#friday progress

I'm back, britches! (And if you're not wearing pants, the same shoutout applies.)

I took some time away from Tumblr in order to give myself a little mental health TLC, and have come back to a bunch of sweet messages that actually made me tear up a little. Thanks, guys, you're the best.❤️

I've still been chugging away at Mind Blind, and have actually just started the first rewrite. More like a recoding, to be more accurate. The Patreon build only had one or two chapters left until the end, when I realized that I couldn't actually write the endings the way I wanted to write them, because none of the necessary variables had been tracked in the story thus far.

Basically, I didn't have a clue what I was doing when I first started writing Mind Blind. Now that I actually kinda-sorta know how to code, I'm reworking all relationship systems and better tracking Button's attitudes on issues. Plus, I'm using it as my first rewrite to edit the text and check for typos, so the recoding (or The Great Rewritening, as I've taken to calling it) isn't really delaying the story's publication so much as just having some of the necessary steps happen a little out of order.

i make one of these every friday to see what i've been up to - i'll be back with the last one on december 31st ;)

I am alive and will get Noh’s reveal fully coded by tomorrow if it’s the last thing I do. 

Am now disconnecting my internet so I stop falling down rabbit holes of neo gothic architecture for the heist scene--Button have enough ways of breaking the law and I don’t need to add any more.

EDIT: New timeline. Prohibition-era tunnels are cool and needed to be included.

Yes, I’m pretending that today is still Friday. Who fell asleep at her desk last night? Definitely not me.

(It was actually super comfy.)

The good news: My editing is now all the way to Chapter 5, which means I’m about a third of the way through the released Patreon chapters.

The mildly interesting news: Hope’s relationship with Button is now determined and remembered in the game’s code via a set of EIGHTEEN variables. John was an underachiever with only twelve.

Current Word Count: 440k

Next Patreon Update: Sometime early November? I’ll be updating Chapter 14 over the next few days (last minute inspiration = last minute power writing)

It’s a little scary how close Mind Blind is to its end! I don’t fully know if I’ll be able to wrap everything up completely by December (there’s a lot of ground to cover, and more variables than ever due to the different endings, not to mention last minute changes which are slowing me down). But it should be possible? Either way, it’s pretty heady to finally have a solid grasp on what reveals will happen every chapter, and I’m starting more and more to contemplate what needs to be addressed in the rewrite before public testing and ultimately publication.

It all feels very real.

Romance Scene Spoilers (which will be added to game sometime this week):

I keep forgetting to post, lost in the hectic plot-rearranging throes of writing Mind Blind’s final chapters. The ending is in sight! I can see it! Taste it! Smell it! (And it smells like my Peach Pie aromatic candle, which I use exclusively when editing.)

Current Coded Wordcount: 480k

Average Playthrough: 112k words

Latest Patreon Chapter: 17, but that’s getting rewritten to push back a certain, ahem, reveal a little further down the line. (I’m not quite satisfied with the currently posted version).

Snippet Without Context:

Word Count: 426k

Next Patreon Update: October 16 (aka tomorrow evening)

Nohthing To See Here (Except Spoilers):

Current Wordcount: Still around 370k

I’m still working to get Glitch and Kenzie’s missing scenes up for Chapter 12 (they were supposed to be yesterday and then tonight, but I ended up writing a new mini-heist scene instead for Chapter 13). Speaking of Chapter 13, the first half will be added the Alpha Patreon Build on . . .

Next Patreon Update: August 28

There’s illegal activity and skulking and robots and it’s all very exciting.

Chapter 12 Scene Without Context (spoilerific):