Saturday Devlog (April 15)

Hello everyone! Happy Saturday once more, hope you're all staying safe and healthy!

Progress has been a bit of a mixed bag this week, with some elements that I'm really excited about and some that has unfortunately fallen short. On the former, I've finally found a way to integrate the Yu-F polyamory route into Book 2 in a way that I'm happy with! My initial instincts had been to go full angsty love triangle before we get to the fun part, and I've tried for five-ish updates now to hammer that into various sections of the book (to no avail). But this time around I've tried going for a more lighthearted route, and I'm actually quite satisfied with how it turns out! I've only currently completed one of the four possible variants of the polyamory kickoff, and it'll be a bit of a challenge to keep the feel of it the same across all variations, but for the first time I'm actually hopeful that the polyamory trigger I've written is here to stay!

Less happily, however, balancing writing with finals season and the Ramadan fast has indeed proven to be quite challenging, even though I've had a lot of Eureka moments this month as compared to past ones. I'm currently hovering around the 10k mark, which is significantly behind what I typically achieve by mid-month. I'm hoping that I'll be able to burst down the remainder of this update close to the end of the month, when finals will be finished and fasting season will be over (though there will be Eid around that time, which is also typically a very busy period T_T).

As mentioned last time, in the event that we don't meet our wordcount goals this month, this month's update will be rolled into May's, to the tune of a 35k words+ update. At this point I'm still uncertain whether that will be necessary, but I thought I'd be upfront about the possibility. I hope for your understanding!

I will be posting the promised double-feature sneak peek as soon as this devlog goes up, featuring (1) a day-off scene showcasing the schoolhouse alluded to in the past update, and (2) one of the possible variants of the Yu-F polyamory kickoff. Please look forward to it!

And that about wraps it up for this week's update. As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!