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Last-Chapter Push NaNo Newsflash #1
🕑 Added 2024-07-05 17:53:07 +0000 UTCI'm doing a little NaNoWriMo to keep my momentum, so I'm going to do these public posts weekly until I've finished my draft.
I've been working on the Chapter 12 first draft, which I'd already coded. I'm pleased I did it that way - it's the first time I've done it - as it meant that I could sweep from Chapter 11 to 12 and continue the writing mood.
It's mostly gone really well. The amount of words I've got down on the page is great: I tend to get excited and write a lot more when I'm getting towards the end of a game. On Thursday, though, I had a lot of bugs to fix because I wrote so much on Wednesday, and today I hit a stumbling block today in which I spent almost the whole day which branches in so many different ways. It's literally over 2000 words on what players will see as a short paragraph of text. I was starting to get antsy about it because it's not something super plot-dependent but it's something I think players will enjoy a lot, and was almost going to cut it before figuring out how I could write the rest of the scene without driving myself up the wall.
Right now, because of that, I'm a little bit behind where I really wanted to be, but I'm pretty confident that I'll catch up on Sunday and beyond.
And in the meantime, I'm keeping an eye on feedback for the current public demo which got updated with Chapter 7 on Tuesday, and doing any fixes that need doing.
Monday: 4119
Tuesday: 1457
Wednesday: 5928
Thursday: 3675
Friday: 2264
Current wordcount: 494124 words
Average playthrough wordcount: 90527 words
Week's wordcount: 17473 words
Hope you have a good weekend!
