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Tuesday, Pushing Myself a Bit

We can't afford to laundromat, so washing must be done in-house. And if I want the washing I gathered up months ago to get done, I'm the only one who can do it. Huzzah?

Gotta count my cheevs because otherwise I will wind up crying.

One wash done. Lovelies offski to parts unknown, mission also unknown. Breakfast dealt with. Coffee et cetera taken care of. Emails done. [Not thinking about the comics cataloguing, the book, whether or not I've got anything for Patreon, or the hours in the day I have to accomplish anything]

All ready to write for the day and, perhaps, get some art done for the cover. There's a limited amount of time before that's due out the door so I must focus on getting that accomplished.

My ankle hates me, today. Wrapping it up and walking around with a cane is temporarily helping. I shall ask my physio about full treatment for the thing and enlist my lovelies in helping. I am sick and tired of this stupid fucking ankle.

But those are long term plans. The sooner I finish a tale, the more time I have for arting the cover.

Onwards.

Monday, Ill Weather Due

Be warned: I am planning a haircut. Why this is relevant is because I have inherited my father's curse. Every time he cut his hair, the local area would get a shitload of terribad weather phenomena.

So yeah. I am going to get some tasks done and then get Adorable to re-cut my undercut so I'm prepared for the rising temperatures.

Then I get on with today's story and refining a new chapter in ADT.

Huzzah.

Onwards to my cunning PLN.

Update:

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Sunday, No Stream, Other Shenanigans

Izzy, prime host and main draw for the Promptcast, is down with an illness. Other hosts are unavailable, so there's no stream this week. Boo and hiss, but also well-wishes for Izzy's speedy recovery.

I am up since 1AM today, because early nap yesterday because of Emotional Wringer the day before.

I knew my sleep schedule would be fucked. I'm using it to my advantage when and how I can.

For instance - I have already written the thing for this upcoming

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Saturday, Attack of the Morbs

Not feeling so great this morning. Details are... complicated. And a lot of it feels like dirty laundry rn.

I dunno what to do.

I know what I have to do so I'm doing that.

  • Daily tale
  • Moderating the Promptcast's interview thing
  • If I can summon the spoons, working on the cover art
  • OR working on a chapter for the improved ADT

I don't think I'll have the spoons.

Looks like my sleep schedule is about to be fucked up.

hooray

not

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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

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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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