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Progress Update Rambling

Added 2024-09-29 20:08:31 +0000 UTC

Hello there!

Good news! The Tinsae update is almost done! (It’s already 20k words long but I need to write and code a few more pivotal scenes.) I wager it will be out next week. In the meantime, I released the promised Marcus encore scenes (4k words). They’re quite dramatic so that’s great.

Anyway, why is it such good news that it’s almost done and not that it’s actually done?

Well.

As some of you know, I experienced a major burnout over a year ago. And for a long time after that, writing never really felt the same. I’ve enjoyed it but I’ve felt sluggish at times. Like I should be able to write faster but I just… couldn’t. The recovery has had its ups and downs, and when I experienced another death in the family during spring, I almost lost hope of things getting better.

But I continued writing.

And it’s been getting better. I’ve written as fast as I can without burning myself out in the process and this time it meant 100k words in a year. It’s like a full-length novel but when you’re talking about IFs, it’s really not enough (for me and for the size of this project).

During these couple of weeks, I’ve been pushing myself to my limit. And I was happy to discover where the limit is nowadays; I’ve written as many words per day as I did before I burnt out. It’s been exciting! It wasn’t quite enough for the Tinsae update to be out this weekend, but it was so close that I could've gotten bummed out about 'failing'. However, I realize that I should focus on the fact that I’ve gotten much much better than I was before and that I can realistically start getting these updates out (almost) monthly.

It’s been my goal for a while now. And I almost reached it. ‘Almost’ is important, too.

Anyway, thank you for being here. And for listening to my rambling.

Thank you.

(Oh, and Tinsae’s and Camilla’s threesome won the next month’s smut poll. Naturally.)