One of my favorite parts about having extended stay at home vacations is that I usually end up diving back into The Nays and getting in the zone for writing and developing a bunch of new story moments. During Christmas break, I spent a lot of time re-reading Eventures and then rewriting some. I also worked on writing scripts for the Eventure Trailers that I've been gradually working through.
So for this CUPdate, I'm going to go through the progress I've made on The Nays so far this year!
I ended 2025 by starting rewriting the AV World Eventure. I didn't finish it in one night though, so I ended up finishing the rewrite in 2026 a couple of days later. It technically counts for my 1 solo Eventure of the year written, so that's one goal checked off already! I imagine I'll write more later though.
I also rewrote a lot of The Gek's Nephew Eventure. I usually write all of my Eventures in mIRC, but this one and finishing up AV World actually happened in Google Docs, which was a really weird transition for me. I've always felt a lot more comfortable writing in mIRC because of the commands I have set up, but for anything that involves keeping a lot of existing text and just making edits, I do think the Google Doc method works better. So I'm trying to do whatever feels right for the situation.
While reading through a bunch of Eventures, I also was writing the Eventure Trailer scripts to act as a recap for them. I had a goal in previous years to write more of these and never got far, but I wrote 10+ of them in a week, so I'd say that was pretty good progress. I just got into the habit of writing them after I did a copy edit pass and read through the Eventures. I added a new section at the top of my Google Docs for this so I can quickly read those recaps before starting when I dive back in.
And to start off 2026, I also drew my yearly Cipo drawing. I wanted to find an Eventure that he was in and just draw one of my Eventure drawings for a future Twine, so I found a scene in the Death Eventure to draw that's towards the start of that one.
I also started working on The Nays timeline again. I had an old version but there were so many changes to the story that it was starting to be outdated. So I made it look a little nicer and I've been working from the beginning of the story as I finalize the beginning Eventures to further solidify those dates. I added these dates to the Eventure pages on the Weebly too, so it's easier to see at a glance how much time passes in Eventures.
I've always wanted to make a wiki for The Nays. Every time I brainstorm how to do it or try something, it just doesn't feel right though. I've tried Toyhouse, Notion, Google Docs, Weebly, etc. But I'll spend about a day or few days on it, and then forget about it, or just not maintain it. Though I realized that whenever I want to remember something about a character quickly (whether that's their design, personality, etc.), I always go straight to my Deviant Art account. I've drawn ~600+ profile drawings from my old Nay-A-Day project and submitted it there, so it's really been my go-to place to look for information while I'm writing.
So with that, I decided to expand upon that. Because I'm already looking there and use it as a resource, why not just make that resource better and turn it into my wiki? So one of the few new features I actually like about Deviant Art's new design is that you can upload multiple deviations and add some basic formatting like bullet points and headers without code. This means I can have multiple reference images technically nested within the same deviation so I don't have to go looking for them elsewhere. I could change the main image to the one I want to show while still preserving the original nested within it too. So I started to add profiles to the main characters, adding sections and links whenever necessary. I took a lot of this information from my Weebly pages, but figured this will be an area I'll probably maintain more frequently.
Then I sketched a few storyboards of the AV World Eventure because the story moments were still pretty fresh in my mind. Sometimes it's hard going back to draw Eventure scenes after I wrote it years ago because I have to reimagine some of the scenes and remember where I left off. I tried to stay super rough with these so I could go quicker and just get my rough ideas out there.
So that's how I started the year! While it's not a lot of visual progress, I did do a lot of writing and organizing this time. I'm happy that I finally revisited and spent some time working on The Nays, because I really needed this and missed it a lot.
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