Progress Report 2024.03.01: March Progress & Plans

Hi friends,

Happy March!

This month I am rolling ahead with Episode 3 Part 3 Route 2! I should be starting this on Monday. I have a few more dialogue branches to finish up with the other route, but I am momentarily pausing it so I can get moving on other things. February was extremely bumpy due to unexpected personal and family reasons, so I am about a month behind my projected schedule from the roadmap.

I am hoping that March is going to be a little easier since I have less on my plate now. I am also re-instigating my writing challenge from last November, where I write at least 300 words every day. The goal is to do more and hit 50,000 words, which would help me get caught up as much as I can and get some of the lingering problem spots finished.

If I can get more finished, I am hoping I can roll out a few more sneak peeks as well in addition to the bi-weekly ones. Episode 3 is very large, very complicated, and the end of an act; there’s a lot going on and I am very excited for folks to play through the back half when it’s ready.

Additionally, I wanted to talk briefly about how my progress reports are going. Since there are only two per month at the moment, I’m struggling a bit to figure out what exactly it is folks would like updates on. Right now, I am in the cycle of “I wrote things, work got done, thumbs up! 👍”, but they feel a bit bare to me. I can talk more about my writing and creation process, but it’s hard to write directly about the material I’m creating without going into in-depth spoilers. I’ve done progress charts in the past that give a visual for how the branches of a scene work, but these aren’t necessarily something I can do every time.

If you’d like to offer thoughts about things you want to see in my progress reports and updates, please let me know.

As always, thank you for your continued support! 💖