The Wayhaven Chronicles - Update+ 07/October/2023 (Patreon)

It was weird getting back to coding this week, hehe! I’ve been only doing the writing for the planning for so long that getting back to the shift of how to code was a bit of an eye-opener once again!

But it didn’t take long to get back in the flow.

Though first up this week were social media days, and I had some serious fun with that!

It was the Autumnal/Halloween scenarios to write up for the Patreon specials this month, and you guys decided on some good choices in the poll for the AU romance scenes, hehe! So the dates of those will be:

Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice (Haley Autumnal Scenario Special) 4th October

Can the sweetness of a new relationship beat the yumminess of the bakery’s tasty goods?...Both Haley and the MC seem to think so!

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Jump Scare (Maaka Halloween Scenario Special) 11th October

For a first date, though maybe technically third, nothing seems better than dinner and a movie. Unless of course it’s a scary movie, and your werewolf boyfriend gets freaked out about anything that goes bumps!

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Bittersweet (Sin Autumnal Scenario Special) 25th October

The change in seasons brings more than just a chill to the air—it also brings the return of someone who the MC hadn’t realized they’d been missing quite so much. And it seems Sin feels the same way…

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Are you scared? (Alima Halloween Scenario Special) 31st October

Building a new friendship is hard enough, it’s even more difficult when traversing a haunted house together and realizing the tingle that’s running down both your spines is likely from more than shock of the plastic skeleton leaping out of the walls.

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It was SO much fun writing these romances as they were all really different! Alima especially was a difficult one to write for but turned out even better than I’d hoped.

But after that, I finally opened up a brand new Notepad++ document and got to save it as ‘TWC Book Four’!!! I had a little bit of an excited and panicky screech at that point, hehe! :D

I’ve been working on all the stuff that needs to go into the background first: coding the character creation for people who jump in with new characters, writing a brief summary of Book Three, etc. I also need to add in a section now for those who want to jump through all the choices in order to create a new character, so I need to make sure I get in all the important ones from Book Three so that it works.

It’s taking a loooong time. And normally I would get all this stuff done before even considering writing anything towards the book, but it was a pretty heavy week of coding so I think next week I might actually jump into the writing and then chop back again when I finish a scene!

Got to find the balance between the fun and the necessary, right? :D

I’m already buzzing at the idea of writing the opening! I’ve actually got it rough written out already, so turning it into the ACTUAL opening is going to be such a major moment! The start of the next chapter within The Wayhaven Chronicles and where the romances are gonna lead!

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And we’re finally getting back to the weekly Update+, yay!! This week, I have an example of some of the coding I’ve been working on to tidy things up:

*if (n_man = "man")

*if (mc_height = "very tall")

*set nh "nlevel"

*goto nextcleanup3

*else

*set nh "ntaller"

*goto nextcleanup3

*else

*if (mc_height = "very tall")

*set nh "nmctaller"

*goto nextcleanup3

*elseif (mc_height = "tall")

*set nh "nlevel"

I’m sure there is a cleaner way to do this, lol! But this means I don’t have to do separate flags when it comes to variations for when N’s height comes into play, whether N is female of male.

I’m hoping even small cleanups like this will save me a huge amount of time during the writing process, as well as help with editing!

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Hope you all have an amazing weekend! We’ll be offline as usual, so I’ll talk to you all on Monday <3 

Thank you so much for your incredible support and sticking with me during these months of planning! You have no idea how much it means!

I hope you enjoy the coming little weekly sneak peeks and updates as I dive into Book Four! ;D

(Also, for any one who has signed up to Patreon or upped their pledge level, please do check your junk mail folders in case the email has got lost! Still waiting on quite a few replies, and I want make sure you receive your rewards! <3)