The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update 15/May/2020 (Patreon)

What a week it's been :D

So I'm still reeling from the release of Book Two and still unbelievably happy/relieved at how many people seem to be enjoying it!!

But I was also seriously excited to get onto Book Three and jump back into the writing.

I've recently changed how I view my chapters for writing. It was getting quite overwhelming trying to work out how to get all the different branches, variations, and scenes into a chapter, but I read an article on improving writing where they suggested viewing scenes within chapters.

And boy, has that helped a lot! Just breaking down the chapter into scenes within it has helped my mind get on top of what is a lot to handle :D

For example, the first choice set in chapter one of Book Three totals 3,200 words, because each choice needs a seperate reaction depending on who you're with, as well as sometimes seperate reactions within those reactions if your MC chooses a response they don't normally.

So yeah, it's a lot, but the scene thing has really just helped with that. So chapter one breaks down into 5 scenes and I've finished the first one and all its variations and am now part way through scene 2.

But another great thing is my coding is SO much cleaner already! It's something I was seriously working on in the time between Book Two and Three, and I'm so proud of the difference already :D

Hopefully that will also help things stay cleaner and more focused as I write.

Not much work on Creek Edge this week, but I will be getting back to that for sure next week. Really want to get this MC sprite done, so need to stop procrastinating by doing backgrounds and go back to that, hehe!

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For Update+ this week, I thought I'd share the setting of Book Three's opening...

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At the Borders of Wayhaven, in the Depths of the Forest

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Should make for a fun opening, hehe ;D

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and I'll talk to you next week! <3