Hey Boo,
Things are good. My partner just had her birthday and we celebrated and my work flow is weird even though I had an official extra day off.
There are these scenes when you are writing that can be emotional. They choke me up and sometimes, I lose track of what is supposed to choke up the audience. It gets to me because I'm supposed to be in this character's head. They are made up of little pieces of my personality and experiences. I have the entire picture of what they've been through and where it is going. But sometimes, you are just writing a scene where they stub their toe and you get choked up.
My thought's are like, am I a failure if this doesn't make someone cry?
The answer is no. They stubbed their toe. Touch grass. But for the reader, with good context and consistent toe stubbing, so should come emption.
Or at least the nod/chin scratch. However you tolerate your squishy emotions.
Choices
I had this whole thing talking about choices and where I was able to find people's feedback. I had a bit of what my goals are and my thought processes were but I think I have said all that stuff before. I couldn't think of the simple words.
Role Play
I want people to role play.
Say what you want to say. Talk to who you want to talk to. It's early on and I want all the girls to have a fair shot and solid first impression. But I essentially want people to role play. Part of role playing means things change. I don't have a lot of confidence that enough things change for multiple play throughs. But I still want difference to be there and for people to have slightly different experiences that they can share with each other.
I love the theory crafting and comparing screenshots and events that happens.
Progress Report
I have been prepping outfits and locations. I test lights for different times of day. Girls T-posing in locations. I'm really hoping I don't need fifteen hundred renders.
The writing could be going faster. It isn't the rate that I like to write things. But as my partner says, you can't write something for the first time over again. Maybe that is the cost for some writing. I'll probably have to rewrite it anyway!
There are two major sections in the next updates script and I want to get that script out to content editors and proof readers before the next progress report.
Then tagging images, making a list of the tags, and I'll have an accurate idea how many renders I'll be looking at.
Hiring and Artist
Nothing has been done on this front.
Twitter
We've been having some twitter fun. I've been doing a strip poll. I make a render and people vote on what cloths to take off and what poses to put the girls in and they act mildly annoyed and embarrassed.
Full posts in this months rewards but I have one more round.