Project Sari
Title: Sari (placeholder)
Format: Novel
Date Started: January 26, 2026
Status: Work in Progress
Word count: WIP
Draft number: 1
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Pitch: (Draft)
Updates
Project Sari
Devlog
5-4-2026
Project Sari is a new novel I’m currently working on. I’ve started drafting it January 26 this year. It’s another fantasy novel, inspired by the Spanish colonized Philippines. If you know, you know.
Why only now?
Because my laptop died some time last year. The graphics card finally gave in after four years of owning it, using Photoshop on it and editing videos and all other stuff. I have a mini PC now as a workhorse, and don’t have to wrestle with the janky controls of editing a website in a tablet. Thus, the very late update.
Why are you writing a devlog?
Because AI. I mean, I’ve been writing logs for my novels for some time now. I’ve done so in my first two novels. Nothing changed really. I’m still writing my novels long hand, only that this time, I’ve included my outline and my entire thinking process using pen and paper, which I will upload once the novel is in the querying stage. Yes, I’m still not giving up on getting traditionally published, but I’d like to self publish and would like to make it my priority.
Current updates.
I’m now, I think, three fourths of the way through. But this is the first draft, so I know that can still change. I’m still in the building stage and far away from the revelation stage. But still, I’m getting the momentum going. I don’t know how many words I’m in now, since I’m writing this long hand. But I already have a lot of filled out makeshift notebooks (already at book 10 and each book is 20 pages each). I’m on to the second formal mission for my FMC, but this is where she will meet the MMC. But a lot will still happen in between now until them finally joining force to defeat my antagonist.
5-5-2026
Today I realized the importance of adding chapter indexes and a quick summary in my notebooks because I tried looking for how many armor my FMC made and for whom and what’s its properties were and I spent a good 1 hour looking for the information I needed. So to indexing it is!
5-6-2026
Put in some words. Nothing new.
5-7-2026
It’s hard to focus on writing when it’s 42 degrees Celsius, extremely humid, and I feel like I’m having a fever who kept on peeing because the only way to stay cool was to keep on drinking cold water. Sucks.
5-8-2026
I really find it easier to find building up the story when it comes to my FMC side, than with my MMC side. Maybe because my MMC was working for the antagonist side? That might be my bias. Today I realize that I might be working on an enemies to lover trope but not really. Maybe from two warring factions but not really enemies to lovers.
5-11-2026
Man, action really scenes just really flew by me when I’m writing it. Is it a bad thing or a good thing? We’ll know during revision phase.
5-12-2026
Outline day today. I finished my more detailed outline yesterday and I am once again stumped. I mean, I just need to flesh out my more vague outline into a beat that I can easily follow. And thus, outline day.
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