update 64. (Patreon)

WHAT I DID.

mondays are universally hated. they're the first day of the week (though i'd argue that sunday takes that role), a day when most people have to go back to work. as someone who is on summer break and won't be working until june, mondays mean weekly updates. inevitably, i end up repeating what i said last week in most of my overviews, but it can't be helped. being a slow writer (which is clearly what i've become) means writing the same scene for sometimes weeks on end. 

which brings me to this: i missed a spot. remember when i said i finished with A's and N's branch? yeah, apparently not. i was scrolling through my doc the other day and lo and behold, there was a huge chunk of text missing for various choices i planned out but never wrote. i have this problem where i'll lay out five or six choices and only write one before continuing with the rest of the story. i like to argue that it keeps me from forgetting where i was going with the choice and what text i want to put after. in reality, writing choices is really draining for me. it's different dialogue and inner thoughts but all leading or referencing the same thing. in other words, they're merely variations of each other.

in my defence, i truly did think A's and N's branch was done. really, it's not a big deal, but it's a little frustrating to think i was closing in on the final scene when in reality, bam, i had more to write from when i was being lazy earlier. luckily, i had a decent amount of motivation this week to get most of it done, so what's left is just three (four?) more blanks for me to fill in and then i can get back to the end of the chapter. the end.

i'm truly on the very last scene of the chapter. i've been at this stage for a while now, but within this scene, there have been dozens of uh, other, scenes, for lack of a better word. segments. sections. i don't know. what matters is, i have two 'segments' left and then i'll be done with this chapter. it's been haunting me since november but we're nearly there. with that, i can happily say that chapter nine will release sometime in june, though i do not have an estimate as to when yet. as always, the twilight and midnight tiers will get early access and i'll announce in the weekly update a more concrete date when i have it. thanks for sticking by me <3

STATS.

406,319 words (+4051)

SNEAK PEEK.

[[A] will] mention their parents sometimes, tell me how good their mom's soup is and how she's been asking to have me over at the next holiday dinner.