Weekly Update: 23-10-24 (Patreon)

Honestly, not much to update this week. Real-life has made it difficult to get to the keyboard, with very little down- or personal-time to spend on writing. Fortunately, I've got a unique opportunity coming in which to make up the lost time.

Basically, my birthday is approaching and it's one of those 'significant' numbers that end in a -0 or a -5. Consequently, I've decided to treat myself this year. I've been squirreling away some of the money that comes in from the patreon, and used it to book an AirBnB for a couple of nights, somewhere cheap and a little remote, but still reachable by train, with--and this was the key factor that made finding a place a little challenging--a work desk. I've basically arranged a little "writing retreat" for the weekend, away from the distractions of normal life.

Originally, I'd planned on using this time for starting a so-called "real" novel, but I don't think that's really possible with an incomplete story living in my brain. So instead, I'll be using the time to (hopefully) blaze a path through Constant. It may end up being an absolute disaster, in which I find myself distracted by other things, but I remain optimistic. I mean, Stallone supposedly wrote Rocky in a weekend, right? I have no expectation of actually finishing the story, but if I cranked out a solid ten or twenty thousand words, that would be pretty amazing, and bring the story that much closer to its ending. At the very least, it'll give me a little mental space to work through the remaining planning, clean up some plot points a bit, and refocus on reaching the conclusion.

Coming Week:

Monday: Sneak Peek from chapter 5-5, for all members

Wednesday: Release of chapter 5-4 (about 8.5k words) for Constant members and above

Friday: Weekly Update and Writing Retreat