This month I was busy with apartment hunting, but I’m happy to say that I found one and I’m looking forward to moving out at the end of the year! My original plan for November was to do my usual 50k words challenge (particularly now that NaNo 2.0 has risen up to fill some of the void left by NaNoWriMo), but this also ended up being my first month of sick leave, so I decided to take it easy and instead ensure that I work on Fish Hook every day at least a little, regardless if it’s writing, drawing or something else.

For this month, I managed to reach a total of ~39,000 words and more or less finish chapter 6. I have now passed the halfway mark, and much of my word count this month is coming from the build-up before the climax of the flashback story, which have been some of my favourite parts to write so far. Every part of me wants to go back and start editing the earlier parts already, but by now I know from experience there is no point doing it, because by the time I’m done, I already want to rewrite them anyway lol. So I’m entirely focused on finishing the first draft and only then start the first round of edits.

I also started my Fish Hook website coding project, and I’ll probably be able to roll it out within a few days! I’m not much of a coder and I’ll be using the visual layout style of the current carrd page so I don’t need to start layout planning further, but I’m happy about the freedom html+css are giving me compared to carrd’s features. I’ll likely make it look prettier in the future when I have the game’s UI nailed down, and after I learn a bit more about what bootstrap can offer me. I’ll also have to decide whether I’ll give Fish Hook it’s own website, or whether I want to attach it under the domain of what will one day be my main website.

That’s about it for this month, I think. Here’s also some art I drew earlier in the month while trying to decide a visual style for the game’s CGs. I’ll probably going to be using this style for the game proper, since I think it perfectly balances the feeling I want to convey while also being somewhat time-efficient in terms of lining.

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