well, well, well...
Jan. 18th, 2023 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quillpunkSo time's been kind of... funky. The headache has and is still kind of hanging around—it's only gotten bad enough that I needed to take medication once but I do feel it sometimes, especially toward the evening. I can't really explain it, plus my pain tolerance is pretty damn high so it's not something that overtly bothers me. Though it's annoying.
Aside from that, I've been spending the last week outlining a new story—a gay geek/jock lighthearted romance. I currently have 20 chapters outlined and the outline is already over 5k words, LOL. (My outlines are... hefty.) I'm really liking it so far; I'm going hard for a goofy, silly romance with no drama. ...Though some bits of angst might be trying to sneak in there. (The audacity.)
The first draft of A GRAVE SO HAUNTING, my nano project, has now surpassed 65k words. I'm expecting it to land at around 90k words, and considering I've only been working on this (draft) for 3 months now, I am really, really pleased with this progress.
Reading-wise, I didn't manage to finish A LADY FOR A DUKE (or a is it a A DUKE FOR A LADY??) by Alexis Hall before the library loan expired but it's fine, I'll re-loan it at some other point. I think the mood just wasn't hitting the right point for me; a bit too much grief that didn't mesh well with my depression.
The depression in question kind of got it's claws particularly deep for a bit there, too. It's actually kind of absurdly funny to me how quick I started feeling a bit better when I got mail that a book I've bought has entered my country (though it hasn't left customs yet...). Especially considering it's in Mandarin so I'm only going to understand like every 20th word.
Since then I've been reading some of the books I got this Christmas, and that has buoyed my mood some more. I'm really pleased with the books, even if they aren't all amazing. I've since refilled my wishlist with some cool new titles I mostly have never heard of before, LOL. I've also joined Scribd and have found some cool titles there, too. And, of course, I've been neck-deep in fanfiction.
So lots of reading this past week.
Aside from that, I've been spending the last week outlining a new story—a gay geek/jock lighthearted romance. I currently have 20 chapters outlined and the outline is already over 5k words, LOL. (My outlines are... hefty.) I'm really liking it so far; I'm going hard for a goofy, silly romance with no drama. ...Though some bits of angst might be trying to sneak in there. (The audacity.)
The first draft of A GRAVE SO HAUNTING, my nano project, has now surpassed 65k words. I'm expecting it to land at around 90k words, and considering I've only been working on this (draft) for 3 months now, I am really, really pleased with this progress.
Reading-wise, I didn't manage to finish A LADY FOR A DUKE (or a is it a A DUKE FOR A LADY??) by Alexis Hall before the library loan expired but it's fine, I'll re-loan it at some other point. I think the mood just wasn't hitting the right point for me; a bit too much grief that didn't mesh well with my depression.
The depression in question kind of got it's claws particularly deep for a bit there, too. It's actually kind of absurdly funny to me how quick I started feeling a bit better when I got mail that a book I've bought has entered my country (though it hasn't left customs yet...). Especially considering it's in Mandarin so I'm only going to understand like every 20th word.
Since then I've been reading some of the books I got this Christmas, and that has buoyed my mood some more. I'm really pleased with the books, even if they aren't all amazing. I've since refilled my wishlist with some cool new titles I mostly have never heard of before, LOL. I've also joined Scribd and have found some cool titles there, too. And, of course, I've been neck-deep in fanfiction.
So lots of reading this past week.
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