Home Sweet Home is under development!

Hey everyone!

This week, my second-oldest daughter and I started working on Home Sweet Home, my contribution to a 4-game collection (The Welcome Wagon) that Nate, Tim, Kanishk, and I are working on together.

This project has been in the works since January of this year. My initial draft was completed forever ago, but when I started formatting it, I realized I have quite a few gaps to fill. I had ideas about how to make it even better, so I started making major changes that now have to be reflected in the rules.

Yesterday, I began drafting the materials list, but once I finished that, I continued on and began drafting a Stitch Glossary (for those who plan to embroider their game). I don't think I'll go so far as to create video tutorials of my own, but I will definitely create a list of links that players can reference.

It's just a start, but I'm loving how it looks.

Today, I published the project page for Home Sweet Home on my website, which is the first step to making anything I do official. I make these pages entirely for my own benefit, using them as my personal to-do list. Once the projects are done, the pages become a permanent part of my portfolio. For example, here's the page for Plane. Here's the one for Darkness Blooms.

I'm hoping this will be a short project. Ideally, the Kickstarter will launch in October with fulfillment in December (yes, of this year, lol). I'm going to try very hard to rein in my impulse to blow the project up into an 18-month, 150-page endeavor. (I just repeat to myself "I will not design a card deck. I will not design a card deck. I will not design a card deck.")

I want very much for Home Sweet Home to top out at 50 pages. On A5 paper, that's not many words at all!

Of course, I'm juggling more projects than I'd like. In an effort to keep my stress level reasonable, I'm not allowing myself to work more than 10 hours each week on the projects I strongly dislike: the second edition of The Beauty Industry Survival Guide and "Silence is Sabotage," a presentation I'll be delivering at pro-beauty trade shows next year.

Honestly, I want them to be done so badly because thinking about them makes my blood boil a tiny bit, but it's probably best for my anxious, trembling brain if I take it slow. Once they're finished, I'll be done with projects I hate for the foreseeable future, so at least there's that.

Proofs are on the way!

In other news, Ingram has shipped the paperback proof for Plane. The hardcover is still queued for printing, but it should be shipped within the next few days also. As soon as they arrive, expect pictures and a full rundown of my print proofing process.

See you next week!