Happy New Year!

Writing Journal: About a week to go before The Adjusters #64 is ready. Not only did the Holidays wreak havoc with my already tenuous grasp of schedules, but my understanding of this part of the story has been a bit more nebulous than usual, so I want to make sure I get it right.

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Happy New Year! May it be good to you and yours.

Looking at back at 2015, it was an interesting year. Pretty good on the personal and professional level, though some of that goodness translated into me being more busy than usual, which itself translated into difficulty meeting personally imposed deadlines. C'est la vie.

One thing I wanted to do in 2015 that did not pan out was investigating interactive fiction a bit more. I've greatly enjoyed some of the interactive pieces and games that have come out in the last year (some of which I've talked about on this blog), and it's always tickled my fancy to write something in that vein.

My main problem is that whenever I start thinking interactive stories, whatever idea I have pretty quickly turns into something on the epic scale. It's how I'm wired. And that's a bad idea for a first interactive piece, I know from experience. Again, I've talked about this before.

Now, over the past month, two ideas for interactive stories have sort of survived the test of not blossoming into epic ventures. One of them is that mysterious project that I mentioned keeping me distracted for a week. I won't talk about it further, because it's still very fuzzy in my own head. The other is something I dreamed up over the Holidays that I wrote maybe 2000 words on. It's in Twine, so nothing spectacular interface-wise. I'll keep on tinkering with it, and if it survives my inevitable attention lag, I'll give you all a preview. I can give you the working title, but don't hold me to it, or to its eventual existence: The Night-Time Violations of Katja. It should be pretty twisted, even by my standards.

The only resolution I have for 2016 is to be more present here. And to put less pressure on myself. I will try hard to put out our monthly installments for our communal enjoyment, but if some happen to be late, then I won't give myself grief. With luck and a bit of work, I know I can return to a first-of-the-month update, but as long as I can deliver something roughly monthly, it'll be good enough for me. And, I hope, for you as well.

Cheers to 2016!