I spend the whole week working on the script of scene 19. I progressed, a lot. But it doesn't mean it's a good thing. The scene is now about 11.5k and I only developed one and a half of the six different path variants I've planned. That's a problem because the scene heads into the "way too big" territory. 12 k words already mean about 400 renders if I stick to my ideal words per render ratio and I have no idea how big the scene will be once finished with all the variants included. Maybe 18 or 20 k words if I'm lucky. But that would mean I'll have to spend several months posing about 800 renders. I can't spend that much time on a single scene. I have to keep the whole update around 1000 renders if I want to finish it in less than 6 months. That means 30 k words at the maximum for the whole update. I won't make it if I start directly with a scene that big.

I don't have a choice. I have to trim it. Remove some content, postpone it for later, and rewrite what I keep to make it smaller. The 11.5k words I already wrote have to transform into something closer to 6 or maybe 7 thousand words.

Another issue however is that I'm quite happy with those one-and-a-half path variants I already wrote. 

So it's going to be painful. I'm first going to work on the common segment of the scene, there are several parts of it I'm not happy with and that I would have ended rewriting anyway. But I already know that won't be enough. 

It's quite ironic because I started that scene having a hard time coming up with the emotions I needed and now I'm writing so much that it has become a problem.

And of course, it's a very important scene. Failing it isn't an option.

The quick sum up :

• Day 6 Part 2 will contain 8 scenes (Scenes 19 to 26).
• I'm writing scene 19. 11 267 words so far.

You can follow my progress on this Trello board.

Thank you for your support!

The Naughty Captain