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Friday, Shrink Day and Other Shenanigans

I am talking to my shrink today. I hope to occupy myself with cover art progress during the day. Focus Friend save me. Save me Focus Friend.

...I am way too distractible with bright shiny objects.

Focus Friend is an app that helps me stop playing silly damn games on my phone all fucking day, FYI.

I shall be asking my conspirators online about chapter order. I think changing it soon so that Kosh's chapters are near Delias might be helpful. Pacing order is definitely going to be a thing with this rewrite. Where and when to flip shit around.

Right now the perspective order goes: Kosh, Crew, Delia, Flashback.

I'm thinking of going either: Kosh, Delia... or: Delia, Kosh... then Crew, Flashback.

That might happen after/for her first perspective chapter, which is also the introduction to Spitebane. Again, something to discuss so my audience knows these narratives are fucking tangled together.

Like they will know for Kosh and the crew. They might pick up the clues for the others. Finding out when all the pieces come together for various readers is part of my query process.

...when my fuckin beta readers get fuckin BACK to me [grouse grouse grumble grumble]

ANYway... I have a flash fiction to write, a Weird Writer Wednesday to draft, and a chapter to contemplate.

Away, away to rustling up some quality bullshit.

Thursday, Rewriting Shenanigans and Handling Things

I just realised that I've been powering through the rewrites without inserting chapters for Kosh's crew. That's in the process of being fixed.

So today will be devoted to writing a new chapter. After I get today's tale done.

The Promptcast thing is fixed, finished, and off into the aether, so that's one less thing to worry about. Almost got a first page into the new 'crew' chapter done. Huzzah.

I shall get on with today's tale, then finish off the chapter

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Tuesday, Physio, Write-ins, and Chapters, Oh My!

Done the physio, attended the write-in [nobody else was there], and am now aiming myself at technically-three things:

  • One Daily Tale
  • Two Revised Chapters

I've already finished the Promptcast, but editing has to happen tomorrow. Julie's gone to bed.

My PLN to work on one such chapter at the Physio was foiled by No Battery. Darnit. I'll have to do that later in the day.

But first, the daily tale.

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Tuesday, PLNs Fruiting

Miss Chaos has income. Hooray. We shall begin teaching her to manage her own finances for her own things. She doesn't like the idea but we do need to set her up so she can go forward without us.

Next to corral and badger to have income is Mayhem. We have to catch him first. Big issue.

We have spoken to Chaos about using her own money to support her own life. Learning sooner is better et cetera.

My PLN, beside the

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Monday, Backup Reads and Time Management

I got a lot of the kudzu in the book cover done. I might have to do some more abstract leaf dots for the distant kudzu climbing up the flatiron building. They need to be tiny-tiny after all. I might also make use of the blur brush.

Time will tell.

Nevertheless, the doodling-while-listening tactic worked. I have a whole lot of leafy shapes all over my canvas. Yay.

I'll have to do that in other moments where I'm technically prevented from

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Sunday, Stream Stuff Sequentius

The Promptcast only has five entries this week [so far] so it's promising to be a short one. There's a possibility that I can 'clear' another chapter rewrite for the new and improved version of A Devil's Tale.

That's version number three for those keeping track.

Version One: Pure fanfic. Getting closure for a game that just... evaporated because Kosh wanted a happy ending.

Version Two: Five GoogDocs and four years.

Hopefully, version three is the one that makes it to the

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Saturday, Some Semblance of a PLN

Today, I aim to write something for Weird Writer Wednesday, likely about nibbling problems to death. I shall also be working on the daily tale. THEN I shall do something towards my cover art.

I can do this. It's beating the inertia that's the issue.

Maybe that's what I'll write about for this coming Wednesday.

But first, I must get on with the stuff that earns money. Even if it is a small amount of money.

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Friday, Things To Do

My agenda, such that it is:

  • Daily Tale
  • Cataloguing more comics
  • Working on the rewrite of ADT

Maybe, I can catch up on my To-Be-Watched pile, but that's for winding down in the evening.

I should focus on getting that done, but there's anxiety and people needing to talk and all kinds of distractions hither and yon.

I need to stop playing with the Endorphin Machine [my phone] and get on with getting on. I know I can.

Let's go.

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Thursday, Shopping, Anxiety, and New Draft

I have commenced rewriting Book One of A Devil's Tale, but I hope the whole process takes less time than four dingdang years.

Some of it is a little touch-up.
Some of it is a complete rewrite.
Some of it is new material.

My characters need space to be three-dimensional. Especially Kosh's crew. So, as I have been joking with the read-through group - we're going to need a bigger book.

It's still going to be a sextology, because I can't think

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Wednesday, Teh PLN Worked!

I posted my Weird Writer Wednesday first thing! Hooray. Now I can focus on the next thing to write for next week. I've done my Promptcast thing and sent it off! Huzzah. More free time for the fucking multitude of other side projects I have going on.

Whee fun.

October is looming and my cover art is only halfway done. If I actually make time for it, I can get it done. I just can't be too lazy or it looks like

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Tuesday, Milestone and a Dove

Yesterday, Adorable rescued a fledgeling dove from the Magpie Mafia. We think it's a Spotted Dove, but identification is a little difficult. Beloved and Adorable are plotting to take it to the vet's for a patch-up and advice on how to go forward.

Or for a transfer of custody.

Spotted Doves are not pests, they're one of the species that kind of blew in from the island chain to the north. So hopes are good that this little creature can have a

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Monday, Overprepared?

Apparently, yesterday was the hottest September day on record, here in Sunny Queensland. It was PERISHING hot in the nerd cave. And since I don't want to do that again, my PLN runs thusly:

  • Wake up early [today was 1AM]
  • Do my work during the cool hours
  • Sleep off the hot hours
  • Lather, rinse, repeat
  • Until we get some variant of atmosphere control in the nerd cave.

I foresee an absolutely miserable summer for myself, but at least I shall be able

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Sunday, Stream Stuff and Other Nonsense

This week is the last week that my writing is paying the bills. Beloved and the others have that week to figure out finances. There shall be much ado about looking for work amongst the housemates. Or otherwise helping to pay the bills.

We will figure it out and keep the roof over our heads.

There may be a need for austerity for a bit, but we will manage. We have managed before. We can manage again.

Some of that management has

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Saturday, Promptcast, Patreon, and Organisation

I got the Patreon stuff posted! I wrote a thing for Weird Writer Wednesday! And that's why I'm writing this [and my subsequent story] in the afternoon.

I pln to get that tale done, eat some ice cream, and have time for entertainment. Read: Minecraft or BG3.

I'm still figuring out the new routine, but I will get there. Eventually.

Speaking of, I'd best get there with some fresh free fiction for y'all.

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Friday, Teh PLN

[To the tune of We're Off To See The Wizard] I'm off to see the vampires, to go get some samples of blood..

Fed self and felines, had breakfast. Today, after my lovelies get back from whatnot and I finish my breakfast... I am thence off.

When I come back, I am icing my stupid fucking ankle whilst working on my silly darn book cover for the thing I wrote LAST YEAR.

It's a bit procrastinate-y around here. NOT helped by the

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