Saturday Devlog (October 29)

Hi everyone, I hope you're staying safe and healthy!

So - I've got both good and bad news for this week's update. The good news is that I managed to reach the 25k-word threshold originally envisioned for October's update. The bad news is that I wrote both ends of the update (the very beginning & the very end), and left the bridge between them for last; a big mistake, since the 25k-word storyboard now looks instead to be closer to 40k words! This leaves me with two distinct halves with no bridge to link them, and I fear I don't have it in me to speedrun the remaining writing required...

That being said, I do still have enough in the first half to cobble together a respectable update. It's sitting at ~15k words right now, and I'm doing my best to push it in the ballpark of 20k words by update day. As is usually the case when I don't meet my wordcount targets, Patreon charging will be turned off for next month. Another ~20k-word update will drop in November, before Patreon charging again resumes in December.

For the sake of full transparency, I had been intending to take November off from writing, due to multiple big college projects coinciding in the month. But with most of the next update already written, I believe it won't be hard to sneak in the writing necessary to fully complete the update!

I also would like to apologize for AMR's fitful production schedule as of late. I grossly overestimated my ability to juggle the workloads of both AMR and uni work, and it's left me a bit overwhelmed at times. That being said, this should significantly abate after I complete the remainder of this semester. I have two semesters left in college, each of which is worth 8-10 credits (as opposed to my current semester's 24), which should give me a lot of room to write AMR more consistently!

All arts and things are coming along smoothly; I'm only waiting on a couple of pieces to be polished, which the artists have promised will be done today. On account of how close we are to update day, I intend to skip the Sneak Peek for this week; in exchange, I will soon be uploading a second A Murder of Gods sneak peek (albeit one much shorter than the last one!)

As a reminder, here are the other things to expect as we close out the month - a set of class-swap illustrations of the White Fangs for October's Monthly Features, a phantasma illustration of Oiral, the Visionary, and another illustration of A Murder of Gods' titular gods!

The next time we dip our toes into an AMoG feature, we'll finally be taking a look at the human characters. I will have a post up some time in November describing the major cast members in full, with Arcanists also being able to vote on the order in which their portraits are completed.

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