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Just getting started

Quick note from the author: I've just finished months of world-building and metahistory for The Carbon Coast, and have begun the first primitive drafts of the novel itself. Any visuals you see so far are the work of others that I have used temporarily to help visualize the novel's aesthetic(s) as they will be in the long term. I am getting the blog up and running now so I can reblog inspiring Solarpunk content and share progress on the exposition of my novel 'The Carbon Coast' as it takes shape over the months. See you in the next author's note. Click the #fromtheauthor tag see all updates and content about The Carbon Coast!

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Chapter One exists now!

Hey all! I'm happy to be able to share chapter one with you today. It comes in at just under 50k words in total, and I'm not exactly sure how much per playthrough, but there are definitely a lot of variable scenes to explore in this one.

In other news, I've finally got a forum thread for the game, which you can find here.

I'd love to know what you all think of it. In particular, notes about the characters, the amount/scope of choices, and how you think gender and pronoun choice was handled are all welcome. I mean, pretty much anything's welcome, but that's all very actionable stuff, compared to 'hey Kiku your writing sucks' which would be something I'm not sure I can do much about, heh. Typo- and codespotting also welcome, for those of you who do that kind of thing. :)

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Welcome to the Fields of Asphodel blog!

For those of you who know me via Diaspora, welcome. To the new folks, nice to meet you! I’m Jess, also known as Kiku, author of the WIP CoG game that got you here. Feel free to settle in or toss an ask my way; there’s not much up here yet. 

The game can be accessed here. The CoG forum is here. Thanks so much for your interest and support!

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Here’s a little bit of what I worked on today. As you may be able to spot, I have passed the 45k words mark on the chapter, and I have two scenes to go—one short and one fairly long. After that, though, it’s editing and trying to decide what the heck I’m doing with personality stats, heh. And then release, of course. 

I’m excited to share Chapter One with you all. I hope it’ll be as much fun to read as it has been to write. :)

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Sometimes I’m just... like this.

Hey everyone.

You may have noticed a veritable flood of activity from this blog in the last couple hours. Some of you may also remember how I mentioned I used to be one of those people who was uncomfortable with their inbox sitting at more than 0. You can probably infer what happened. 

I will try not to be quite as deluge-y in the future, but fair warning I will sometimes need to attend to all the asks, so I can’t promise there won’t ever be periods of pretty intense answering. 

Anyway, I hope it was fun rather than irritating, and thanks again for being here and being curious enough to ask me fun questions!

In other news, I am still steadily trudging towards the update. Chapter 1 is currently sitting at around 35k, and I expect it to be around 45k at release, which is still on track for the end of the month. At that time, I’ll probably be asking about additional platform you’d all be interested in seeing FoA on (e.g. I think some people do Discord servers? It seems like it might be fun but I don’t wanna make one if there’s not interest of course. ^_^;)

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I'm going to fight!

Opening up about the new changes in life. Read along to know what I've been up to.

Hello my dearies, I hope y’all are well!! I’m going to take this slow. Today, I’m going to write all about my thoughts and feelings. Hear me out. On 7th May 2021, I joined millions of others living with Type 2 Diabetes. I got diagnosed after quite a few blood tests and other tests. It took me so long to come to terms with this reality. I am diabetic. It’s my new truth. Loving food, I…

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