Imitatia Author & Dev Blog 2

A few things I've been working on. A few things I've been thinking about. An update on where everything stands.

The Novels

Audrey is going well, I think. It's the project that surprises me most, in the sense that I often sit down not knowing where it's going and it goes somewhere. That's a good feeling. The response has been beyond anything I expected - the view count keeps climbing and the comments (when I get them) tend to be from people who feel something about it, which is all you can really ask.

Under The Cherry Blossoms is its own thing. It's already published, which is a strange thing to sit with. It's done. It's out. People are reading it and I can't change it anymore, which is uncomfortable in the specific way that finished things are uncomfortable. I'm proud of it. I think it does what it set out to do. That's the most honest assessment I can give.

The Infection is darker than the other two and I'm still figuring out what it wants to be. It's the most ambitious in structure and the most uncertain in execution. I think that uncertainty is productive. We'll see.

The Games

Point and Touch Thief Game is still available. It's small. It was always going to be small. I made it to learn things and then it became a thing people actually played, which is a small kind of miracle.

Prison Sandbox is ongoing. I don't talk about it much because games take longer than I expect and I've learned not to announce timelines I can't guarantee. What I'll say is: it's getting better every week and I'm more interested in it now than I was when I started.

The Blog

The philosophical posts are the ones that feel most like talking out loud. I write them when I'm in the middle of something I don't fully understand yet. The process of writing it is partly the process of figuring out what I actually think.

That's what Imitatia Dreams is, I suppose. A space where I'm allowed to not know yet.

General Update

I've been quieter than usual. This is partly real life, partly the particular heaviness of certain seasons, partly the way creative work sometimes goes underground before it surfaces.

I'm not going anywhere. The site is growing in ways I didn't plan for and find genuinely moving. The fact that people read here - that this small space I built because I needed somewhere to put things has become somewhere other people come - is not something I take for granted.

Thank you for being here. That's not a throwaway phrase. I actually mean it.

More soon.