Happy September y’all! I’m not dead, so that’s a good thing, right? Also how TF are we in FRIGGIN SEPTEMBER ALREADY WHERE TF DID AUGUST GO!? Yike.

This summer has been, in a word, hectic. But in a good way. I’ve gone to two renaissance faires (legit some of the most fun things ever!) started a new job slinging coffee in addition to wine, and finished draft three of my WIP novel!!! AYEE! And with that development, that means I’m on the cusp of querying!

So what is this post for? Why am I here instead of doing my side gig and flinging queries at people? Welst, lemme tell you. Muse has taken it into her head to get down into the nitty gritty of a side project I’ve had on the back burners for months now, because apparently she wants to. (Also thank you, Brya, for encouraging me to do the two sentences a day for the month. It was because of that challenge that I overcame the tiny little knoll I was struggling to get over in regards to restarting the thing).

Now, what the heck is this side project? I’ve mentioned it in a few previous posts, but it’s time for some elaboration. Cursed Prince was my final project during my senior year of college (2021). It was a second-person POV click-through narrative game thingy developed on Twine, and I about died during the creation, conception, an execution of the story.

And yet I utterly fell in love with the characters and story and the world building. It helped that it’s set in the world of one of my other WIP series, just in a different age, and as such it was as much an exercise in general world building as it was a senior project. Things just clicked, and it became one of my favorite mid-length stories I’ve developed.

What’s it about though, you ask? Ha. That’s for you to find out through reading! My intent with this little project is to develop CP as a serial story. Dish and Spoon was sort of a trial run, but CP is going to be significantly longer. Hell, the printed version of the original is around 50 pages, which is essentially my skeledraft of this reiteration.

I don’t know how many installments there’ll be, so who knows? Maybe I’ll even be generous and share the multiple endings I wrote!

But enough of this chaotic, rambling update post. It’s time to get to the good stuff.

Until next time!

KU