Still Alive, It's Hot

Typical Fresno summer period where its super hard to be motivated to do anything but just exist in misery when its triple digits outside and even with AC you've been sucking the same air for a week and your air purifier is looking at you judgmentally.  "Stop farting!  Stop shedding!  Why does the cat have to be so fluffy and ginger, huh?!?"

Got two more scenes to get through on this chapter.  Found myself writing a really lovely character motivated scene that was sadly pretty pointless plot wise, so brought ANOTHER tea spill that was planned for a later chapter and stuck it in, giving it a purpose and it works rather nicely.  Lately, I find myself more interested in characters confessing information than our POVs being surprised by revelations later, though there's plenty of that for Vicky in this novel too.

So yeah, slow progress is still progress, even if it is so very frustrating when the novel is again shaping up to be the size of most ACME anvils.  Already looking forward to autumn and winter, when it's cold and my brain will work properly!  When, apparently, El Nino is supposed turn California into one giant mud slide...and cause famine in the entirety of Eastern Asian...you get an apocalypse and you get an apocalypse, and everyone gets an apocalypse!!!

No Doctors/Dentists For A Month

I plan to enjoy myself.

Writing is part of me enjoying myself.  So is playing the new James Bond game and watching the World Cup, but yeah, as much writing as my spine will allow.  Which is more than when I have to sit in a dentist chair twice a week bracing my neck against a drill.

Actually the chapter I started a couple weeks ago is already well on its way and over half done.  And revelations galore!  None of them really important for the main story or the lore, but if you love character drama, tea has been spilled!  

See you all in a month.

All The Input Is Done

Bit of a good news, bad news flip flop going on in my life at the moment.  Did manage to type in all the bloodred murder scene pages into the laptop, AND to finally figure out the scene structure on that chapter, so it's like...90% done.  Actually the whole first half is like 90% done.  Word here, phrase there, typo, brain fart, do detective work on a note referencing a past novel type stuff.  It is how it will be in the final novel at this point, just rearranging the deck chairs before bon voyage.

Also managed to type in the other slightly less bloodred 'man that's a bad nosebleed' pages that have been moved into the next chapter now.  Now my mission is to go through about 50 pages worth of previous work done while in stupid levels of pain and see what I want to save.  I think the vast majority is getting tossed, but maybe some dialogue and the occasional exposition might be salvageable.

Bad news:  I haven't been able to dive into that yet and won't next week either because I've been dealing with a tooth that got infected and I've had to make multiple dentist and endodontist trips over the last six weeks for lovely antibiotics and a root canal and just...SO MUCH FUN!!!  Lymph nodes swelled up, nerve died, ya know, SO MUCH FUN!!!  As someone who's had a lot of pain, that's the most pain I've ever experienced.  You just exist in the pain, no stopping it whatsoever.  It kicked tramadol in the balls and left it whimpering in an alleyway.  Literally had to freeze the nerve with a cold pack just so I could swallow one mouthful of bone broth, then repeat ever few minutes.  SO MUCH FUN!!!

Also good news:  spine is behaving.  Just the occasional mid back stabby stabby that I can fix with lying down for a rest.

Bad news:  still haven't got back to BG3.  Might never, hard to get back into games after you set them down for a time after real life strikes.  Halsin been kidnapped by a cultist for over two months at this point!  Granted I barely said three words to the guy and he was disappointed I wouldn't join his gay bear sex orgy, so he's a menace and deserves whatever the shapechanger is doing to him...

Good news:  Hades 2 finally came out on the Playstation.  Yay!!!  HD and 60fps instead of fuzzy whatever that was on the Switch.

So, one more root canal appointment then I need to get the crown set and placed, meaning like 3 more total over the next couple weeks.  Cross your fingers.  I will try to sneak in a day here or there through it all, really champing at the bit.  Chomping at the bit?  Have we decided if that's been replaced by the modern word yet?

That hit of typing in the pages and doing some solid editing after so much back crap to start the year felt amazing.  Way my mood spirals or improves based on how long its been since I've written is probably unhealthy, but too deep to stop at this point...

RFA Done

Recovering.  Already feeling much better.  Hope to be back typing seriously by the end of the month.  Still have about 40 pages left to get into the computer then it's onto rewriting that last trouble chapter, at which point the book will be on the back end.  A long back end, but still heading DOWN the mountain rather than up it!

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!