DREAMS OF A LOST MOONCHILD

Just a super quick update for those who wonder (who the fuck am I kidding, right?) Anyway.

So because someone who I admire in many ways, left me a comment saying they were reading my book. I felt like I had to go give it a quick read again, because some part of me felt the pressure. And suddenly I wasn’t sure if my story was shit, even if I know I checked it over, and over and over again.

And when I read it, I suddenly had the strangest urge to write out a short sequel to Heart Shaped Tattoos, I AM planning on it just being a short thing, but knowing me; it could go either way.

With the worktitle of Tat2, it’s about Adam Warden Junior’s children. Only thing I find kinda weird about this is for the timeline to make sense, the story has to happen in 2038 – But I decided to just run with it, and write it as contemporary, I mean, I can’t predict 2038 so there’s that, but I hardly think there’s flying cars – you know what I mean.

The weird frontpage is just so it’s easier for me to find on my google drive. But yeah let’s see where this goes, but the plan is to include it as a extra thing in a new edition of HST.

And besides that, I also worked a little more on my Twine project, finally tackled trying to insert the edited text. This project doesn’t really have a name, but it’s a rewritten version of an old fanfic called Battle Brothers. I kept the bromance, but I changed the names, and the fandom actually, switching it to a Dead Space thing – yeah well I worked it over just before I wrote Silentia Aeterna.

So right now I am slowly mapping stuff, and messing around with the settings, and figuring out how Twine works, backgrounds, and music and stuff. When I’m done, I plan on releasing it on itch.io for free. I just wanted to test if I could in fact figure out how to make a game.

Twine is a program for text games, but in the new online version you can actually add changing backgrounds, and sound easier than before. And the coding is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it. But should you be interested in making a twine project yourself, I can only say they have a great community, and it’s pretty easy to get answers to your questions.

I had to take a break from editing the next novella, that is why. At some point you just have to take a step back, and do something else before you edit your story to death.

Besides that I cancelled my subscription to novel.ai, I mean it was a great tool to unstick yourself, and it was a great automated lore tool too. I cancelled my sub for two reasons.

1. because it kept getting more and more expensive, but the new features were always related to their damn furry/anime art option, never to the writing part of the program. So i had to pay more and more for a product that didn’t change or improve.
2. because I got fucking upset with the community, and the whole ‘i don’t write shit, this program does it for me, it’s awesome’ – these assholes are exactly why people think that everyone who use any ai aid tool, just sits back and use ai. fuckers!