update 78.

august 28th-september 3rd.

erm, hi. i definitely meant to write this up yesterday but, uh, i once again underestimated how draining it is to move and unpack and clean bathrooms that you shouldn't have to clean but do, and— you get the point. i'll be stuck doing this for the rest of the week (so many boxes in my room, yay!) so i don't expect to have a big word count for the next update. this one, however... i mean, not to hype myself up, but it might be the biggest word count i've had in a while. tame compared to the five to seven thousand i used to do but hush, it's something.

basically, i just sat myself down and stared Rylan's character in the eyes and told them to stop giving me such a hard time. and while i doubt that's what made it work, something must have happened because the scene i was struggling so much with suddenly made sense (it was the giant notepad page of notes, definitely that). while i do warn that it's less fluffy than the other routes, i'd argue that it's the one with the most development. not to say that the others aren't (Blane's and K's are huge improvements, i think) but this one is... different, in a way. it's hard to explain. moral of the story, Rylan is no longer the bane of my existence. [A], on the other hand, who is the only scene i have left, might take the title next.

to give myself a break, i might skip their scene for now and move on to the second half of the chapter. things are already totaling out to be twenty-eight thousand (and with the addition of [A]'s branch, it'll probably be past thirty thousand just for the opening scene) so depending on where this scene takes me, we'll likely be hitting fifty-thousand. i say that because while i'm the writer, these scenes tend to have a life of their own and take control rather than the other way around. chapter seven, for example, was never supposed to have a stab scene. chapter nine? the fight scene with Altan was much more intense than i thought it'd be (i wrote that entire thing zoned out, if you can't tell). so yeah. good results? sure. but it's often very unexpected so i never quite know what to say.

i'll keep you all updated on where things head, of course. i might be a little quieter on tumblr this month because of school, but i promise to maintain things on this front. a new sneak peek will be up later this week <3

stats.

448,542 words (+3963)

sneak peek.

With [Rylan] sounding so enthusiastic, it's easy to pretend we're not who we are.