The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update+ 12/March/2021 (Patreon)

Super busy but amazing week this week!

So I finally caught up on Chapter 5 edits instead of just indulging in writing, hehe :D

Spunkycat's comments during the edits kept me so pumped, and now I'm even more excited for you guys to try out Chapter 5 in the demo!! There's a lot of variation that I hope people will love and enjoy exploring through different replays!

I will send her Chapter 6 next week (want to make sure she has a nice break over the weekend after the intensity of chap 5!), and then we'll really be bumping along towards the demo release.

But even with the edits, and playing through to check they all work, I continued writing Chapter 7! I'm loving it :D Even if I did put in separate variations and choices where I wasn't supposed to, lol. It seriously suits the scene though (this is what I mean when I say about letting the writing happen organically, even when I have a plan), it actually also lends itself to the next branch for Book Three so much better than I actually had planned! It just means the simple opening scene turned a bit more complicated...so worth it though!

I don't know how to explain it but I feel in such a major zone with Wayhaven at the moment! It's why I just wanna write, write, write! It seems to be flowing so smoothly and things are coming to me as I write that I know I have to put in but that I wouldn't have thought of before!

It's also been fun to start bringing in and explaining a bit about the lore that's gonna feature for Book Three. Been waiting a loooong time to write Birdman, so it's really nice to get to go into more detail on him.

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For Update+ this week, I thought I'd share two snippets, as I couldn't decide which one I liked best (plus they're both from the 'fail' version of the opening scene, so I'm not sure if many people will actually see them in game, hehe :D)!

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Sneak peek #1:

#Sigh. "Wonderful. So now I'm facing the condescending birdman alone?"

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Sneak peek #2:

I groan and lean my head back from the sheer strength of my eye roll. "If I have to convince one more person that I'm fine, then I'm leaving."

*if (romance = "mason")

"Good," ${mason} spouts, drawing a frown from me. "Maybe if you leave, you'll finally go see the medics like you should have when we first got here."

I throw ${m_him} a withered stare.

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Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and I'll talk to you all soon! <3