[progress] check-in (Q3, 2023)

So far…

• 261,413 words (based on illume proofing method calculation)
• dotgraph image shows overview of chapter 14’s current branching progress

I want to thank the few reviewers for leaving nice comments in their rating 💖, and others for having rated the project. Every little bit helps, as I don’t have the energy to maintain a consistent social media presence. I want to thank Pastel for alerting me to a logic error between chapter 9 to 10, it’s scary to think about the ramification of future coding related to that one error (but mostly it’s my fault for making things so complicated, haha). I definitely want to thank J for being my consistent alpha-tester. <3

I’m feeling the weight of the complexity of the project everyday with more flag variables being added. I want to keep the complexity (because otherwise I needed not to do this project when I’m not a reader/writer to begin with) but also be careful not to burn myself out (already very tired mentally). At some point I really have to re-read chapter 1-13, tweak variables, and remember all the flag variables that I set before that haven’t been used, then either trim them or incorporate them in the future narrative. I just haven’t been able to find the motivation to go back and lose forward momentum. ChoiceScript game Diaspora has reached its ending after 6 years, so this project might take that long or longer… T_T

There may be more bugs as I try to fix them… ^_^;

Thank you for your patience. Have a good holiday months for 4th quarter of 2023!