Where the Rabbits Write
Surprisingly I found time to return to Fairy Flight. I tell you close to 8000 words a chapter is painful. Seriously, fantasy is rough.
Yet progress! I can close off this “day” as I write in days and move to the next. Oh happy me. The book itself, book II, needs a bit more love and attention before I reach its end. And then there is book III, hooray! I already have plans for book III. I just need to write it.
But that is the life of an author.
November was writing month, I put myself on a measly 25k words and well it kicked it down to 20k because the story didn’t want to flow.
Ever had to deal with a story that doesn’t flows? Well it happens! And it sucks… you got a basic story and it just doesn’t wants to go anywhere. Crazy right?
Luckily I found out in the first week. The rest of the month I filled my word count with miscellaneous stuff. Most of it is utterly worthless, just opinions about stuff. As if one is talking to someone else. What you watched on Netflix, why certain series suck, why owning a DVD collection is so good. Stuff like that. Filler.
Beyond that December is slow. But that is fine. I really hope to get stuff back in running in January. Fairy Flight for instance has had two months of rest and I should be closing in to the end of book II at a point. Yup, that would be nice. Even if it is was a first edit… just say THE END or … Book III… would be nice.
A lot of stuff needed to get done too so eh. What can I say I don’t like visiting the doctor but sometimes you have too. Life right? I was hoping that the month wouldn’t fill itself up with all kinds of things yet those things happen. And you deal with them.
I don’t expect much from December. It is a weird month in what everything has to be done in TWO WEEKS. After that it is worthless and we are reaching it soon. Much like the Blu-ray with Interview with the Vampire, season two, will only come to me at the end of January? Sure.. makes sense. Order something now get it much later. I know this stuff happens because… yeah.
In many ways this is why I wanted to do as much as possible in November. The one month that isn’t crazy yet. There is always January but that month is empty, nothing. Which is good, and bad, some call it boring. I call it relaxing.
So January? Lets get back to writing a lot that month.
Checking the date of the last post, wow that has been a while. Ah the summer went by, hot weeks, not so hot weeks. Relaxing in many ways.
Not that I haven’t written during it. Or that new projects didn’t show up. Far from.
I picked up painting. Indeed I paint now, badly, but I paint.
And I am picking up drawing, because that has to be done too.
Writing wise projects are slowly moving along. Slowly that is a given but now the summer is over and the “stay inside” weather is rising I should find more time for one mayor thing.. writing.
Also I have been “wasting” time into watching series. I don’t call it a waste as a good story can stick to the mind for later writing.
See I got multiple streaming services. And all of them cost money each month. So to make decisions if they can stay I began to start a log.
A basic log keeping track of what I watch on what service and how long those series/episodes are. Useful, so far I learned that I use HBO Max the most, which due to a grand-fathering structure I get permanent 50% off. A lot of fun little series on that service. Another thing I learned is that yes I do watch Amazon Prime, but not the huge shows… but the smaller things. I like 25 minute videos. Or 44m max. The loser here is also the most expensive, Netflix, still it has a few pretty nice series.
Amazon Prime has after a few years updated its prices too, in a sneaky way. The 4.99 I had for years [a month] now is advert based. Still have to decide if I keep it. For “only” 2.99 I can remove the adverts. Sneaky!
And Disney Plus? Long Cancelled, I hoped to get a few older Disney movies… little in that. And the newer stuff just isn’t for me. So that was an easy choice to cut many months ago. I think I still get once in a while a notice that for only 4.99 I can get Disney Plus, yeah the advert based one.
In the end it isn’t much of wasted time, progress in many areas, maybe not writing. But such can happen. Such is life.
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