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Newsflash: April #1
🕑 Added 2025-04-04 15:00:14 +0000 UTCThis fortnight has been a lot more pleasant than the previous one: my shoulder recovered after a few days, and I was able to take a couple of days away from home to work intensively on getting The Earth Has Teeth work done.
From my writing playlist: Stress Hug by Mushroomer from the Pathologic 2 OST. (yes, that album is a large proportion of the playlist)
Writing Progress
I finished drafting Chapter 4 and I sent all four chapters off to my editor! Hooray! I also put up Chapters 1 and 2 for everyone to play. It's been absolutely delightful hearing what people think and I've been busily working on improvements. I put up an update yesterday with a lot of corrections and additions as well.
Excerpt of the PC and Roschin going drinking (not for sober PCs, obviously)
Wordcount
Total The Earth Has Teeth wordcount: 116867 words
Average The Earth Has Teeth playthrough: 35832 words
Fortnight progress: 11793 words
Next writing
April is a quieter month for me, writing wise, due to childcare and a holiday later in the month. However, I'm planning to work on revisions to Chapter 1 and 2 in response to player feedback, and the latter two chapters once my editor's notes come in.
Some Chapter 1 and 2 revisions that I'm planning include:
Expanding a section of Chapter 1 to increase sense of drama and suspense
Revising the Chapter 2 intro again: I like the change I made but it helped me clarify that the timeskip doesn't work the way I wanted it to. So I'm going to add a longer, real-time section here.
Some smaller revisions including expanding PC's awareness about what might be best to do with [the thing you find at the end of Chapter 2]
My goal is to release the revised Chapter 1-2 during May on Patreon with the above changes along with anything else that I decide to include. I'm not sure of the exact date yet, but I'll keep you posted.
Next up on Patreon
5th April: Q&A post (Sneak Preview and above)
8th April: Auguste story (Bonus Supplement)
Other thoughts
For Royal Affairs and Honor Bound, I made character posts about what it was like to write them, my intentions with them, how they changed as I wrote them, etc. It occurred to me that I never did that for the Creme de la Creme major characters: would you be interested in me doing them here? Let me know!
