Update 25th Aug '24
Added 2024-08-25 12:50:07 +0000 UTCRough week.
I've been suffering with a nasty ulcer on the underside of my tongue, which - while trivial in the grand scheme of illnesses - has been a nuisance in being painful enough to make eating and sleeping difficult.
I'm still struggling to make headway with Temptacia and fear in trying to push it has ended up getting myself all blocked up. I need to have a rethink with these mini-boss scenarios as they seem to be causing some problems at the moment. Maybe release them partially and add alternate scenarios as they're completed? I'm not sure. It feels like they're taking far longer than they should and worrying about not getting them written fast enough is only exacerbating the problem.
I do have the short story I wrote last week. My plan is to get that typed up so I'll have something to put out before the end of the month.
In mentioning I'd written it, a few did contact me in that they were glad to hear news of new stories being written, as that's one aspect of my output I had been neglecting in the focus on HoHH.
If progress on Temptacia still feels stuck I might spend the first week or so of September just writing some short fiction again to see if that gets things moving. My muse is fairly fickle and chaotic, so telling it I need to write some short stories for a collection will probably be the thing that gets me writing Temptacia and other mini-bosses as a distraction behaviour!
Apologies for the slow week and what seems to be a less-productive month. Here's a sketch of the curvaceous Lady Flumpth, who is currently part of the batch in progress by marwmellow.
- manyeyedhydra
