Preparing the polls for the jam is a pain in the ass 
I hope everyone here will give the entries a chance and vote for your three favorites.
Also, Send feedback to the writers that will make them very happy.
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I spent this October working solely on an entry for @poison_mara 's Halloween Jam.
It took me quite a while to figure out what I wanted to do for it but I figured it out and finally started writing on the 11th. I wrote about 18,000 words in 20 days and I only missed one full day of writing, which, while slightly lower than my low-ball goal I’m still pleased with.
My main goal and takeaway from doing it though is to start something and finish it. I’m somebody who hates endings, even with my own stuff, so this was really good practice and proof that I can make something complete.
I have no illusions about the quality of it, but that doesn’t really matter to me as much as it normally might.
Happy Halloween to everybody who’s interested in it <3
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Nobody can’t take this accomplishment for you. YOU ENDED UP A PROJECT IN A DEADLINE.
You can end up stuff. If you end this you can end anything else. You are officially a writer with a project ended to be reading by public audience is a big step
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Here’s my first monthly update for Exit Through the Gift Shop
- Wrote my first chapter (ever) in ChoiceScript
- Learned how to post it in a WIP thread and at CoGDemos and began to attract feedback (can I really have had 3,000 people view it in just over a week?)
- Discovered that I should have been doing this for decades and still don’t know what took me so long
- Wrote 8,600 words
- Began work on my second chapter.
- Discovered this amazingly supportive community of all of you!
- Finished collecting the majority of online content about my subject, reviewing all of it, and mastering the content produced about the subject in the 1930s (and reached out to request permission to use the small amount that, currently, is not in the public domain).
I am taking MUCH longer than I wanted on my next chapter. It actually made me wonder if I should just expand it further to BE the entire game, then decided instead to go in the other direction, to pare it back. I also recognize in this chapter I am creating code and mechanics that will then be repeated multiple times in each chapter, and across all chapters (taking photos, choosing the next exhibit), so I should just BE PATIENT when I have to slow down my story writing to build all of that out.
At the same time I find it tremendously satisfying even if it takes two hours to code ten seconds of a reader’s experience if it means they have a personalized experience of their particular constellation of family members, genders, names, and exhibit choices. It’s like painting cells for an animation: painstaking, but potentially exquisite when executed.
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I completed my Halloween jam entry, yay. Now if I just do all the other stuff I’m at least month over the deadline with…
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Here’s a digest of October’s releses and WIP updates! If I’ve missed anything, please let me know. Congratulations to everyone who’s created something this month!
Choicebeat issue 12 is out now, so do take a look at that!
Releases
- An Unexpectedly Green Journey by James Isaac (Hosted Games)
- Heavens’ Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress by Peter Adrian Behravesh (Choice of Games)
- Hunter: The Reckoning - The Beast of Glenkildove Demo by William Brown (game release expected December 2024)
- Ink and Intrigue by Leia Talon (Heart’s Choice)
- Those Who Refuse To Die: Book of Hungry Names DLC by Kyle Marquis (Choice of Games)
Next month’s expected releases
- Between Two Worlds by Liam Parker (Hosted Games)
- Magehunter: Phoenix Flame by Nic Vasukeva-Barkdull (Choice of Games)
- Werewolves 3: Evolution’s End by Jeffrey Dean (Choice of Games)
- Whiskey-Four by John Louis (Hosted Games)
New Steam pages
- Haunted Hearts Hotel by Elle Grace
- Spire, Surge, and Sea by Stewart C Baker
Current Full Game Beta Testing
- Haunted Hearts Hotel (Heart’s Choice)
- Werewolves: Evolution’s End by Jeffrey Dean (Choice of Games)
Author Interviews
- Elle Grace for Haunted Hearts Hotel
- Jeffrey Dean for Werewolves 3: Evolution’s End
