Weekly Update - 27 May, 2024 (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

As you may be aware, I'm currently in the middle of a week or so off writing before I make the plunge into doing work for FoA's sequel, Blood of the Living. At the end of this week and into the beginning of next, I anticipate starting up on that, with some work on mundane things like a spreadsheet of variables I can refer to and hopefully setting up a save-emulation system so that (until I'm far enough along that a save import feature will be added by HG), at least the most important variables can be set per playthrough.

Then of course there will be outlining and a bit more dedicated plotting—I have a bunch of skeletons in the proverbial plot closet at the moment, and I'll want to add at least a little bit of flesh to them before I get writing properly.

That said, at this point I do anticipate I will be writing properly again by mid-June, and so the BIPs will resume, almost uninterrupted, on June 30. In the meantime I'll still have other Patreon stuff for you as normal, including the poll in a few days and the first monthly bonus content next week.

I'm also looking at restructuring the Patreon so the BIP is available at a lower tier, but I'm a little worried about it. This is my only income (yay for being both somehow overqualified for entry level jobs and not having enough experience for any others!) so making that change might shift my income from 'barely sustainable' to 'not even close,' which is a bit of a concern, as you might imagine.

Maybe I'll hold off on that until FoA is published, at least.

Anyway, ad ever, feedback on my half-baked ideas is welcome, but I'll keep pondering anyway. The more important part is, I'm already starting to a bit better after the rest I've had, so hopefully I'll be able to hit the ground running on BOTL!