Dev Blog 4/17/22 (Patreon)

Hello!

Wow is the editing process not as fun. LOL! Believe me, if I could pay someone to take my brain and rewrite the scenes I want rewritten, while also going through and fixing dialogue, adding options, and cleaning up paragraphs? I would.  Hands down this is my least favorite part of the creation process.  I remember saying that not reading my stuff and going back through it later would be future me's problem.

I am future me.

I am suffering the consequences.

Will I learn from these consequences? No.

On a serious note, I am hella behind on a lot of stuff right now so I really am appreciative that everyone has been patient.  I have kickstarter e-mails to respond to, books to get editing, and content for Patreon I need to post.  On top of this, it's been a busy time in my household. Spring always seems to bring in this firm desire in me to do more for my kiddos with the weather getting better so I do not feel like we have stopped moving.  I'm hoping to feel back on track soon but I honestly think I am going to feel behind until this editing process is done.

There is a lot that is changing in Chapter One. The concept of it all is still the same, but the delivery is a bit different.  I've cleaned up some routes too because there was a lot of repetition that didn't need to be there.  Gabriel's dialogue has a complete overhaul.  Milo has had to have some tweaks. Hazel's is a complete overhaul as well.  I am hopeful that by the time I get to about chapter three it won't be as much work because I had more of an idea of what I wanted to do at that point but we will see.

As for book 2 itself. I have so many ideas. All of which are ones that I am letting stew. But I might need to give a little PSA given the baseline of what I am seeing post game reaction.  The way that things are going to go in Book 2, might not be the way everyone is logically thinking it will go?  Which, I think at this point we should maybe just accept I am probably that kind of writer. I don't like going down the routes that are explored constantly. And that isn't to say those aren't good routes to explore but I am an avid reader and I would get bored with writing those types of routes. And in the end, the only reason I was getting content out the way I have done in the last year, is because I was excited for what I was writing. So, we'll see how that will end up going.

Heading out to continue chapter one edits and bang my head against the wall.

Zinnia