Why did episode 1.15 take so long?

Spoilers for 1.15 in this report.

The main reason was a rewrite in week 7. I was struggling and struggling to make the first version of this episode work, but as I reported in that week:

I played through it again today and frankly it's just not that sexy. ☹️ I'm not happy with it, especially as a follow up to the previous episode.  Frankly...it's kind of boring.

From week 8, the main plot developments stayed, but I totally changed the execution. That improved the episode a lot, but it took more time.

Why did it need a rewrite?
I’ve reflected on this, and I think the main problem was that I didn’t have a clear enough picture in advance of what would make the episode sexy. I think I expected the hotness just to spring up organically when she went back to the club, but that didn’t happen.

In the end I was satisfied with the hotness of 1.15 (especially when compared with the first, unreleased version). I would have liked more time to spice it up, but it had taken too long already.

Ch-ch-changes
To prevent this happening again (🤞🏻), I tried something different this week.

I had a rough framework for the structure of episode 1.16 written out. Normally I just jump straight into writing, because I’m eager to make progress. But this week I forced myself not to.

Instead, I spent a lot longer than I normally do on scene planning. I tried to think through the player experience of each scene, and what would make the scenes hot and novel and interesting.

The details won't come out until the writing, so at this stage it's hard to be sure how helpful this was.  But I feel like I have a much clearer idea of how to make the scenes work, so hopefully it won't need any major rewrites this time.  🤞🏻😬🤞🏻

Next steps
The next objective is to create a rough storyboard for the episode.  I'll report back on progress next week.

Okay, that's all for this report.  Have a lovely weekend, guys, and I'll see y'all on Discord or here next week.  🥰

(More about storyboards: here)