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Plague Diary

A 2017-post collection

Sunday, Archive Reads, Motivation and Lack Thereof

I've been awake since 1AM but I haven't made anything unless I was icing my ankle.

On the plus side, I have been working on a potential Halloween story. Powers know what I'm going to do for a cover, but that's a problem for if it gets finished. For all I know, it might be out next year. September is dwindling away, after all.

I am reminding myself to be kind to me. If it gets done, it gets done. If not, I'll get it done.

Speaking of, the countdown of chapters to do is down to thirty-seven. I can't always manage two days per chapter, and that's okay. Sometimes, I wind up writing a huge chunk at fuckoff AM on a weekend, and that is also okay. I should not feel guilty about my output nor of "abusing" my self-appointed days off.

When ADT is done, I'll gift myself time of Not Worrying About It. I may even pitch it to people. Just book one. If they don't want book one, they won't be interested in the other five.

...I still have to pitch Adapting at one more agency. Getting brave enough to do it is my battle.

There's the entry for next week's Archive challenge, today's tale, and the horror to work on. And for fun - I have some fanfics simmering on my personal backburner.

But I want to lie around and blob. I think my hug tanks are empty. Onwards with whatever I'm doing.

Saturday, Slow Movement

I'm in the midst of recording chapters for Adorable. I've allegedly begun work on the next entry for the Archive. I have yet to begin working on my daily offerings. And I have at least one cat getting literally in my face as I attempt to work.

And I have to break every two hours to cool my ankle off.

At least I get to noodle around with fiction other than the daily offerings while that's going on.

It's slow, but I'm

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Friday, Slow Going

I have attempted knee stretchies. Or at least knee exercises. I'm sure some of them are going to work. Three to six months, the info says.

Icing my stupid ankle now takes at least half an hour because I have a third axis to chill it down. On the plus side, half an hour to work on various alternate projects.

On the minus side, more opportunity to space out and not do the regular offerings. I'm emotionally lagging on motivation, and pretty

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Wednesday, Rants and Videos and Other Stuff

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

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Tuesday, Patreon PLNs

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

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Monday, Embuggerances and Further PLNs

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

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Sunday, Plots and PLNs

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

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Friday, Strategising PLNs

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

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Thursday, Shopping, Recording and PLNs

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

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Tuesday, Patreon, Videos, and Shenanigans

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

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Monday, Dentist and Maybe Other Things

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

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Sunday, Plots and PLNs

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/

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