John Louis
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10/3/25: Progress Report 4
🕑 Added 2025-10-03 22:29:29 +0000 UTCThe 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 other projects. I have, however, pushed the word count of Chapter Two up to 45,000 words.
I am relatively certain that the chapter won't actually feel that long, though. There is a lot of variation. Every deep conversation effectively needs three variations for Book One endings, then any variations based on the happenings of Book Two and then internal variations. It's a lot.
It feels like taking the extreme branchiness of the Whiskey-Four finale and extending it over an entire chapter (and likely the entire book). If I had to give a final word count estimate, I would say likely just under double of ITFO, likely 750-800k.
That is all for now. I apologize for my relative silence on here, Tumblr, and on the Forum. Before, I was able to manage all the platforms and write, but life circumstances have forced me to pick one and writing always should come first.
Comments
Kevin Zhou
Let him cook
WarriorOmen
Life's gonna life at you. The works worth waiting for. Good luck!
