In the beginning it just was a project to try out new things. Had some burnout around the end of the year and decided to just play around throughout January and try stuff that I hadn't tried before, and potentially wouldn't be able to while doing commissions.
The VN was one of those. Now it wasn't entirely out of the blue mind you, I always wanted to expand my work beyond just paintings and involve the people experiencing my work a little more thoroughly. I just didn't quite know how. I started a few stories here and there, started some comics as well, but for one reason or another, it just didn't really feel right.
And the VN just was the project where it did feel right. Just the combination of art and writing works really nicely for me, it's a format that people quite enjoy engaging with as well.
So in that "test" period it just was enough fun to where I wanted to continue doing it.
As for my writing process, haven't actually done all too much before this VN, but at least for the VN the writing process is usually figuring out exactly what is needed for that particular month after a new version is released.
So, just checking again with my overarching idea for the story, where we're at, what characters might need some love, what are the next goal that particular part of the story needs to guide us to etc.
Figuring out the foundation for the month. And then it's fairly free-flowing, thinking of how the characters would interact in whatever situation it is, how to (ideally) make certain aspects interesting or intruiging, think of how I want to push certain characters forward and by how much and just feeling it out. Sometimes that's more rocky where each sentence is like goop, and other times you just have one of those days where everything slots in really smoothly.