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scheduled break yesterday. 1.7 today.
started off expanding this into an older file and i can already see how my approach to writing in inky has changed

so for the unfamiliar, inky is a structural tool developed and used by the studio behind 80 Days and the Sorcery! series... neither of which I have personally played.
but the tool is nice as far as a quick, pre-existing framework for managing choices and text flow, and there was support for godot.
we tried out a lot of things like this before settling on this one.

nevertheless, i am still learning to use it-- and especially learning to use it effectively.
while i would consider myself to still be at the beginning of that journey, upon opening the file i was immediately struck with a good case study in how my approach to writing in it has already started to change.
they provide a system of flow management tools to break up the text into individual bites that can be jumped to from anywhere (knots and stitches, they call it).
so at the start, my initial writing sessions did not use that very effectively. it's like, one big wall of linear text.
already, i've started getting into the habit of making my segments much more bite-sized.
smaller pieces means it's easier to usefully jump back and forth between them.
i'm also much more likely to just section out small amounts of text into their own stitch, even if it's just a line or two, rather than including it all in one.
if extra flexibility can exist, it seems a mistake not to make use of it.

on top of looking back and seeing how that's changed already, i can extrapolate that,
okay, as i'm learning, this is evidently the direction i'm going
ergo, i can infer that as i continue to learn, i will probably continue to go in that direction
i.e perhaps i can expedite that learning process by making it a goal to take my current motion of change and go even further with it-- use even more diverts and stitches than i already currently am.

i find it is often the case that the ways in which we have improved are also the ways in which we still need to-- just to greater extents.

learning how to learn is its own challenge.