Saturday Devlog (October 23)
Added 2021-10-24 00:10:24 +0000 UTCHi, everyone! Happy Saturday, hope you're all staying safe and healthy. :)
It's been a strange time for writing this week, as I got to write one of my favorite scenes of the second book thus far, completely off-the-cuff. I'm not sure what triggered the burst of inspiration, as so far I've done nothing but follow my storyboards to the letter. But when looking at the end product, I feel too proud of it to leave it on the cutting room floor.
The problem is this: the scene in question interferes with the original outline, in a way that necessitates me to cut away other segments of the update--ones that have already been written. It also demands that the chapter's ending segments be told in timeskips rather than in chronologically continuous fashion as the rest of the chapter had been.
The consequence for this is that I've had to bin roughly 8000 words of writing. It was a very painful decision (T_T), but one that I feel has made the update more gripping and concise. The scene-deletion shenanigans does mean that the next update will only have roughly 15k words to its name, and so I will be turning it into another bonus update, and suspend Patreon charging for the month of November. You can still look forward to the bonus features near the end of the month, as those are on track to being completed soon!
This week's sneak peek will be uploaded soon, featuring the tail end of the scene in question. And lastly, a poll about the monthly side story will follow immediately after, with the story itself being released at the same time as the update.
That about wraps it up for this week's devlog. As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!
