I have Physio in a few minutes. Then a shopping trip.
When I get back, I'll get on with the palaver of all the things that must be done.
Including a LOT of reading because I have another five-chapter chunk to read for Adorable. Yay.
I need to bother them about file sharing again.
Updates as events warrant.
It's half-past nine and so far I'm feeling like...
[Shown here: A simplified humanoid figure oscillating rapidly left and right. It is captioned, "I have done nothing productive all day"]
Which is a lie. I have finished up half a chapter of ADT, I've been working on some fun fiction this morning. And I'm reaching for motivation to start submitting books at people again, but it's the kind of work that makes my bones feel heavy and uuuuuurgh.
If I had an
Read more »I have a story to read for video making, a story to write for my lovely audience, a half a chapter to work on while I ice my ankle, and so on.
This morning was a little on the rough side. Awake and productive at 1AM, unable to rest but sleepy by 3AM. Awake at some point after my morning alarm went off.
I'm determined to look after myself. Which can be a little bit of an emotional drag when I'd much
Read more »I have a method(tm) for dealing with the ankle interruptions. I'm calling it "drips and drops" and it also deals with the fanficcery I've got running. When I go to ice my ankle, I put drips and drops of thoughts into each WIP I have on the burner.
It worked to get me half a chapter, last Friday. It worked to get several chunks into various fanfics. I have confidence that it can work today.
I've posted the video on Peertube
Read more »So I looked up my downloaded docs to see if I had other ideas for All Hallows' Read and -nope- there goes that thin hope. So I'll farm a few ideas in Ellipsus or, if it works for me, Scrivener.
So no Halloween story this year. Maybe next year. I don't know. All I need is something scary to write about, and there is plenty to be scared of in this cruel world.
The trick is turning it against the perpetrators, Twilight
Read more »Once again, stuck at home with the ankle. My main goal is to get the daily tale done so I can have extra hours in the ball pit to play with things.
Including the fanfics in progress.
Which is not going great for me because I am zoning out all over the place.
Wish me luck. I'm locking in.
Read more »I've been going on drips and dribbles with ADT these last two days. Mostly because the lure of three firkin fanfics are calling me with their siren song. I'm aiming to use my ankle icing time to add a few sentences into one work or another. I successfully added a sentence to three fics so this break will focus on the book first, and then drift off to wherever the muse drags me.
So far, so good.
The bread's done, the story's
Read more »Well I got input on the story I was aiming to have out for All Hallows' Read, and... it should stay in the drawer. Nobody else is seeing it.
End of discussion.
I'll talk with my lovelies about the premise, and if that gets greenlit, I'll approach it from another angle.
So... no horror story this year. Maybe next one.
It is what it is. Moving on.
I have a shopping journey, bread in the incubator, and a bad ankle. I forgot
Read more »I've just had Shrink Time(tm), I have bread incubating, I have starter incubating, I'm somehow on TWO chats. One text, one voice. I am going to do art at some point.
I have too much to do, a video to post, and all the other things.
Which I shall be doing piecemeal because everything is looking for my attention at once. Yay.
Read more »So... I may have kind of sort of sidled into writing three fanfics whilst also attempting to finish off the SIXTH GORRAM BOOK of my "brief little thing".
So it's time to bust out this little chestnut:
[Shown here: An etching of an anticommunist propaganda piece featuring a skeleton in a "communist" sash. It is carrying a large scroll that has been altered to say "Lord help me, I'm back on my bullshit"]
On one hand - more to share with my
Read more »Woke up at 3AM and did half a chapter. Hooray. Then commenced to prepare my good self for a trip to the dentist's later on. Yay. Fully aware that I have not regularly brushed my teeth since an incident with my hardy perennial depression. Whoops.
I have finished a story for All Hallow's Read. Huzzah. I need it sensitivity read before I leap ahead and prepare for book launch. It might be too nightmare fuel for my trans readers.
It's also highly
Read more »So Zeitgeist doesn't want my flavour this time. I can throw Adapting at a bunch of other people. I just need to spend some time finding which ones are open to the concept of taking it. At this point in the game, I'm seriously considering trying to publish in itch.io despite the issues I've been reading about. Which also means finding the scratch to commission some cover art or making my own for the dang thing.
I also have to find/
Read more »I did have PLNs to go nowhere and do nothing BUT... we need eggs and there's a postal parcel mystery that I need to go to AusPost Norflakes to unriddle. So I have to go place and do thing to get stuff.
BLEH.
The lit agency with the shortest turnaround has decided to not want fantasy or scifi this fortnight. Three guesses which are my favourite fucking genres?
Yeah. I'm bitter this morrow.
Last night was very nice, and I discovered the
Read more »Adorable's having a bifdy! We're taking the whole fam out for some all-you-can-eat goodness, tonight. As a special bifdy treat, I shall not be asking how she's going with the audio recordings of A Devil's Tale.
Best to not be a pest on someone's birthday.
I am now the proud owner of a tempered glass monitor riser, which I am using as a cat-proof shield over my keyboard. It's a teeny bit short to type while it's over my keys, so I've
Read more »I have to keep an eye on the time so I can take off with adequate minutes to make it to my physio. And from there on a brief expedition for stuff and things.
Very few stuff and things, thank grop. Things I can easily afford even if payday is a smidge tardy. Yay. With even space for a little treato for the trip home.
Huzzah.
I shall be attempting to write today's tale in the time I have left.
Wish me
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