November 2025 Forecast

I was going to wait until you know ... actual November but meh. It allows me to not have to remind myself to do this.

I don't give two fucks about this month. Thanksgiving is a capitalistic ploy. The weather is sometimes shit, sometimes holy. My dog wants me to walk him in negative fucking degrees. I am going to my first ren faire so that'll be fun. Watch it rain.

October was good though so I'm still on a hot streak with that month making me happy. Work got completed, horror movies were watched, I started to work with the horses more, and rips the page up, and that's where we'll stop. You guys don't need anything more with that. Let's get to what you guys care about.

I'll put it here and below, Chris and Rahim's stories are completed and up. Should be bug free as I've already gone through them twice.

November's Plan

Yea, changing this up a bit because of how this will go. I am taking place in the November monthly challenge. The big plan is that I finish Nour this month. I'll add more detail below so I can be 100% transparent about why Nour is still not finished. But! Because I don't want to potentially get stuck on creating one story and then realize it's not working and getting nothing done, I have back up plans.

• Plan A: Nour is given all my focus and I go in and make all the changes needed plus finish the 2 to three chapters that are needed for that to happen.

  • Finishing Goal: FINISH NOUR

• Plan B: In case my brain starts to get stuck, Plan B is that I work some on Nour and some on Sea of Stars. I'll divide the attention up between these two.

  • Finishing Goal: Either finish Nour or get all of their changes done and simply have the epilogue and extra chapters left. As well as have written a total of 50-100k words for Sea of Stars, getting well over into Part Two of SoS.

• Plan C: I throw in a third member, Superstition. "Tee, this seems like a lot." You. Do. Not. Understand. My. Brain. Superstition due to being mostly rewriting means I have a bit more of a break. With this, I'll probably work less on word count and more on rotating stories every week.

  • Finishing Goal: Not quitting.

• Plan D: I quit and I will literally cancel patreon, give ya'll refunds, and disappear. Releasing the stories when I'm well into my fifties. I am not joking.

For You Guys: I'll be digging in which means it'll kinda be a repeat of me kinda disappearing. I know that makes it look like I'm not doing shit and I hate it but I don't ever do anything about it so what I'll do is sneak peeks. Period of what I'm working on, no matter how boring. It'll be kind of like a sneak peek and update thing cos I'll drag you guys with me on this journey.

Nour's Issue skip to Other cos this is long

It is so obvious that Nour has not gotten through like Ruben. Ngl, Ruben's tropes were more my speed. So much of Nour just feels like it's not working. I feel like Ruben had a more natural progression, the shift happened better, the romance was just enough. Whereas for Nour it feels like nothing really gets settled on the relationship front and by the time the story ends, Nour is still much the same.

I had to sit down and talk it out with folks to figure out where Nour is failing. After a lot of discussion I do think it has to come down to how I'm handling Phoenix. Obviously this Phoenix is not going to experience the same lesson as Ruben's. Whereas Ruben's Phoenix was more so learning on how to reclaim their life and the "find something worth smiling about" which was life, Nour's Phoenix isn't exactly needing that. Nour's Phoenix lesson is simply, make your own choices. Shoutout to my girl Neri for her monologue about Phoenix never being able to say 'no.'

Another thing brought up was how Phoenix has been reduced into more of an object. Tyrae is using them for experiments and only cares enough about Phoenix to keep them going. They are something to manipulate. Ruben doesn't help because Phoenix becomes a prize to be won when they get captured and then placed around him (still the theme of "you are not a person") and Nour doesn't initially help either as they don't really love Phoenix but past Phoenix and even then more of the past that Nour has created in their head. I want to keep that theme forefront, to where even random people either overlook Phoenix or just seem to pound that idea into their mind. (Sorry Toz, your goodness is about to be cut.) Phoenix isn't supposed to feel or talk about how uncomfortable they are or what they don't like and do. They are meant to stand there and take it.

And hopefully that's how Nour gets it in their head that they need to change.

I'll probably be removing Phoenix's drug addiction and taking another look at their touch aversion. It will probably be staying but I need to figure out how I want to do it. I know the part where you can choose whether Xeno or Mikitas rescues you is gonna change to Nour. I want them to have that time. Team dynamics will be altered and I'll be doing a second look at Nour's preferences (may not change) and what skills matter the most in Nour's.

Hopefully, all of this leads to Nour's story being what I want. I get that I could've been done with Nour but I'd feel like utter shit and my anxiety will shoot through the roof if I put out something that I'm not happy with simply to finish them faster.

Damn, you still reading?

Other

• Again, Chris and Rahim's Royalty AU stories are completed and up on the 13Stories link. It didn't make sense for me to make an ENTIRELY different link (and making the UI, pictures, graphics, etc.) when I literally have one that suits the work sitting right there.

• The girls are kinda all over the place so I can't give an accurate percentage because I was jumping all over the place with them and then had to re-edit some things since I went back on adding the boys romance routes to their stories. Zillah is unlucky as though I did end up getting an idea for how I want his story to go thanks to the guys, I didn't switch over to him. They'll be picked back up in December.