John Louis

10/3/25: Progress Report 4

Added 2025-10-03 22:29:29 +0000 UTC

The progress continues!

Life has gotten a whole lot busier recently, so writing has been difficult. I've effectively cut out all writing other than ITUO, so I've made hardly any progress on other projects. I have, however, pushed the word count of Chapter Two up to 45,000 words.

I am relatively certain that the chapter won't actually feel that long, though. There is a lot of variation. Every deep conversation effectively needs three variations for Book One endings, then any variations based on the happenings of Book Two and then internal variations. It's a lot.

It feels like taking the extreme branchiness of the Whiskey-Four finale and extending it over an entire chapter (and likely the entire book). If I had to give a final word count estimate, I would say likely just under double of ITFO, likely 750-800k.

That is all for now. I apologize for my relative silence on here, Tumblr, and on the Forum. Before, I was able to manage all the platforms and write, but life circumstances have forced me to pick one and writing always should come first.