What a difference a break can make! I came back on Monday realising that I hadn’t written the other ‘rare’ ending. So, I hunkered down to make a start on that before moving to the actual last ending. And oh my word! It was variation heavy to the max in a major way, needing variations pretty much every other line to account for if you were with your LI or a BFF. I finished it in a day and a half!! It was just flowing! And I was going with it. It’s ended up being one of my abso

Endings really do make me question my plans at times, lol!

It was definitely one of those weeks where it felt like time just runs away!

Monday really set the vibe of this week! I stormed through the writing on Monday, which always feels amazingly good to get that kind of start! But it continued on the rest of the days too! Even with having to work out a complicated coding situation—I have a new variable specifically for this chapter, but it can interrupt an important variable that was tracking something throughout the book. I needed to figure out how those two were going to interact with each other and all wo

This week certainly got my brain going! :D I knew this chapter was obviously gonna be quite a web of variations and choices, as it’s bringing together so many things that happened during the story, as well as branching depending on other choices. But one of the scenes (well, two, as it differs depending on a choice) involves Rebecca, so I definitely don’t want to be making any assumptions on the character’s feelings during this one! I mean, I can use the variables that track

It was a much more stable week this week! It felt good to really get things checked off! At the start of the week, I worked on asks and social media, which was a really nice reset for my brain :D Then it was diving back into the writing. It’s been a couple of hefty-to-write scenes this week, as they involve the MC and all of Unit Bravo, plus lots of choice sets (things are getting emotional in unexpected ways for the MC—Li-Sar is enjoying twisting the knife) which means they

The week started with getting some edits up together and sending off the previous chapter to the editor. I was super eager to get that over, as I absolutely love that chapter and the scenes in it, so can’t wait to hear what she thinks, hehe! :D But then things went a little down. Wednesday, I felt off, and then Thursday I was super ill. Literally hit out of nowhere and no idea what it was, ‘cause today I feel super fine! So that was random! It also threw me off schedule, whic

Was a back-and-forth week this week between things. I sent the next chapter over to the editor for edits after adding in the ones for the previous chapter. Except she couldn’t get far because it was kicking up an annoying error I was sure I’d fixed already. So, I fixed it again and sent it back. …Only for it to happen again! Fixed it and sent it back, and it finally worked this time, lol! Really not sure what was happening with that! Then I got a really weird glitch in Notepa

Super busy this week, and it’ll be a busy weekend too! Now we’re getting so close to the end, it always gets hectic! I did edits this week for the previous chapter. But one of the love interest scenes wasn’t quite right. It just didn’t have the romantic vibe I wanted and was a bit too…intensely serious, lol! :D I really loved the scene though, so I cut it and saved it for use somewhere else, or at least use the choice set or bits of it in other later scenes. Then that meant I

It got a little hot this week in the UK…and also in Wayhaven! :D The random heatwave we had certainly helped write a particular scene, that’s for sure! I was going to leave that scene in this chapter until last but the weather, and my headspace, was so in the moment for it that I started to tackle it! It’s a real doozy as it has differing BFF scenes at the start and then some super important choices later. But I was really in it, and it felt good to have such a complicated sc

I completed a lot of mop-up tasks last week which meant I could zone in on the writing this week. It felt good to really just get a long run at it! Usually, I always follow the order in which the scenes pop up in the plan, but for the first time in a while, I skipped writing the first scene I had planned and moved onto the others. I really didn’t want to get stuck, and I knew I would be with that scene with that particular LI, as it requires a certain headspace for writing it

It was an odd week this week, lol! I’m not sure if it was the bank holiday on Monday that set everything off, but it really was all over the place. Still, despite not being able to get my head around the days, I managed to get the editing done and began looking over the plan for the next chapter, which I’ll be starting today! This chapter, like I said last week, is the last one before the endings! And this is the chapter I’ve had the most back and forth on this whole process,

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

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

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

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

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

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