RFA On Friday

Can't really type or use a mouse much, so quick one.  Neck/shoulder/hand has been really bad.  Like, can't hold a pen for longer than a minute bad.  My life has been lying in bed watching TV and reading, trying to ignore that everything hurts.  No progress on the Vicky novel this month, needless to say.

Luckily, the spine docs had already scheduled the RFA month before last and it will start on Friday.  As usual, two step process, two weeks apart, need about 10 days to recover after each step.  So I'll update all of you late April, hopefully feeling much better.

Really happened at a bad time.  Vicky novel's innards are all over the operating table with that rewrite finally almost complete.  Had just figured out I needed to yank a scene from one chapter to the next and how to connect everything together.

And I can't game AT ALL, just as I finally reached Baldur's Gate in Act 3!

Still Alive...Plus A Tease?

Silence isn't some conspiracy.  Holidays into just trudging along, wondering if the Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised is using me as their current time suck victim most days.

Having to type a disgusting amount of edits into the laptop and saving my "good spine" hours for that instead of blog posts.  Pages look like the Crazy 88 after the Bride got done with them.  Or Maki with the Zen'in for a more current reference!  Actually trying to catch up on last year's anime right now too...if you haven't watched Frieren, watch Frieren, second season currently ongoing.  It's like a beautiful soul hug.  Fantasy based from an elf's POV.  Highest RR recommendation possible.  English Dub is very good too and I'm pretty sure is on Netflix at the moment, so easily available.

So...rewrites are on the tail end, next up is starting the second half of the novel (should hit 100k words by the time rewrites are done).  Same as last couple posts despite the trudging, but we have trudged, I promise, lot of pig shit to dodge on them peasant trails, okay?  Dreading going through the forty pages of the next chapter I know I'm mostly going to trash...going to be so much better though, like lightyears of improvement, but urgh.

Your tease:

“You—you think Brother will propose?  Tonight?!?” Victoria couldn’t hold back a squawk.

If I don't post another one of these in the next couple months, it's just more trudging (hopefully not all on rewrites, but the back half as well).  Oh, I started Baldur's Gate 3 finally.  So that's my other entertainment at the moment.  Human Sorcerer just like my DND days...almost 3 decades ago...fuck I'm getting old.  Gale is kinda pointless to the party, the poor bloke.  Have had aggressive Gith domination sexy time, don't judge!

Still Paying For Past Sins

Just reworking what I've already wrote because I'm not happy with it...for THE SECOND TIME, no biggie.  Not driving me insane or anything.  Or killing my spine since it's all being typed back into the laptop...

What was there was unacceptable and this is 10x better, but...yeah, feeling pretty disgruntled by how much time these mistakes (also known as pain induced flippancy or "we'll add it in post") cost me.  We're talking two months just on rewrites at this point.  Granted its a 300 page novel and counting...then the next chapter I've already had some realizations on and...will be seriously reworking it too.  Haven't even checked to see what can be saved and will need to be tossed.  I'm basically changing where characters are in a certain room, so they won't be able to comment on different conversations they were previously part of or WILL, some lines might be transferable with a little tweak or two, but...yeah, whole atmosphere will kick it up a notch.

After that we're luckily into blank page country once again and the last half is all the juicy awesome stuff I planned to write it for in the first place anyway...

Actually this chapter I'm reworking and being so picky about is also super juicy and I think some of you will start squeeing like fourteen-year-old kpop fans over a certain revelation, but ya know...the next bit is even better than that!

So there!

Consider this your "happy holidays" message as well!

Bah humbug!

Been A While Since I Gave a Tease

From "Vicky von Welf and the Maximus Masquerade": 

If she had learned anything about mundanes, it was that they were always calling law enforcement over the absolutely smallest misunderstandings!  No, officer, I don’t have a strobe light in my backyard.  Really?  Airplanes?  Three of them?  But no one crashed, right?

Halloween Proof of Life

Alive and stick kicking.  Well...not kicking.  My brain is telling me that's a quote from a movie, one moment while I search it...and it's from Wild Wild West, why haven't I successfully forgotten that whole disaster by now, brain?!?

What have I been up to?  I'm stuck in edit hell.  Preemptive edit hell.  The worst of edit hells.  The Vicky novel needed a facelift and I've been going through and rewriting various scenes, mostly having to do with Heinrich Welf and Tyson and giving Danielle and Juliette some time too since I know those characters so much better now after writing Seismic Semester.

Or at least that was last month, now I'm into what I wrote early this year while in all that pain and just...everything is a mess.  I think I mentioned this in the August post, but when I was writing this 100 something pages I'm reworking now, it wasn't just the pain that was the biggest obstacle, but the exhaustion and brain fog of not being able to remember what I wrote two, even one week earlier and just being too tired to go back and look for it with the attitude of "I'll fix it later".

Well...it's later.

So that's what I'm doing, fixing all of that.

THE AMOUNT OF RED ON THE PAGES IS TERRIFYING!!!

And I'm adding new writing on top of that, so some pages the whole back is covered too, even on to the next page.

PAST RR IS SUCH A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!

Only 50 more pages of this to go...

*whimper*

Then I have to type it in...

FUCK YOU SO MUCH, PAST RR!!!