I took a long break from this game, but I'm back! ( ´ ▽ ` )/
This week I worked on completing the story outline. This is ~30 pages of bullet points for every scene in the game. I prefer to write things out as a list instead of a flowchart because it's easier for me to understand. I really tried this time to make the routes less linear. Early on, there are huge deviations, a few pinch points, and routes branch off at different points in the story. It's sorta like a tree shape!
The plot has been reworked multiple times, but I'm still not sure about it. I started writing this story almost 4 years ago, so it was very rough around the edges. I fixed it up a bit when I first outlined it for the VN at the beginning of the year, but coming back to it let me see all the flaws. I was too attached to the original version, so I had to cut a lot of things to improve the story.