Welcome all to the support thread for November 2025.
The writer support thread is a low-pressure, low-judgement space to talk about writing, share our progress and ask for feedback or questions. Thank you again to everyone who participates in these threads and helping to support each other.
Some notes:
Looks like we’ve some new games to look at for the Halloween Jam. Take a look and feel free to cast a vote.
WIPs
I will also be featuring some WIP threads here. Please feel free to take a look and provide feedback (or even just leave a comment) if you have the time. Feel free to comment or reach out if you want yours added to the list.
CoG Author Brian Rushton wrote quite a bit on patterns he noticed in popular games. It’s a good read if you’re currently working on designing your next game. Of course, note that there are no hard and fast rules, and knowing when to break a rule is just as important as knowing when to follow it.
Anything else?
That’s all. Feel free to reach out to me if you want anything added.
This month, I’m preoccupied with not one, but two games. Besides continuing development on Lily Adventuresses! Episode 3 (I’m now on the penultimate chapter 4), I’m also working on a fully-voiced version of an older visual novel, Ozone Ashes, which tackles the Ozone Disco fire, currently the worst fire in Philippine history.
Hello there! Appreciate this thread. I’m still going strong, though some weekdays are really tough. Since the project started, the weekends have been converted to workdays too . But they’re empassioned workdays filled with vim and verve, and fly by so fast. I hope this energy never stops.
How about everyone - what do you do to keep your writing energy alive?
I’m still waiting for my friend to make their Trackbear and I’ll edit this post once it has been shared with me. I did get some writing done at the end of next month, which was nice. I still feel like I’m not back in the swing of things. However, since it is NaNo month, I hope I will get back into it. This month, I’ll be focusing on a side story I started back in May.
This first video is a discussion about the difference between nice and kind. This serves as both character writing advice and general life advice.
This video is about making different conflicts. Mostly focusing on ones that aren’t violent.
Here are a few videos on writer’s block. Personally, what helps me is changing my environment I’m writing in. I’ll write in a park, go into a different room, or somewhere comfortable-ish but not where I normally write. Also, a twenty-minute workout immediately before writing helps me a lot. It gets oxygen to the brain, which helps creativity.
This is general advice about ways to get your mind moving again.
This one is about story structure that might help inspire you in a direction to go in. I’ve never tried it, so I don’t know if it helps.
I think I’m going to try something different this month. I’m setting myself a goal of writing a snippet from random part of the story each day, instead of trying to go through it chronologically.
If I’m trying to get back in the habit, wouldn’t it be better to do it in a way that’s fun?
Thanks so much for creating the November thread @ChanceOfFire, that’s brilliant! I’d love to have a link for The Earth Has Teeth put up on the first post!
During October it took some time for me to get back into my normal writing routine and I’ve not quite reached it yet. But I did do secret-project revisions and planning for the next chapter. In November I want to make and send over art ideas and blurbs (not that it will be announced or released for a while from now, but it’s good to get a start on them), and code as much of Chapter 5 as possible.
I’ve got a commonplace but major surgery planned for the middle of the month which I’ve been hoping to schedule for about a year and a half, so although I’m looking forward to that, it’ll put a dent in writing time and energy. I’ll probably either be spending a ton of time online as I’ll have nothing else to do, or I’ll be absent as I’ll be sleeping a lot, heh.
That said, I’m feeling recovered from covid so that bodes well for focus/energy/etc before the medical stuff happens. Gonna post October’s WIP and release digest in a minute.
I’m going to try and do a bit of a push this month, in terms of the volume of my writing. Trying to wrap up the duology means several beastly-long chapters ahead, and I’d like to be through at least the set of scenes that differ based on ‘route’ by the end of the month, so that I might release Chapter Seven maybe sometime in January.
So in bullet point form:
Finish the six ‘route’ scenes in Chapter Seven.
I’m done with one already, leaving five to go. Five scenes in a month is a bit of a stretch, but doable if I really manage to lock in, so hopefully I’ll have a good go at it.
Good luck to everyone with their writing/plotting’/assorted other ambitions for the month!
Yes, thank you and good fortune with your surgery.
For this month writing goals are to finally finish my prior goals for “Sense & Sorcery” (3 excerpts and then do the update) and “All the Way” (at least 2 new chapters). Still wish I could do nano but I think my next go at nano will need to wait till next year as it just isn’t practical right now, and besides, if the purpose it to create new stories, wips, and such, then I’ve just created two new wips in the last two months in the form of “Blood & Blooms” and “Celtic Cry” …. Much luck to all on your November writing.
I don’t really have a writing goal this month cause I’ve already finished it last month. But what I can say is that I’m almost through with the beta testing. It’s all coming along fine.
It was difficult to manual test but with the help of the readers and myself we got it done.
I don’t mean to brag . But am I the only one here that doesn’t get writers block?
I’m genuinely curious. How does it work? When it happens do you find it hard to think or write?
For me, ideas are always firing in my head that I become too confused on which one to choose. I can’t really remember a time where I couldn’t come up with something or had writers block.
I get writers fatigue though. Sometimes you get burned out.
That’s very true my friend. That’s why I make sure to write down all my ideas/plots in a list and choose the best suitable one.
I write it. Then I go over and make any necessary adjustments/fixes/changes. You have to filter out some of those ideas that won’t make the cut. But most of the time things just click the right way when I’m in the zone.
. But they’re empassioned workdays filled with vim and verve, and fly by so fast. I hope this energy never stops.
. But am I the only one here that doesn’t get writers block?