evertidings

update 40.

Added 2022-11-06 22:00:43 +0000 UTC

right off the bat, i'll tell you that i have not started chapter nine (unless you count one sentence as a start. a sentence that has a ninety-nine percent being cut, that is). i know i usually give estimates on when the next chapter will be out but chapter nine is, unfortunately, my least planned chapter out of the entire book. should i be admitting this? probably not, but here i am. not that i don't know what i'm doing—i have a vague idea for what needs to happen in this chapter, just not the specifics of how and when those happen. if i had an outline i could predict how long it might take me to write each section, but since i don't, i'm not going to risk putting a date on things yet.

that brings me to this 'update'. since i don't have chapter nine content to share, i'm going to go through a little walkthrough of my plans for the rest of the year.

november is Blane's and Rylan's birthdays. Blane's birthday post went up this morning and Rylan's will be on the 19th. depending on how much i've written for chapter nine, Rylan's post will either be a mini drabble or a sneak peek of them in the upcoming update. i also expect to hit a follower milestone this month so i'll be doing a giveaway for that on tumblr. i'm currently leaning towards personalized drabbles as the prizes, though that's subject to change.

for december, i plan on writing an interactive short story for the holidays, to be posted on the 'midnight hours: shorts' game on itch.io. it won't be very long and will have far less choices than the main game, but i hope to publish something as a little treat.

of course, the entire time i work on these, i will be chipping away at chapter nine. while the main game will always be my first priority, the bonus content works both as a treat for you and a switch of gears for me (which is something i learned i need after the pain that was chapter eight).