Another good week of pushing forwards! I was hoping to be done with this section of this chapter already, but it got more complicated than I was expecting. Plus, I made an absolute mess with the coding, (which I’ve actually been really good about not doing in this book so far!), and that isn’t helping. But I think it would take more time to untangle at this point, so I’m just pressing on with it as it is, lol! :D Yet even with that, I’m certain I can get the writing done for

Ok, I am starting to get seriously super excited! :D Like, I was already excited, but getting to this point has really set off a whole other level in me, hehe! Though, in true me fashion, I have ended up adding in a massive chunk that will come up later. But it really did need it. I had a set of super important choices, but two of the three led into the same eventual branch of a later scene which really just didn’t work. They really needed whole separate branches for this eve

It’s always weird having a short week. It throws me all off, lol! But even with the bank holiday on Monday, I got a ton done this week! I think the rest really gave me a boost :D I’m hammering through the edits in this chapter. There was a couple of bits that I felt didn’t line up after choices, so I went through and rewrote some of those. It reads a lot better now, but I’ll check in with the readers to ensure it’s as smooth as I’m hoping. I’m hoping to get the edits done for

Oh, what a week again! The writing on the chapter is finished! I got the edits back from the editor for the other chapter, so I can get on that while editing this current chapter. The testers are also prepped and on board ready to get started on testing after Easter break. It really was all a go this week, hehe! Which I wasn’t sure it was going to be as I started out the week by dislocating my knee, lol. I wasn’t even sure how I was going to keep it raised and work at my desk

I’m still a bit back and forth on the flow of this chapter. I love the scenes in it, but I just really worry about it feeling choppy! And yet, when I read back over what I’ve written so far, it does read fine and flow into each scene with a purpose. So, I think I’m worrying it feels choppy when it’s not, lol! It was a bit of a stressful week anyway, which wasn’t helping my brain. One of my cats had emergency surgery early this week. I’ve been up with him a couple of nights to

You know, for all the times I say writing Bobby makes me shudder…I always enjoy writing scenes with them, lol! :D There’s something about the way they interact in a scene, with motivations the reader really can’t read, that makes them so fun! Though now with two different versions of Bobby to contend with, that also adds to the mix, hehe! I also got to hint at something in a different story branch when I did that version of this scene earlier this week. And soon it’ll be Doug

It felt so good to really get stuck into this chapter. I loved—and I mean seriously  loved —the ballroom chapters, but this chapter is kind of like a mish-mash of character scenes, and I always love writing those! :D Obviously which character you get and what scene you end up with all depends on choices, but that’s the fun of interactive fiction! I love that it can respond so much to the story your character is going through (even if that does mean I tend to go a bit OTT with

Interesting week this week… It started off by my laptop having a bit of a freak out and deciding to delete all of my morning’s work. I really need to get better at backups! So, I rewrote what I had before (which I actually liked more, so I guess it was a blessing in disguise? Lol!) and was getting on a real roll until Thursday. Thursday morning, I wake up, and I can’t move my arms and hands. I literally had no idea what I was going to do, and it was—as you can imagine—pretty

The writing for this chapter is finished and editing has begun! I’ll also be adding in the editor’s edits for the last chapter, as well as reader’s edits for any errors they’ve found. Every chapter ticked off is really giving me that feel of how much closer I’m getting to the end! I know there’s still a ways to go—actually there’s barely any chapters left, it’s just that they’re all massive to write, pretty much every chapter left also has different versions of it—but it’s re

Thank you all so much for the wonderful messages and comments after last week’s update! I am feeling a ton better now, and it really shows in my writing too! There were a couple of dialogue lines this week where I was like, ‘Oh, that was soooo  good’, hehe! :D And amazingly, even with being ill and taking some time for the asks, I’ve seriously powered through this chapter! I planned on starting the second variation next week, but I’m already most of the way through it! I’ll d

