Writer's Blog: Full Speed Ahead in a Mail Truck to 2022 (Patreon)

It’s almost 2022!

An hour before midnight, to be exact, at least according to my time. I'll make this short and sweet, because I do have a major milestone that I want to celebrate:

MIND BLIND IS OVER 500,000 words!

This is the CODED count, with the draft version being much longer. The new and improved Chapter 17 has officially set the word count over the half-million mark as of four hours ago. Feeling pretty good over that milestone!

I intended to work on the heist scene this last week, but unfortunately the newest versions of Chapters 14-16 are saved to my home computer and not my laptop which is currently being held together with duct tape and prayer. Chapter 17, however, needed to be rewritten completely so it was easy to work on. I’m loving this new version so very much. It prolongs the suspense, helps better frame the reveal, and is just overall better. I’m aiming to release this new and improved version on January 9th, after I get back to Chicago and have a functioning keyboard with a space bar that doesn’t need to be slammed five times in a row to work.

Have I mentioned that we’re snowed in here in Washington? Combined with needing to go down the road to the neighbor’s for working internet, I feel like Laura Ingalls. (I have a belated Sally saucy side that should go up tomorrow inspired by this.)

As for my New Year’s resolutions . . .

1) Finish Mind Blind. First draft by Spring, final draft in Summer. Submit it to Hosted Games. Weep tears of joy.

2) Learn Twine for Delivery for the Damned, as this will be a game that requires save files due to the myriad ways Golightly can, er, "fail deliveries."

3) Start writing Delivery for the Damned! I want to release the first chapter out during late spring/early summer in between finishing Mind Blind drafts. The second chapter won’t get written until Mind Blind is submitted, but I want to at least share Proof of Concept.

4) Adopt a dog. (Alternatively: Steal Ziva from my mother.)

Thank you all so much for supporting me this year! While I regret not being able to finish Mind Blind in December as I'd hoped, that final chapter is coming soon. 2022 will be a year of endings and beginnings; as sad as I’ll be to say goodbye to everyone in Operation Hemera, I greatly look forward to introducing you all to the topsy-turvy world of colliding realities and timely postal service.