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Extended Progress Update: 12 April 2024
🕑 Added 2024-04-12 12:30:02 +0000 UTCHi Returning Visitors,
Key highlights of this update and reminders:
My typical gentle nudge to remember to add my email address can be found here. It's important for the TFS character portrait inquiries and welcome message I promptly send out. Also, remember to check your spam folder and to reach out to me, if needed.
The Corvin family dinner outline is done! ๐ (There is still more to this chapter besides the dinner though.)
I've begun writing on this sprawling chapter after finishing up the outline.
Book Two Snippet: I wonder how a meeting between C and B will go? It depends on your Returning Visitors. ๐
I feel my use of a granular for the extended outline was a mild understatement. ๐ By the time I was finished with the Corvin family dinner, it spanned about 18 bulleted pages that were very colored-coded with highlights. ๐จIt took me a little longer (around the 6th of April) than I had hoped, but it will make the writing easier going forward. I have the major scenes, optional locations, and variations all broken down. If anything, I'm even more eager to start a writing blitz. Much like Mrs. Corvin's lasagna, it will have layers. ๐
The variations within it will invite you to try different character dynamics and choices!
Edit: As of where I'm at in the outline rn, your Returning Visitors have officially seen the Corvin's home again, yay! ๐ฅ (There were optional scenes during the drive/start first.)
At one point, I did mention about how this dinner can pose a unique opportunity for the MC to also share more about their past, which I've incorporated into the outline.
There will be choices to let the MC share how they met B from a list of choices that you'll get to pick for your MC. The meeting might have happened at university, B might have quite literally tripped and fell into your MC's life (lol), you could have been roommates, and more. ๐ I'm not going to spoil the options, but there will be plenty of them that unlock scenes with your bestie and reactions from the Corvins. Keeping the MC's past relatively reader-decided within TFS's plot construct is important. It lets you shape your character! (The life outside of Fernweh slowly decaying as the stay progresses can be a theme.) This conversation gives a chance to further that since naturally Mrs. Corvin may have questions for you that you can elect to answer or just gnaw on Italian bread. Yum!
(No, seriously, I have a note to potentially let the MC avoid small talk via the bread basket, but I must have come up with it while I was tired or feeling a little zany. ๐ It happens.)
Hopefully, you're looking forward to that, although that's just one aspect of the dinner conversation that will help you learn more about the Corvins and their family dynamic.
I'm excited to jump back into writing now that the intricate outline is done and reviewed!
The urge to drop hints about it is strong. B makes a Blair Witch reference. There's a mention about an engagement. Hmm, R wears something interesting (on the JR route only ๐). Huckleberry meets a new friend (Will it be your MC?). Your MC's emotions might be put through one of those pasta rollers depending on your choices. ๐ Mrs. Corvin's appearance is based on Lucy Lawless's because apparently all of the potential TFS mother-in-laws are stunning. ๐
Okay, I'm going to let this publish and go write, in case you can't tell I'm excited to.
As for our Patreon content, we've just had C's POV post recently that I encourage you to dissect beyond their, er, unique attitude. XD The spicy writing is inching ever closer along with a ramble about Mal's need to tailor things to the MC. We still have posts ahead with the alpha drop at the end of this month that includes many character encounters.
[Spoilers Ahead!]
Here's an excerpt from Book Two:
Charles
Jealousy spikes through you chased by sharp uncertainty that prompts you to glance over at Becca who's watching you with an unsaid concern. Your reaction is controlled; she just knows you too well. You tap your fingers along the steering wheel to loosen them up, inaudibly inhaling to keep a calm expression.
"No one."
"You were lowkey strangling the wheelโฆ"
"No, I wasn't," you quickly retort. "That's Charles Schade, another bloodline, andโ"
"Someone we don't like," Becca knowingly remarks.
"โsomeone who followed after Ruby when we were all younger like a lackey. That's all."
Charlene
Jealousy spikes through you chased by sharp uncertainty that prompts you to glance over at Beckett who's watching you with an unsaid concern. Your reaction is controlled; he just knows you too well. You tap your fingers along the steering wheel to loosen them up, inaudibly inhaling to keep a calm expression.
"No one."
"You were lowkey strangling the wheelโฆ"
"No, I wasn't," you quickly retort. "That's Charlene Schade, another bloodline, andโ"
"Someone we don't like," Beckett knowingly remarks.
"โsomeone who followed after Reese when we were all younger like a lackey. That's all."
I selected something that links to C in honor of their recent writing.๐ This scene changes based on multiple dynamics (romance and friendship) and your choices.
Thank you so much for your support and encouragement. ๐
Wishing you all a lovely and safe weekend!
Comments
Bumblebee
I can't wait!!!! Oh so much to learn and decide and read!! And an *engagement*??? Hype hype hype hype I gotta knowwwww I'm keen to see what choices there are for how Phoebe met Bee. I've always headcanoned them meeting the year Phoebe left Fernweh - her first real friend outside of the town (because I *love* the adorable, romantic context that gives them falling in love. "The person that believed in me when I couldn't believe in myself. The one who's always been there, no matter what, who knows me almost better than I know myself." ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐๐) Jumping off of that, if C is anything less than an absolute delight to Bee, they'll learn very quickly that Bee isn't the only one willing to glass a bitch for their beloved ๐คฃ
dasburnfrau
I have so many thoughts about the use of the term bloodline specifically. Corvin dinner. Dinner at the Corvins. The dinner with Corvins. So casual. I am also very grateful for a list of background options. I have been overwhelmed with coming up with sufficiently different backgrounds, so thanks for taking one for the team there.
Idiot Sunfish
Lucy Lawless?? Unexpected but EXCITING crossoverโผ๏ธ Cannot wait to meet the Corvin family. ( And my MC shares the same reaction towards Charlene ๐ค)
alex
OHHHH CORVIN DINNER HERE WE COME I used to imagine Alex met Bee at their university so this might be the choice i go with, unless i see something else that fits too Ooohhhh mrs Corvin interrogation i mean curious questions ALSO LUCY LAWLESS??? Mrs Corvin do you need a second husband asking for a friend Depending on how C treats B, it might just be the thing that solidifies them as the absolute worst in Alex's mind lmao
