And now for something completely different (Plus an StN progress check) · 8:55pm Aug 1st, 2024
An indie-dev friend of mine just released her game on Steam. If retro platformers interest you at all, I'd appreciate it if people would give it a look.
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An indie-dev friend of mine just released her game on Steam. If retro platformers interest you at all, I'd appreciate it if people would give it a look.
My track record with Christmas releases is no longer perfect, but I do try! Only one 5k chapter of Sharing the Nation this year, though I'm hoping to have 5k more out before the new year. To make up for it, though, I've also brought out the Harry Potter crossover that's been languishing in Patreon limbo while I decide what to do with it. I
Man, this has been… a year. Shortly after my last blog post, I had some (non-covid) medical issues that somewhat took over my life for a while, and while that's all in the past now, I'm only back where I was beforehand—completely unproductive. I was determined to get back into things at NaNoWriMo, but work steamrolled those plans and I just haven't been able to find the words to write something for the usual Christmas chapter. Honestly, I couldn't even read through Sharing the Nation in
Jeeze, it's been four months since I decided not to force myself to generate updates for the sake of Patreon and gave myself the freedom to write whatever I wanted… but I haven't really written anything. I've done a thousand words or so here and there to play around with other fandoms, but nothing of significance.
Shocking, I know.
It wouldn't be Christmas if I hadn't been completely incommunicado for at least a month or two beforehand, right?
Unfortunately, I don't have chapters of Sharing the Nation to post for Christmas this year. I do have some Equal Opportunity Ascension chapters that only Patreon has seen, and I'll post those, I guess, but it's clear this… isn't working.
"This" mostly being Patreon, or at least my approach to it.
Merry Christmas!
As I've done every year since I started writing†, I have updates here for you on Christmas day.
(† It might look like there's a missing one, but the chapter for Sharing the Night that year was taken down and reposted)
The first 10k words of Sharing the Nation have been written†. For those not paying attention, this is the sequel to Sharing the Night. This is a cause for celebration!
† Technically, 500 words of that are a small extra scene for Sharing the Night so I can ping people with the update when the sequel goes live, but I should be able to add at least 500 more words today anyway.
As the title says, this post doesn’t contain any whining, cringe-worthy self-deprecation (except this line, I suppose) or apologies. Weird, right? But hey, it’s Christmas and my patreon just received an incredible 50% boost from a single user (just for the month), so I figured, hell, my friend is doing this thing that I have no part in and is a completely different genre than my stories, so why not share the love a little?
tl;dr: Chapter 19 of Sharing the Night will be posted tomorrow and I am bad at life
I'm not dead! Things are… far from ideal right now, but I'm not dead.