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Currently my text doc of Tuesday's Child contains not a novel but a script. It leaned heavily upon the intended visuals for description, for atmosphere, and for dramatic irony: very often Sinclair would observe something that was very clearly different from what was happening on-screen. Without accompanying illustrations these bits will need to be expanded and clarified.

The VN outline had three paths, each with several possible endings. In terms of plot, though, there’s really only one main ending for each path - the others branched for entertainment purposes, to exhaust certain possibilities, but they are not (so to speak) entirely canon. They can be be dropped from the book version without loss, leaving each path with its one true and inevitable ending.

Apart from these adaptations, I don’t think anything significant will change about the story or scenes.

For the cover and fonts, as for any of the interior developments, I'm returning to things that caught my eye when I first began the research phase: the Surrealist works of Bataille and Minotaure magazine; Jungian spiritualism; 1940s noir films; toying with structure and metatextual shape; and the usual Amanitus indulgence in faerytales, philosophy, and the erotic.

I’m also inspired at the moment by Borges’ extraordinary short works, such as his concept of the Garden of Forking Paths - very much the precursor of multi-stranded storytelling. And of course I’m never not inspired by Nabokov. (If you haven’t read his short story “Symbols and Signs” please do. Not relevant, it’s just cool.)

And lastly. You may ask How will the book version of Tuesday’s Child physically organise three separate story paths? Good question! You’ll soon see 🖋️

Thanks so much for your patience and support - I'm really looking forward to opening the Tuesdayworld that's been teased for so long.