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CHRISTMAS SHORT | O QUINN | 11K WORDS

I completely forgot to make a post! O’s holiday special is up and it’s 11k words! I think it’s my favorite so far. I don’t get to write O like this often so I enjoyed it! Hope you do too :)

PLAY HERE

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davrin drawing from november

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Hey everyone

Writing is going to be stalled, yet again. My grandfather is in a coma right now and is not going to make it through. I'll be having to travel to help my family out and attend his funeral.

This is the third family member that has passed since I posted my last chapter. It's made writing nearly impossible.

Thank you for the ones that are still supporting me through Patreon. It's meant the world to me and my family and has meant the difference between getting church boxes for food and actually buying what we need.

I am hopeful that this is going to be the end to a very long few months of trying to keep it all together. No, I am not okay. But hopefully, after this, I can get back to some sort of routine for sanity's sake.

I'll still be active on Patreon to try and keep money flowing in and I do miss engaging with the community, so still send in your asks. I'll keep you updated on the next chapter update when I can think properly.

Love,

Zinnia

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Small Progress Report

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DEMO UPDATE AND PROGRESS REPORT:

Can you believe it’s already the end of January? As promised, the public demo of The Eternal Library has been updated to include all of chapter three (now over 65,000 words).

I’m nearly finished with the first draft of chapter four, which will go out to Patreon subscribers for early access once I’ve had a chance to do a read-through and polish it up a bit. I’m hoping to have that ready in a week or so.

I’ve been feeling the ebb and flow of energy this month. As we get into the deep winter up here in Canada, my body craves extra sleep. My days are full and my family is my priority, so some days I have time for writing and other days I do not. I have to give myself permission to rest, recharge, and get outside for walks with my dog. Down time helps provide the kind of inspiration and endurance it takes to write a project like this.

My guess is chapter four will be around 25k words (currently 23k). That would take the WIP to 90,000 words, and I feel like I’ve barely started telling the story. It’s possible this might be my longest IF novel yet. Their Majesties’ Pleasure is over 225k words and Ink and Intrigue is over 350k.

I started working on this project less than four months ago and the WIP is already nearing 90k words. I’m pretty impressed with that! As the story and variables get more complicated progress may be a bit slower, but I’ll keep marching steadily onward.

A week or so ago it occurred to me that I’m going to have to write two versions of chapter five. There will be a major branch split at the end of chapter four, offering one adventure or another before the storyline comes back together in chapter six. I’m both excited and apprehensive about how much work it will involve, but I’m quite sure it will be worth it!

Play the demo of The Eternal Library for free!

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The new Patreon demo update is out now! It adds over 20k words to the word count. The Patreon demo is now around 170k words long, which means that the total length of the game is over 400k(!) In this update, the celebration of Saturnalia starts with a drama-packed trip to the temple. Also, you can:

learn new things about your normal best friend

find a use for the infamous handkerchief

watch a certain grumpy RO have a minor meltdown

This update mainly features Marcus, Camilla, Tinsae, and Quinn.

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Adoriel's Tears Sneak peek

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You cheered? Sir? (I'm wasting so much good stuff on that dream) 😭

And yes, that is how I pictured Alexis cheering

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Rehosted minigames! 🫡✨

All on itch

All in Choicescript

Working saves (as far as I have seen)

Mobile friendly

Free

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Development Checklist, Released!

Hi guys! Wanted to let you all know that the Dev Checklist I promised to help with transparency and give players better understanding of what is happening behind KaE scenes, has released!

The whole thing is almost 2,900 words.

It details things currently being planned to be added, things that have been added, and things being considered to be added.

Like with the Progress Report, it will be Free to access.

Hope yall enjoy!!!

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Infamous is 2 years old!

So sorry this was late! Funnily enough, I was deep in the Infamous trenches that I didn't remember until now! Ha! Two years is a long time. I didn't think this would turn into anything when I posted the intro post.

Infamous was born from my desire to read a band IF after a weekend binging band-related stuff. You can imagine I was gutted that there was a hole of music/band related stories in this community. The (amazing!) band stories were either demo-less or dead. Once that happened a seed of an idea was planted in my head. One I couldn't shake off :,) and thus Infamous was born.

500k words, three chapters (lol) and nearly 10k of you later (woah) and here we are! I love Infamous with all my heart and I'm happy to see that it's touched some of you, no matter how big or small. The art, the fanfic, the questions and funny musings in my inbox; they give me a lot of energy and motivation. I'd probably have given up on this a long time ago if not for how kind and supportive this community is to me. You guys do not have to welcome me the way you do every day. Or be so gracious and patient with my ramblings and stupid ridiculous jokes and Savina teasing but you are. I am very lucky. Thank you.

I wish I had something prepared but as we know I am not a very organized person. Instead, as a way to celebrate, I've uploaded an extended Chapter 4 snippet. For those on Patreon who have already read it, I did extend this one—not by a lot but still. It's something new.

There will be typos, errors (if there are game-breaking errors, lmk!), skipped scenes, some paragraphs/convos not fleshed out, and empty choices because I am lazy and fill those out near the end. (I usually write a big picture skeleton first and then map out the scenes in deeper detail). Plus, I don't want to spoil too much haha

I hope you enjoy it. And thanks for loving Infamous! More to come!!!

Amy <3

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*coming home from work, sitting down at my computer*

Alright, time for some gay shit.

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Yeah, CC, show us the coffee. We all have one 😂

I know your secret CC, you like strawberrys not lemmons

Get out of my kitchen, Anon.

I do love strawberries, but I'll never admit it!

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Wowie, some people can dish it but can't take it, huh? Time for the block button, y'all are lame and no fun lmfaooo

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MC don't do it 😭😭 you're too emotionally unstable and vulnerable theyll kill you MC theyll kill you 😭😭

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Hey besties, been a hot minute. If anyone has an outstanding commission they purchased from me (I checked my notes and think I’ve contacted everyone and/or sent them all out but it’s entirely possible that I have not) please get in touch!l

I had a stint in the hospital a bit ago and to be perfectly honest I just started getting everything back under control in December. If you’d like a refund for the massive and horrendous delay, I will happily do that and still send the commission to be perfectly honest lmfao.