I was looking through some of the old devlogs I made from the beginning. It's so cute how I keep hoping I'd get finished the demo for Rainbow Heartbeats within a month or two almost every single time, and then at one point, I understood that it wasn't gonna happen like that.

Hopefully my expectations will be more managed going forward. Or rather, I hope I'll promise less that it "should ALL be done by x" and more that "I'll have THIS PART of it completed by x" hahaha.

Onwards~!

1. We begin March with finishing character story lines. This process feels a bit never ending, so I can't wait for the part where I start the drawing and advance my inevitable battle with carpal tunnel hahaha.
2. I hurt my foot! Not sure how, but walking on it was a nightmare for about a week. Made concentrating particularly difficult.
3. About mid month I had a temporary shift change at my work. The different work hours gave me much more time in the morning to focus on developing, which is how I prefer it to be honest. I wish the position was available all the time but alas, I'm cursed to only cover the position for about a week.
4. These last few storylines DRAGGED ON. Writing 23 storylines in a row is EXHAUSTING mentally. I'm pretty sure my brain is going to need a vacation for its vacation when I'm done. We're on March 16 and I have 6 left to do because I'm just so tuckered out from all the constant plot lines lol. I've been trying to find mood-setting playlists on YouTube to try and keep me going but easier said than done!
5. AHHH. FINALLY. I managed to get the last 4 storylines done in 2 days, and can officially say that as of March 21, I've completed the storylines for all 29 characters and have confirmed that including talking points, flirtation points, asking characters to date, and giving gifts, the official script is over 119K words! 
6. But there's no rest for the wicked. I'll be spending the rest of today rearranging the Trello board (which can be found HERE) and finalizing character poses, because I don't like all of them when I originally sketched them over 1 year ago. There's also been a ton of changes since I last scoped the project, including the addition of several new side characters that need to be designed, new background art that needs to be designed, and even some characters not being included at all (for instance one character, Nolan, was supposed to have a sister, but when I wrote his story line, I forgot about her. and another character was supposed to have a cat, and I forgot about him completely.)
7. I started work on finalizing character designs shortly after I wrapped up story lines. I wanted to get a main outfit and design for each character done so I could capitalize on a meme before it goes stale, so here's hoping!
8. The remainder of March will be filled with finalizing character designs and making my meme video, and once that's done I'll be moving onto the 55 pieces of location art that still need to be done. 
   
   This is me right about now! All this art has left me as a shell of my former self hahaha.