some updates!

so! some things! i'm super out of the loop on DW (haven't even checked my noticifactions in a A While, so my apologies if i've missed something. i hope you all have been doing good! <3

• I hit 2 of my deadlines! And I had enough brain power to remember to request an extension a third, and managed to get that in on time, too! Still open is the fandom5k one, I really don't know what I'm going to do with that...

• I've been watching a lot of Josh Johnson's standup comedy on YouTube, and it's very fun and cozy. Highly recommend!

• I've updated my wishlist with a bunch of things, because I was feeling daring. I'm most excited about finally managing to add an amazon gift card. I have no idea if it will actually work, though!

• In regards to the various writing challenges I'm doing, it's going. One of them is total anon required, so I can't talk about that at all, but for the others: on the Hot Wet Queer Summer challenge, I've got a decent start, I think. I'm going kind of vintage gothic vibes? So it's faux-historical, and hopefully some cosmic horror will make it's way in there. For the Sexy Werewolf challenge, I think I need to start over. I'm A) not happy with my current version adn B) the current version should be a full-length novel, which is a bit ambitious in a single summer. I'm thinking of changing gears entirely and doing something way, way shorter. Choices, choices...

• I highly recommend the Solo Leveling fic Dragon Ascending by Aeraneth, even if you've never consumed Solo Leveling. There's so much world building! So much character development! It's a beautiful thing and I adore it, and it's making want to write SL fics, too. I haven't been around the SL corner in so long, it's kind of funny LOL. But I just really love this fic! <3

• I've been feeling a bit tapped out lately writing-wise (which makes sense: I finished writing a 70k novel not that long ago and have tossed myself into More Writing for all the challenges and exchanges and whatnot) and so right now I'm writing a self-indulgent Teen Wolf (pre-steter) fic just for me. It's very soothing XD and I mean, sure, deadlines are looming closer and I'm just ignoring those things... but it's fine. Sometimes you need to write something silly without pressure to recharge the creative juices, and oh boy, is my brain delivering. Deadlines be damned.

• I've barely read 10 books this year (my mental health was and contiune to be meh) but I recently read The Husband Hoax by Saxon James, which was a fun and relaxing read.

• A writing challenge I've been doing on Discord for literal years now is Bookdun: it's a six month challenge where you get split into three teams, and at the end of the season, the team with the most points win. 10k words = 1 point. (I have 15 points right now, which is my highest ever!) You can join at any time, but a new season starts in July (technically I thinks like Jun 29 or 30) and runs through December, if you want to try going in when the battle's just starting. I'm quillpunk on discord, if you want to poke me about it, and I'm happy to talk it up more here, too. And it's perfectly fine to be lurker that literally just updates point for the challenge, that's basically what I've been doing the whole time. There's no need to participate in the server beyond that :)

• 2 of the challenges I'm doing now are on itchio, and require itch accounts. To that purpose, I now have one. Better yet, I've been exploring, and found some cool authors writing some very cool things on there. On my profile, I've collected links to them, fun porjects and collections! Becuase itchio has collection functionality, which I never knew. And I found some extra cool ones! XD

• I can't remember if I've mentioned WritingHabit.app on here, but it's a writing browser app. And aomng other fun stuff, it has a leaderboard (daily, monthly, yearly) and it's very fun climbing it :D My username is roboticalshark on there <3

Okay, I can't think of anything more right now. But hopefully I'll see you soon! <333

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