Hello everybody!
Chapter Two of I, the Unbroken One has finished preliminary editing and is now ready for paid Patreon early access, available to $5 tier or higher. It is 65,000 words total a...
2025-11-15 02:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe grunt writing for Chapter Two has been completed at 65,000 words!
I am going to spend the next few days editing and reviewing it with a trusted small group before opening it to one week e...
2025-11-10 19:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I apologize for delaying this progress update by so much, but that whole week where I wasn't able to write meant I didn't have much of anything to report. I am now, however, back fully in th...
2025-11-05 19:35:39 +0000 UTC View PostEmpty hulks of starships are littered throughout the void of space like roadkill. There are countless ways for something to go wrong in flight, and the nature of the empty vacuum means ...
2025-11-03 02:24:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Halloween!
I just wanted to announce that the topic of Short Story #3 has been changed by executive decision to be a Whiskey-Four horror(?) special to celebrate the spooky. Unfortunate...
2025-10-31 23:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostI've been trucking away on a long series of Obren romance variants, which has been interesting to say the least. I don't want major romantic developments (the literal ones, like kissing and the emo...
2025-10-28 00:07:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! I am creating this poll on public library wifi. I have had predictably little time to work on ITUO at all this week, but I still want to get this poll out so I can have a topic to f...
2025-10-24 17:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been an absolute pain in the posterior trying to balance the pacing between the three critical variants. I love to use POV cuts and strategically placed time skips to maintain the drama and ...
2025-10-17 17:35:50 +0000 UTC View PostI have news of both kinds for this report.
Firstly, the bad: I will be on a road tour with a choir I am a part of (long story, don't ask) and will have very little time to write in t...
2025-10-17 17:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostWith the "grunt writing" complete, I have shifted now toward writing the primary three variations of regent, monarch, and loyalist. Moving between their three tones and mental development has been ...
2025-10-07 19:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe progress continues!
Life has gotten a whole lot busier recently, so writing has been difficult. I've effectively cut out all writing other than ITUO, so I've made hardly any progress on o...
2025-10-03 22:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post[Ulysses/Ulyssa and Male Whiskey]
I so desperately wanted to leave Sahara.
It was almost feverish. Whenever I sat and looked up, and I had Whiskey at my sid...
2025-09-27 22:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The "grunt writing" of Chapter Two has finished. I have reached the end of the loyalist route! Next comes the long and painful task of going back through and adding all of the variation to previous...
2025-09-26 15:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostLife has gotten a lot more busy recently, and while the Short Story poll has just concluded, I've been largely focused on the grunt writing of ITUO. It will be published soon, likely on Friday. But...
2025-09-22 22:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostLife circumstances have gotten a lot more busy recently, but I've still managed to stay firmly on track with the writing. My progress toward interactive short stories stalled as I realized that I c...
2025-09-18 23:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the poll for the second short story topic. I want to give Whiskey-Four a little bit of love, so the poll here will be focused on it and I'll switch back to the world of ITFO and ITUO next t...
2025-09-17 02:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostI'm continuing to write at a very good pace, likely halfway(?) done with the second chapter. It is most probably going to need to be split in two, delaying the reunion with Milon and Lada and the i...
2025-09-12 16:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostI've finished the series of conversations and shifted onto the continued march to Winstead (a town on the way to Castle Tanta/Jutrea). I'm quite pleased with how they all turned out, but there's st...
2025-09-05 18:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn the last fifteen days since the first progress report, I have been quite busy. I will continue to be quite busy for the foreseeable future. However, my progress on ITUO has continued at a very s...
2025-09-03 23:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post[Darin and Female Marshal]
It was so damn dark in the jungle. I’s don’t know how the men who lived there could stand it. I didn’t know why our ancestors tri...
2025-09-03 01:53:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the poll for the first short story topic. I will start to post these more regularly and make them a consistent part of membership benefits.
Disclaimer: there is a chance that stories ...
2025-08-27 17:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe writing for ITUO continues at a nice pace. I'm hard at work with a series of conversations between the Marshal and pretty much every named character I can think of, except Miljenko, the monk, a...
2025-08-26 00:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostI have been highly productive in writing the second chapter, moving at nearly double the speed I thought I would. I'm quite happy with progress so far, and now I've begun to think about ways to exp...
2025-08-25 18:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostI have just created and opened a Tumblr blog for my Interactive Fiction endeavors, the link to which can be found here 2025-08-22 19:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Two picks up ten days after where the first leaves off. Its current (working) title is "The Winstead Affair". The ultimate end of the chapter is the reunion between the Janowitz siblings an...
2025-08-21 21:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe link to the active forum page for the development of I, the Unbroken One can be found 2025-08-20 01:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite my absolutely terrible inefficiency in 2025, I have finally managed to reach a point with the first chapter of I, the Unbroken One which I am happy with.
It is about ninety t...
2025-08-20 00:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostAugust 19, 2025: “Writing the Unhinged”
One of my inexplicably favorite things to write–and maybe this an indictment against my character–is the internal dialogue of ...
2025-08-20 00:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post