Extended Writing Update

Whew, I have been working this week. And tbh? Loving it. The demo is almost ready - I don't have a release date yet but I'll post one in the next couple days. It's been a mad dash as usual but mostly because I've rewritten like half of it. This week alone I banged out 9k words which puts the final version of the alpha at about 13k currently (Book One's first chapter was a little less than 12k words). I expect it to total at about 14-15k by the time I'm done.

Also, the next RO bonus story will release tomorrow :) After that there'll one more plus be the monthly extra, which is another bonus story this time around.

I spent a lot of today working on some little RO moments. We're not diving right into pages-and-pages of romance because, well, that would be a bit clunky structurally and I care a lot about making the romances feel like they're a natural part of the larger story. But I'm really happy with these moments for all three ROs where there's an acknowledgement of the relationship and an opportunity to show some closeness early on.

I've been liking the way things are naturally falling into the chapter - like for example, one thing I've been worried about is how I'm going to convey just how much the end of book one affects. Or at least, how to do that in a show-don't-tell way because nobody likes a flat list of updates, myself included. But as the characters pop in and out of different places, I find that they're all involved in some pocket of the city that has something interesting going on. If I have them mention that, then the problem's solved. The player knows a bit more about what's going on, but we don't have to derail the plot every five seconds for minor things.

Here's this week's preview :)

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I step back, shooting Keo a smile when [keoanai_heSheThey] look[s_k] confused. "You're too distracting," I tease.