CUPdate 24: Eventure Statistics

Similar to last time, there's not a lot to show, but I have been reading a lot more Eventures recently, which has been making me feel more creative and in the mood for working on things relating to The Nays. I've still been super busy and burnt out from work so it's been hard to find a lot of time to work on things, but I'm slowly trying to stay motivated more often on weekday nights. Reading Eventures has been able to keep me relaxed and take my mind off of things at least.

To start off though, since the month of April ended, I started this CUPdate by finishing up my April digital sketchbook page. I ended up having a lot of days that I just sketched in my traditional sketchbook for this month, but I did spend a little bit more time at the end coloring some of the drawings I spent more time on. I was re-reading a lot of Eventures throughout that month, so I would sometimes sketch characters or scenes after reading or writing them.

Then my brother and I finally had a chance to meet for our delayed April Nay Day. And during that time, though it was a shorter time, we finished writing the Piko's Concert Eventure that we started a couple of months ago at this point. We woke up at 9am to write it on a Sunday, so I will admit I was kinda tired and not feeling the most creative, but I'm glad we finally found a time when we were both free to do it.

Since I've been reading a lot of Eventures lately, I decided to put together some stats in Notion so I could see how many words (and pages) we've written. So far with what I imported, we're at about 2,600 pages total and 1,090,000 words. I remember getting to around a million in the past, so looks like that's pretty accurate still.

And then some other fun facts relating to length from what I've read through so far (still have some that need copy edits which might slightly change things): The longest Eventure is Preliminary World Leader Exam at about 62,000 words, followed by Time Fabric Island (40,000), Truth of Yaguzi (31,000), Timer Afterwards (29,000), Tag World Wing School (28,000), World Leader Exam (25,000), War Over PS World (24,000), PS Amusement Park (24,000), Aiml World (21,000), Apple Cider (19,000), and Searching for Home (19,000). These ones are definitely some of the more memorable ones that were more in depth (with the exception of Tag World Wing School that just ended up probably being way longer than it needed to and was probably kinda filler that we could cut down on lol). I was surprised to see that Garlint was so high up there though since that's not usually one of the ones I think about when I think of the longer ones. Some of those Eventures in the top 10 aren't finished or need to be rewritten too, so those numbers are just going up.

So again, I've been super burnt out and it's been hard to work on much of anything. With summer coming up, I'm sure it'll be continuing to be this way for awhile too, but I am taking more time for myself at night to just read and doodle without any strict projects or anything. I hope I'll get back to projects like my Compass Nays game or storyboards for The Nays Twines again, but for now I'm just trying to make it through each day. No promises for next time, but hopefully I'll have at least another Eventure written since I know we're gonna have a lot more time before that meeting!