- Nic Vasukeva-Barkdull for Magehunter: Phoenix Flame
- Peter Adrian Behravesh for Heavens’ Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress
- Dirty Dirty Mess by @lcaro
- Disco Infernum by @Liliarch
- Flashpoint by @SailingShells
- Murder at the Scene by @Eiwynn
- The Bureau Halloween Special: Witchy Woman by @ViIsBae
- Turn Your Head Around by @valence
New Heart’s Choice WIP
Choice of Games WIP Updates
Heart’s Choice WIP Updates
New Hosted Games/Hobby WIPs
- Blood of the Living by @jaybirdy
- Bridge Ices Before Road by @gemmarie
- Deerbourne by @profanedaisy
- Dusk and Dawn by @Tuskhan
- Enderbane by @aiglelevant
- Exit Through the Gift Shop by @Barry_Joseph
- In the Future You Are My Best Friend by @Dazial
- Nightmare Blunt Rotation by @nortama
- Red River Academy by @Bratlin
- Sabbatum Sanctum by @Ashi
- Spotlight by @Rohie
- The Empire by @MeowMeow422
Hosted Game/Hobby WIP Updates
- A Shriek of Ash and Fire by @NumberedEntity
- Chains of Destiny: Book One by @notlev
- Deadbury Academy by @Lys and @JimD
- Digital Dog by @Cain_Abel
- Drink Your Villain Juice! by @Izzily
- Eldritch Tales: Inheritance by @Dariel
- Grey Swan - Birds of a Rose by @Schrodinger
- Help! I Can’t Find My Glasses! by @Lacewing
- Laws of Passion by @CC_Hill
- Meteoric by @Samuel_H_Young
- One Knight Stand by @Unregistered
- Parasitical by @EnaMeena
- Saturnine by @Omeg
- Space Captain: The Dynasty Saga by @Jerieth
- Starways Saga by @Optimal_Crisis
- Strings of Fate: Origins by @the.normandy
- The Bar on the Abyss by @EscharCohen
- The Catalyst by @Rhea_Johnson
- The In-Between by @Daleko
- The People’s House by @RFKramer
- The Soul Stone War 3 by @Morgan_V
- The Unbeheaded by @OHH
- Thicker Than by @Barb
- Virtue’s End by @Crimsis
- Voiceless: a Siren’s Song by @Fare
- Weeping Gods by @jcollins
- Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven Part 4 by @JimD
AletheiaKnights Reviews
- Alter Ego by Dan Fabulich and Peter J. Favaro
- Breach: the Archangel Job by Michael Maxwell and S. Ben Luigi
- Dawnfall by RoAnna Sylver
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I didn’t post what my goal was at the start of the month, but I did make it! Finished my entry for the Halloween Jam at the last second.
And wrote 15,000 words in two weeks. Which I will never, ever attempt to do again.
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I got time zone differences mixed up for my benefit, funnily enough, so instead of one hour to spare I had three hours to spare. 
Might have put a bit more effort in my drawings if I had realized that earlier.
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Question to everyone Should I host and prepare the Nanowrimo thread this year or is anyone already doing it? I dont want mess something up
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I believe I wrote more, but mostly because I wasn’t able to spread my workload more evenly throughout the month. So much stuff has been interrupting me recently that I barely managed to get a chapter out, and it’s not quite as long as I’ve been hoping.
I guess I’ll drink to speeding up next month, because I want to get finished as soon as possible. It’s been fun working on Saturnine for almost a year and a half, but there are other things I’d like to do at this point.
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Oh, man, hadn’t even thought about it being NaNoWriMo soon. I’ll definitely participate, at my own pace, but I’m gonna set low goals for sure because 1) I’m me and 2) I have to lock in on job searching and other stuff (just found out today that our store’s lease isn’t being renewed in the new year, which I guess is life’s way of imposing deadlines on me for that job search I’ve been somewhat trying to do over the past whole year) (I do like the store and my coworkers so it’s a bit sad that it’ll be completely gone)
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Just count your application wordcounts to your goal 
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Sounds like no. Go for it!
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Done. Nano thread is up
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As you all now, I am new here. So what now? Does this thread die off and I need to go find and join the Nov 2024 Writer Support Thread, like a frog hopping lily pads, one a month?
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Pretty much!
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