the two socialites + Helena
(there are in fact way too many potential favorite triads in Her Majesty The Prince for me to list them all but this one I can say for sure haha)
turning people into catgirls
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also:
this is a question that's been in the back of my mind for a while! many are still up in the air but here are some for-sure fursonas:
- Le Loup is 100% a wolf, it'd be hard for me to wolfcode that character more
- Dusty is a shark (teef! teef! teef!)
- Alphonse is an octopus
- Brie is a large Briard and a very good boy (not a fursona, I just think he's neat)
For HMTP questions - has the process of writing a story that you're releasing chapter-by-chapter been substantially different from how you worked on your light novels?
it's been very different!
there's a way to split writers into two groups that I've heard a lot of times: pantsers and gardeners (based on whether you write from start to finish by the seat of your pants or you grow your entire story like a well-tended garden) and I am definitely a gardener. so writing this way, where I can't go back and change the past, has been a really wild experience!
...hence the flashback chapters
it took me a little while to figure out this pattern, but I'm sticking to it now (I even went so far as to go back and add a couple chapters in the early part of the first act to make it all work) - even-numbered chapters are chronological timeline chapters, odd-numbered chapters are flashbacks. that way I get to have my cake and eat it too! I get to be a gardener while also writing chapter by chapter. I get to do my favorite thing in all of writing: make readers go "WAIT WHAT?!" as often as possible, in as positive a way as I can. I love ah-ha moments where everything clicks into place so much as a reader that I want folks who read my stories to have them too ^^
(and there are folks who have begun figuring out some of the ah-ha moments ahead of time as well, which has been really exciting to see from the sidelines as I write!)
I'm not saying I'll write every book of mine this way from now on, but I'm now seriously considering it for way more stories than I ever did in the past. this chapter-by-chapter thing can be pretty fun!!
I saw the acronym HMTP and immediately took psychic damage by misreading it as HPMR (Hrry Ptter and the Methods of Rationality).
For an actual question: Is there anywhere to read the book other than Patreon? Their website is terrible to navigate and super slow for me, so another option would be great.
oh that’s a good point! I usually put my books on itch when they’re ready, but they’ve never been this long. maybe I could put the completed acts up on there? hmm…