Hey all, Nai here. Mishka has been feeling really under the weather today 😔 She's currently sat with a hot water bottle on her ear, desk littered with paracetamol packets and half empty tea mugs! So there's not going to be too much of an update today. But as you know, she doesn't know when to take a break (sigh), so she’s concentrating her energy on finishing up the first version of the current chapter, which she reckons she'll get finished by tomorrow or early next week, an

I’ve been working on the big opening scene to this chapter that leads into the split, where you get one of two versions of the chapter depending on what you choose—and it’s a vastly different choice. Obviously, I knew the two different variations are gonna be a lot of work, especially as they have some major skill check moments in them both, so they’re what had been on my mind. What I didn’t think I’d struggle with is the opening! But I’ve rewritten, deleted, changed, and ada

Well, this week was certainly a lot calmer than last week! End of last week we were hit majorly by storm Goretti. We ended up without power for 3 days. But we were all safe which was the most important! It did mean we couldn’t get on our laptops or charge phones, etc, which put me behind schedule—not exactly the start I wanted. But this week was a new week, and it felt oddly charged with a lot of energy! :D We were seriously on it, and I’ve really stormed ahead! My focus has

And that’s a wrap for 2025! I was a little bit panicked at the beginning of the week that I wasn’t going to get everything done, but every task on my checklist is satisfyingly ticked off, hehe! :D I’m at such a perfect place to come back to in January, that it’s really helped settle my mind—which means I can really give my brain a break too, lol! We’ll be off for Christmas break now from 20th December until January 6th. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to come. Over on P

It was soooo nice to get this chapter finished. It was almost cathartic in a way, hehe! After all these many, many  years of dreaming and imagining these ball scenes I’ve finally been able to bring them to life! :D Though there was one morning when my laptop was being lazy, and I thought it was crashing, and I realised I hadn’t saved the entire scene I’d been working on! Bit of a heart attack to start that day, but it was fine. I backed it up asap after that, lol! I’ll be con

I’m on the penultimate scene of this chapter! Not quite finished with the whole chapter like I really wanted, but I definitely will have it done by the start of next week. Obviously, I left the biggest scenes until last instead of doing the smart thing and starting with them, lol! Poor Nai has had to suffer listening to the ball playlist on repeat day after day after day lately, so I expect she’ll be happy to have this chapter over with too, hehe! :D They were perfect songs f

The right decision was made! Adding in the love interest comments to the different outfits was definitely a good call :D It’s been a lot of work, but it really was worth it! Wayhaven is about those extra details and moments, and it really does shine in scenes like this! Also, I absolutely loved seeing the difference between how the different vampires reacted to the outfits, hehe! Now that I’ve added in the comments to the scenes I've already done, I can get back to writing th

Oh, it was one of the best weeks this week! All these moments I’ve had building in my head for years are now coming out onto the page and really coming to life, hehe! :D I got two of the scenes finished already and was about to move onto the next when…I thought of something else I could add… Part of me is like, ‘Don’t do it. It’ll be soooo  much work for such a tiny one bit of dialogue. Yet the other—admittedly louder lol—part of me is like… So, I’m really torn. It would be a

I’m not sure why I always convince myself I hate editing so much, because every time I edit I’m always going through the chapter like, ‘Oh my word, I totally forgot this bit!’ Or ‘Aaahh! I forgot this is how it goes with love interest after that moment’, lol! :D It’s mostly because editing stops me from writing, and I’m a person who just likes to keep pushing forward on projects! But editing is one of the most important tasks, and apparently actually becoming a favourite one

Who absolutely smashed their goals this week? When I say I was on a roll, I mean I was like one those cheese wheels that goes flying down the hill at those cheese-chasing festivals! :D I always set myself a goal when I start work ‘cause I do really well with goals and checklists, lol. But this week, each day, I was completing that goal and moving onto the next!! Yesterday, I knew there was a super complicated scene of coding coming up where the narrative variations were just