The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update+ 05/August/2022 (Patreon)

Oh, it was SO good to catch up on a ton of stuff this week!

Writing is obviously my favourite, but it does feel like a weight lifted to have so many tasks checked off that had been building up.

Hosted Games got my email about the save system, so I'm really hoping that'll be added in soon! They started processing the graphics ready for the Steam wishlist, but I totally forgot they would need the text assets (blurb, different tag lines, etc) as well! So I'll work on that next week to send over to them. 

Managed to get a bunch of 'tidying' done, things like all the millions of scribbled notes everywhere that are now properly documented so I don't lose them. Especially as I decided to change one of side characters major branches completely (because why not this late into the story, right? Hehe! :D), and I wrote down how I want that to go instead...but then panicked when I couldn't find it! But that's typed up and filed away ready to start in a later chapter for this book...

Editing is also going well. I wanted to make sure I remembered to add in the edits people have noted with bugs and things from the demo that I've been collecting up as they've come in, as well as beginning on Chapter 9 edits.

Then it was also social media days this week! Patreon content was major fun this month! I'm starting a new series of Unseen Scenes, where it's the love interest's point of view during the moment in Chapter 6, Book Three where the MC manages to shove the Anunnaki away after Sin has just blasted the LI back!

And there's also the scene for Rebecca and Rook's wedding going up, which one of my patron's requested as their scenario and super kindly let me share it with patrons because I loved how it came out so much!

Tumblr asks were quite lore heavy this month, which was really fun to dive into! Though I totally forgot to schedule them for this week after finishing them *face palm* So Nai is going through and scheduling those ready to start up as usual next week and putting the ones I forgot about into those as well so as they're not missed.

(Also loved all the messages I got about the new Persuasion adaptation, hehe! ;D)

I have to say though I had so many AMAZING messages from people saying how much Wayhaven offers them and how much it means to them. So thank you SO incredibly much to all of you who have taken the time to write those. I can't tell you how much it means to me, not just a creator but personally, to know Wayhaven can be as special to you as it is to me! It's difficult to really express just how much as words through a screen just seem like words, but I truly, truly mean it<3 <3 <3

Wow, this is already a super long update! 

Next week I will be starting on Chapter 17!! The start of the endings! This checkpoint also means some other things have to start beginning too: getting edited chapters to sensitivity readers to start on, ramping up my own editing on chapters for SpunkyCat so she doesn't have an influx at the end, and actually starting to think about marketing and things for when the game is coming up to release! Obviously it's still a while away yet, but I am so on schedule for when it's to be out, so I don't want other things to fall behind and hold it up!

So exciting to reach this point!!

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For Update+ this week, a little snippet from my edits in Chapter 9 of the MC having interesting thoughts with the Love Triangle route...

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Nate/Nat occupies so much of my thoughts…and my heart, so why does Adam/Ava keep wriggling his/her way in there too?

The obvious answer hangs silently in the air, but I ignore it, closing my eyes to try and empty my head completely instead.

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Obviously it's best not to think too much on those things. They'll all work out eventually, right?... :D

Hope you all have the most amazing weekend! We'll be offline as usual, so I'll talk to you all soon! <3