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Seasons Greetings
🕑 Added 2024-12-20 18:00:15 +0000 UTCWell! What a year it's been. I hope you're all doing OK at a time which can have a lot of intensity, not to mention SAD for those living in grey places (each year I get surprised by it, which is annoying).
I have a couple of posts to share: Honor Bound development journal Part 1 and Part 2 which go over the process of figuring out the story I was going to write, and writing the first half of the game.
There's also a post about Project Amble (my codename for my new project) and figuring out names.
A quick book recommendation: From the Belly by Emmett Nahil. It's a horror novel about whaling, body horror, and inexorable doom, and is a nice addition to the "people at sea have a terrible time" genre which I rather enjoy. (I am, after all, a big fan of The Terror.)
I think I'd like to get back into recording what I'm doing more: I have been outlining - I submitted my third Project Amble outline draft on 3rd December, and it was greenlit on 11th December - and doing a lot of writing. But the sudden passing-away of a friend from the writing community made me lose some momentum in keeping track of things; posting about Honor Bound also took priority.
Anyway: this week I coded the first Project Amble chapter, figured out some geographical stuff, and today I started writing. It is so very different establishing a narrative voice for a new setting, but also very exciting.
So without further ado, here are The Numbers:
Project Amble current wordcount: 9617 words
As Christmas is nearly here, I don't think I'll have time for much writing over the next fortnight, but I'm pleased to have made a start.
I'm incredibly thrilled with how Honor Bound has been received. There's a lot of things I want to say and do about it, but there's so much else going on that it can be a bit tricky. I always feel behind when it comes to marketing and sharing behind-the-scenes things and extras. But the most important thing is that I'm really grateful for all of your support while I made it. Thank you so much!
And if I don't end up posting before a fortnight from now, I hope you have a comfortable festive season and new year.
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hpowellsmith
Oh I'm really excited to share more! and am hungry for more of it to exist as well! I'm going to have a think about how I'm going to announce/share more about it... I liked what I did when I introduced Honor Bound but I'm not sure how much brain I have for it currently, eek!
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I don't want to make it sound like I've consumed Honor Bound and now I'm hungry for the next thing, because I love Honor Bound and plan to savor it for a long time, BUT: I am really excited to hear more about Project Amble as it goes along!
