Monthly Update - October 2023

Hello there! October has been quite a... peculiar month for me. It's been a rather tough month, to be honest. The heat has been unbearable, and I've had several personal issues crop up, which have taken a toll on my health from the beginning. Even today, I'm still not fully recovered. To summarize, life haha.

Due to this twist in my life, I haven't written as much as I had planned. Nevertheless, I estimate that I have a little less than half of the chapter written, which I’m glad! Though there are many things to consider that will require review and plenty of testing when the editing process starts. But, even if I haven't accomplished as much as I would have liked, I'm happy to see progress!

Apart from this, there are other things I have done and am proud of. The first, and perhaps the less 'important,' if I can put it that way, is that I continue to tweak some scenes from previous chapters to make them more coherent and true to the story I want to tell. These are just a few details, but they make a difference, I assure you! In all of this, I've been contemplating changing the narrative style of the story. I started writing Remnants of The Past in second person because that's how most interactive novels I've read are written (in fact, my favourite is written in second person). However, for some reason, I've recently started writing short stories in first person, and I find it charming too. It's not something I'll change anytime soon, but if I were to, what would you prefer, to read Remnants of The Past in first person or second person?

The second, and the one I like the most, is that I've almost finished all the character drawings! Leire/Luca, Rayco/Gara, and Ada/Omar are done. Only Albert/Lavina are left to add to the game's information, which I think I'll be able to do this very week if everything goes well! They should be ready in a couple of days. *cough* I also have a drawing of the ‘nameless’. *cough* After that, I'll do the same for non-romance characters. Enid deserves her own drawing too!

This brings me to the third thing I've been working on, which is a Patreon page. The page is nearly complete, with its information, subscription tiers, and a couple of posts. However, it hasn't been published yet and won't be for a while yet. I'd like there to be at least some content for all the tiers before making it public. Among that content there will be character illustrations, Q&A sessions with characters, extra scenes, special and/or thematic scenes outside of the main story, and more. It will take time, but I hope to share it soon!

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Happy Halloween if you celebrate it, and have a fantastic month! See you at the end of November ;)