Some updates (Ais)

It's been awhile so I figured I should update the blog, although I don't know how many people actually read this.

The site redesign is still on hold, pending me deciding whether I want to give up my stubborn ways and make things a hell of a lot easier in the short run but not necessarily in the long run... or continue to stall everything with this elusive future in which I will actually get off my ass and figure out how to properly code everything. I'm a cheap bastard who apparently, in some cases, has control issues so I've been trying to go the "I create everything mostly from scratch and design it all myself and know exactly how it works" route rather than the "I can make it fast and pretty and super interactive by using a WYSIWIG but then pay more and be at the mercy of the program creator" route. Dualing options! Who will win?! More at 10.

We've finished the interludes (yay + wtf there were a thousand more than we intended?) and have started into Fade/Book Three. There is the shortest preview ever** available at our forum iffin' you didn't see already, although I suspect you have if you've found this squirreled-away blog since the link to the teaser is très easier to find.

(**Actually, the shortest preview ever would probably have to be simply this: "A". Try to figure out where we're going in the story with THAT, bitches!)

We're currently working on Fade chapter 3. Doesn't sound like we're super far into it, I know. Our schedules are crazy clashing for the most part. But honestly-- I've said this before somewhere I'm sure and I'll say it again-- in this case, I think the delay has been very good. I thought I was ready for writing before and I was, but this extra time off has gotten me even more excited about Fade. I think it has for both of us.

As a result, I'm being more creative in some regards. I had enough time to write a whole bunch of scenes for background story in the interim between the last Interlude and the first chapter of Fade... The majority of those scenes are now defunct because I changed certain aspects but that's really good. It gave me the opportunity to explore a few options and then determine which I liked best. I kind of needed those months to mull over shit that had been on my mind for awhile.

And, what gets me more excited is some things have come up that I wasn't expecting. I created a character I really like now who I hadn't planned to introduce before. But in doing so it helped make some things fit. I know I'm being vague. Trying not to say anything that requires a spoiler alert.

The down side, of course, is that now I'm all raring to write Fade 24/7 and we still have our schedules to contend with, and crazy domestic things like, you know, work. What's up with that, anyway? Anyone want to donate a million dollars to me so I can pay off all my bills and chillax at home and write more stuff and make the site super awesome? You know you do.

No?

Well. Guess I'll have to start hitting up fancy functions to find my sugar momma after all.