This week has been a productive week, although keeping it a constant forward progress has been a challenge.
With distractions such as the US election and game releases such as our @Gower 's next week release, trying their best to derail momentum, it is extremely important to focus on doing as much as I can in the moment.
Originally, my goal for November, was to be: Writing of the transition between Chapter One and Two.
I suspected this transition to work out to be around 30,000 to 50,000 words in total. Iām at 46,000 words currently for this, and I am far from done.
To make my November goal harder for myself, I decided to make custom-designed encounters for this transition, instead of implementing the random generated generic encounters originally planned.
I think the custom encounters are wonderful, but for a game that will have tens of these encounters, it will be impracticable.
Nevertheless, the first transition is the one that will be included in the āfreeā demo, so I figure spending extra time and effort on them would be a proactive way of āmaking that first impression.ā
My stretch goal is still to write chapter two for this project, but because I increased the original November goalās difficulty, I find it farther away than I did seven days ago.
Iām editing the last two chapters before I finish the last 3 endings.
This is a perfect month-long task. I meant to post at the beginning of the month when I was 2% complete. After today, I just hit 24% finished this editing run.
Finished Luptaās last little section for the godly patron choice and fixed some other odds 'n ends throughout but still havenāt done any of Vedereās.
In other news, Iāve started a writing project Iāve been wanting to do for months, and I got a hundred on my Civil War exam. Overall, Iām feeling pretty great thus far.
Check in #1: Iāve written about 2k words, which for this week I am considering a victory, especially since it was accomplished over all but one day in the last seven, meaning I have at least been consistent.
First check-in for the month. I finished goal 1 of reviewing all Halloween Game Jam entries, but I think Iāll drop goal 2 in favor of editing mine. Iām excited to get to work on it and really make it shine.
Check in:
Goal 1: 9000/30000 word goal. A little bit ahead, so hooray!
Goal 2: Chapter 2 is 30-40% done? Might be less, it is turning out to be bigger than expected.
Goal 3: Sleep schedule is still terrible
Goal 4: I have 1/17 remaining college apps turned in. Progress!
Iām working on old files, from when I did things differently and didnāt *gosub the big chunks of code out of the narrative. Itās frustrating, and I am very much confirmed in my decision to do things differently. Iām reluctant to clean it up, as Iām afraid Iāll mess it up somehow.
Not that Iām getting much done. I donāt recall ever feeling this exhausted in this specific way beforeā¦
Lately Iāve been questioning myself if writing is really for me. I feel so frustrated whenever I write. I tried to force myself to write but the frustration never goes away. Writing feels like much a chore to me now and I dont like it. Idk what do I need to do in order to regain my inspiration towards my novel or writing in general.
Iāve been working on my pitched story for Tales these past few weeks. Iām about 1/4th through the conversion of the current script, and Iām still adding in a few bits here and there to expand on some of my more neglected characters. Iām pretty excited about the progress so far!
Hi everybody!
I must be crazy cause I decided to join NaNoWriMo as well! After the initial euphoria, Iām stressed two times as usual! If you donāt mind the stress, I got to know many awesome and inspiring people.
I hope I can keep up with the pressure!
Anyway, I managed to write about 5K words in the last 2 weeks, and I reached the 4th chapter of āBack to Donkey Islandā! (Yes, I changed the title, so to avoid any copyright infringements).
Iāve been doing the same thing, Iāve got lots of ideas but the coding is really taking me out of the right frame of mind. That and the scope of a interactive story is much bigger than a regular story, so Iām making slow progress. Iāve been thinking lately if I should abandon CS and try to write a short normal story. A beginner canāt exactly give advice but Iād say just try to write anyway, power through the frustration and write tiny little bits a day, maybe a few sentences and see how it goes from there. Going back to my earlier thoughts about writing a normal story, maybe you could think of your setting, and write a very short piece to establish the tone and themes you want your interactive story to take. Just some ideas.
I have written anything this month, I am too depressed about my writing quality to write. I just canāt gather my will power to write something that it wonāt go anywhere and nobody will enjoy.
@poison_mara let me have a look. Iām sure your writing is far better than mine. Donāt be too hard judging yourself. As long as you enjoy doing it, go for it, and who cares what people say!
Itās difficult to be creatively productive everyday. Other than doing chores or procrastinating on youtube, I intersperse unproductive writing period with playing some strategy game (different thinking) or testing some code for future projects. When Iām on a roll with code I forget about writing, but then if coding challenges make me feel like a failure I crawl back to writingā¦
Iām debugging the latest chapter now after being tortured by its slow progress for 2 months. Itās practically all ātellā and barely any āshowā, but for me itās either tell or nothing.
I have been trying to work on a cs game as my nanowrimo project. So far, Iāve added a little something to the project almost every day in the month, which is pretty rare for me. I know that, because of some of the decisions Iāve made, some people will probably be less willing to play my game than others, because I break a few standard IF conventions to make something more reminiscent of a mainstream game. However, I really like what Iāve made so far.
However Iām finding that Iām enjoying the coding more than the writing these days. The coding either does or doesnāt work, whereas the writing is a lot more subjective.
Come on Mara! You can do it! When it happens to me, I usually write something else or stop writing and do something different I enjoy doing. If you want, drop us a line or give us a call, weāre there for you!
