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MB Update: First Part of Chapter 13 (More to come on the 30th!)

This only includes non-Nover!Buttons' Caleb's route so far (both with usb and without) and Noh's POV (which I'm still figuring out where to put given that my plot has been rearranged).

Either way, I'm being less productive than I should be right now due to sleepiness. Still, there's a couple of nice juicy reveals (and there will be another 10,000 or so words by Monday).

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Mind Blind Update: All Of Chapter 12 (Chapter 13 In A Few Hours!)

Late last night I had an epiphany that required changing the first scene of Chapter 13 (more detailed explanation with spoilers after the ellipsis!). This also meant tweaking the interim scene in Chapter 12 which was meant to go before Noh's scene, a task which I mostly accomplished today (and should have the beginning with up in an hour or so, thus why this post is just temporary).

In doing so, the scene became to long and I decided to end Chapter 12 a little earlier than intended. Ess...

Writer's Blog: Drama, oh Drama! Wherefore Art Thou So Difficult?

Mind Blind Wordcount: 389k (with 375k ready to be uploaded tomorrow)

Next Patreon Update: Tomorrow evening! Will include Chapter 12's missing scenes and the first part of Chapter 13.

The more I write, the more I learn about what works and what doesn’t. There’s nothing too revolutionary in this week’s blog, but I wanted to share some of my musings on why certain scenes work and others don’t fully resonate with me (yet).

Per...

MB Blooper Reel . . . of Button's Bloopers

For those not on discord: Kenzie’s date and the second file for Chapter 12 will be uploaded Saturday, along with the first of Chapter 13 (which has two main alternate pathways). One of these split scenes in Chapter 13 is based off Chapter 2’s assignment as far as variability and options.

(Warning: slight spoilers ahead.)

Originally, this scene contained a plethora of ways for Button to fail just like in Chapter 2. However, I then realized that this task ultima...

Lady Death's Diary: Chapter 18

“Where are we going?” I asked.

Xander’s grin widened at the audible growl in my voice. “We’re moving forwards,” he said.

Smug jerk. I shouldn’t have agreed to follow, but curiosity had gotten the better of me. And perhaps a part of me had latched onto an excuse to leave, to temporarily escape from Emilia’s sickroom and my own gnawing guilt.

After eliciting an oath from the nurse that he would send for me should Emilia’s condition change in the slightest, I�...

MB Short Story: Welcome To Game Night

Gray leaned across the dining room table. His dark gold hair stuck out at various sideways angles, strands reaching towards the sky after their recent liberation from the ballcap that rested on the table surface near his elbow, right besides a half-eaten calzone and a set of customized blue dice that matched his eyes (a stocking stuffer from Nick from yesterday’s Christmas). It was his first time being invited to the Wiseman Game Night, as well as his first time ever playing Dungeons and Dr...

Aeon Student Guide: Telemetry

Telemetry, also referred to as “farsight,” is the psychic ability wherein a Ment is able to accurately visualize a distant location in real time. Telemetrists are exceptionally rare, to the point where percentage is considered statistically moot. Unity has only twenty-eight Telemetrist AMOs in its global employ.

The longest distance ever seen across by a Telemetrist was conducted by Hope Wiseman, formerly of UCRT, who was able to witness an incident occurring on the Amalfi Coast des...

Chapter 12 Mini Update: Glitch's Date

Chapter 12 is now officially over 50,000 words! Which feels insane to me.

(SOS - Send Caffeine.) 

Noh's POV has been temporarily taken out of this release due to length necessitating that the chapter be separated into two files, and the second file (which includes K date and the interim scene back at Aeon) hasn't been fully bug-tested yet.

(I tried to get it all done, which is why this is releasing at 3am, but ultimately my contacts have run dry and I'm deciding to head...

Writer's Blog: The Korean Reunification

I’m still working on Glitch and Kenzie’s scenes. I wanted to get them edited and up tonight, but instead went down a creative rabbit trail for Chapter 13 and wrote an entire scene involving Santa, a drone, and a pigeon. (Sometimes, creating new stuff comes easier than editing and then I look at the clock and realize whoops it’s 9pm.)

(Speaking of new stuff, if anyone knows of any interesting ways to break into a house, feel free to share in the comments! I have around eig...

Chapter 12 Mini-Update: Rosy, to the Tune of Lamb Chop's Play-Along Theme Song

This is the Chapter that never ends 

Yes it goes on and on, my friends!

Some writer started writing it 

And wrote all about the loves

But she'll keep on updating it 

Tomorrow just because

Chapter 12 is over 45,000 words

But now 31,000 is now out

Have you heard?

And I realize that this post 

Won't make any sense

 Unless you watched Lamb Chop

And all of his friends as a kid

So I'm going to sto...

Delivery Teaser: Henri Galbraith

Henri(etta) Galbraith is a . . . well, the term “mad scientist” is outdated. Henri isn’t interested in reanimating the dead or marrying a pigeon. Rather, they’re a visionary whose experiments constantly blur the boundary between science and magic.

Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law stating that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? Henri knows that’s bunk. Magic and technology are completely different things, which is why dark magic flares from Hell...

Writer's Blog: Revisions and Dead Parents (More Connected Than You Think!)

I’m in Washington for the week visiting my mother (and, more importantly, my mother’s dog!), but should have the remaining three date scenes (Glitch, Kenzie, and Rosy) for Chapter 12 finished and uploaded on August 19th, which is the day after I get back to my desktop in Chicago. My desktop doesn’t freeze then overheat whenever I run Choicescript IDE to bug-hunt. Sally’s platonic pathway will be up on the 20th, as will alternate scenes in Chapter 10 that let Button stay at home instea...

MB Short Story: Duel (Ambrosia Version)

Ambrosia Kim was cold.

Not emotionally—although some, her most recent assignment among them, would claim that she’d long lost the capacity to feel compassion. Contrary to popular belief, however, Ambrosia’s inner life was not a frozen tundra, and she experienced feelings beyond the sliding scale that Justice had doodled in the margin of UCRT’s last mission report, which ranged from “Annoyed” to “Asshole” and had been accompanied by penciled cartoons of an angry-eyebrowed...

MB Short Story: Duel (Ambrose Version)

Ambrose Kim was cold.

Not emotionally—although some, his most recent assignment among them, would claim that he’d long lost the capacity to feel compassion. Contrary to popular belief, however, Ambrose’s inner life was not a frozen tundra, and he experienced feelings beyond the sliding scale that Justice had doodled in the margin of UCRT’s last mission report, which ranged from “Annoyed” to “Asshole” and had been accompanied by penciled cartoons of an angry-eyebrowed pen...

Lady Death's Diary: Chapter 17

I spent the night of my seventeenth birthday sitting in an upholstered chair next to Emilia’s bedside. I drifted in and out of sleep, jerking awake whenever my chin dipped to my chest. Hamen had departed late last night, returning to his house in Bellcrest proper where he lived with Emilia’s mother and brothers. He didn’t want his wife to hear the news about their daughter from a runner. Delphine had attempted to coax me into retiring to my own bed, but I had no intentions of leaving Em...