Dinner Party From Hell Conquered

Chapter List for Vicky Book

One Does Not Just Drive to Welf Manor <---finished

A Boy is In My Room, Squee!!!  <----finished

Constructs:  The Next Generation <---finished

Hands Up!  Fashion Police! <---finished

Consanguinity, What's the Worst that Could Happen? <---finished

Winter Lovin' <---we are here

The Battle for Tyson Bonnie

A New Challenger Appears!

Maximus Wrangling

Eureka, By Victoria Von Welf

Over the hump?  Feels like it.  Pretty happy with how it all turned out as well.  Mama Welf has a great monologue in addition to a bunch of other little moments.  Vicky has her own major epiphany, Tyson holds his own in political warfare, and one of the new characters introduced is pretty much Emily from THE BETROTHAL but with superpowers...so...that's terrifying.

I am considering moving some of the exposition back to an early chapter and turning it into a conversation since there's like a three thousand word info dump and that's after I cut some of it and rearranged it so it wasn't all smushed together.  I favor a TELL AND SHOW approach with King Henry because he's so off the wall, but other characters don't get to break the rules of writing like he does.  Or like...every rule that's ever ruled...

Side note:  Smushed is a word, Google, get your shit together!

The chapter I'm working on now is mostly just a reset chapter before we go into the big event that is the main reason I decided to write this Vicky novel.  I'm not sure how many pages that main event is, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be at least 50% of the whole novel, if not more.  There's a TON of characters and happenings and...oh, good stuff, good stuff!

I am taking off the rest of the year for the holidays, but this is progress.  Still can be better, but I'm feeling like my old self and health wise I don't think I've felt this well in at least a decade.

Mom really needs the support and happy thoughts right now with everything that happened, especially since my aunts are stranded on the other side of the country cuz the Rona.

And is happening...we got kind of smacked in the face again a couple days ago.  My father went in for his yearly check up and apparently his heart is in AFib.  He's got really bad lungs already from working in a cold box warehouse his whole life, so we just figured his latest bout of fatigue and windedness was the usual winter mix, but...nope.

Obviously a very NOT GOOD situation.  For one, it increases his risk of stroke and heart failure massively just on its own.  They already stuffed him full of blood thinners and got him into a specialist the very next day...such rapidity itself being alarming.  And after years of hauling my grandfather to and from appointments and surgeries, my poor mother has to take my father in next week for an echocardiogram and a cardioversion to try to reset his heartrate.

It's not even the "he could die" part that's troubling me, it's just the idea of more doctors after everything we've already gone through...I've only had two months of normal, if you can have anything normal in 2020.  Fuck me, again?!?!

So I'm taking a week off.  Watching some movies, watching some sports, playing some football manager.

I'll dive into the Welf Winter Gala in 2021.  And *fingers crossed* get back to King Henry terrorizing Singles this year too!

Love to all of you, stay safe, and have a happy new year!