IF writing.
An outline, complete, has been written for a prequel to Vampire’s Kiss. All feedback taken on board: much longer, much more romance (not lewdness, but time spent with ROs), a plot that isn’t a supernatural world-ending doohicky but far more personal and invested, plus some real quality of life improvements. Not sure if it’s going ahead, not least as I’m not sure about interest. But at least I know what it would look like if it happens, and I have answers to a lot of questions that exist in VK.
But strictly no actual writing.
Pro writing tip: inject yourself with horse tranquilizers.
Depends on person how much balancing/juggling/pick-your-verb that actually is, I’d say. For me, having multiple stories brewing at the same time actually helps me focus. Of course, if you’re trying to keep a semi-regular release schedule on all of them, it may become another thing.
After an immense writing day yesterday and making a great start on my next chapter, I am in a thoroughly low-energy day today and think that I overestimated how much I’d recovered from my cold. I am taking some more time to rest, though am decidedly not happy about it.
I’ve been drawing trains, pondering post-apocalyptic western aesthetics, freezing, because winter finally came to Finland and my apartment’s heating doesn’t work properly in significantly sub-zero temperatures (seriously, this happens every winter), realized that I’ve messed up my alien species’ plot threads and now I need to rewrite parts of it, and found out my worldbuilding is contradicting itself but at least that’s easy to fix since a) the story isn’t out yet, and b) fixing the contradiction isn’t breaking something else, unlike last time that happened.
But at least I’m happy with my refined character concepts.
Well, I’ve only gone and completed the update. I literally sat myself in my chair at my desk, and told myself, “you are not moving until this is done.” Surprisingly, it worked! As a consequence, however, I am positively definitely absolutely and most assuredly shattered. I think I shall sleep for like a week now, goodnight, everyone. 
You know I’ve been surprised by how many people from Finland there are here. And yes it has been damned cold hasn’t it? It occurs to me that I’m very fortunate that the heating in my house actually works.
Phew…November. I oh so wish I had more time to work on my novel because I know I have readers, but with life always happening, it gets so difficult.
November report:
Since they opened that new mall my job at movie theatre has become a nightmare, and my bosses’ worse organisation makes my job even harder. Luckily my contract will expire the 11th December, just after the long holidays weekend of Sant’Ambrogio (7th), Immacolata (8th), Saturday and Sunday… in the middle of the biggest fair of the year right behind the corner.
As for my writing, after a long list of refusal because my tale was too long, I decided to break it in three parts, still working on the editing.
I’m also starting to create my Patreon page, still a work in progress but it’s serious this time.
I’d feel guilty with a patreon page.
Yeah, especially once the fans started getting grumpy.