2019 Weekly Writing Log, Part 1
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rynling- As of a few days ago my book has a page on the publisher’s website and a listing on Amazon, and they just asked me to pick out a cover. Apparently the official release date is September 10. I feel weird, like, are we really doing this thing?? I guess we’re really doing this thing. *nervous laughter*
- I finally finished an academic article on Ganondorf that I’ve been working on since August. This essay means a lot to me, so I sent it to a friend who generously agreed to help me with proofreading and formatting. He just sent it back to me, so this week I’ll go over it one more time before I submit it to a journal called Games and Culture.
- I finished putting together my Haunted Haiku zine. I’ve been working on this every day during the month of March, and I’m starting to get excited about showing it to people. The cover, which was created by Sarah Winifred Searle (whose graphic novel Sincerely, Harriet is phenomenal, like easily 15/10 stars), is a true work of art, and I’m playing around with her design in Photoshop so that I can make a bookmark to send out to people along with the zine.
- I finally got around to translating the third page of Nintendo Dream’s Wind Waker developer interview.
- I posted the second story in the A Hero’s Inventory fic series. For some reason it hasn’t been easy for me to put these story ideas into words, and I’m only averaging a sentence a day. Thank god these stories are supposed to be short by design.
- I posted the first two chapters of that Contemporary AU Zelgan idea I wrote about earlier, which I’ve decided to call “Malice.” I’m already super emotionally invested in this story, and I contacted dark fantasy artist extraordinaire Monica Doss to inquire about commissioning character designs and a cover illustration.
- Speaking of commissions! I just discovered the work of the indie game dev Bynine, and I like their style a whole lot, so I commissioned them to draw Yunobo from Breath of the Wild. Because why not? Yunobo is my secret favorite character from the game, and this artist has a talent for drawing Gorons.
It seems like I got a lot done now that I’ve written everything down, but you know the funny thing? I feel as if I accomplished nothing because practically no one is paying attention. I keep hearing that there’s a minimum seven-year line to breaking into any given field or market, but it sure would be nice to have some external validation right now. I’ve been feeling super worthless for the past few months, so I’d like to start up these writing logs again. We’ll see how this goes, I guess.
- I finally finished an academic article on Ganondorf that I’ve been working on since August. This essay means a lot to me, so I sent it to a friend who generously agreed to help me with proofreading and formatting. He just sent it back to me, so this week I’ll go over it one more time before I submit it to a journal called Games and Culture.
- I finished putting together my Haunted Haiku zine. I’ve been working on this every day during the month of March, and I’m starting to get excited about showing it to people. The cover, which was created by Sarah Winifred Searle (whose graphic novel Sincerely, Harriet is phenomenal, like easily 15/10 stars), is a true work of art, and I’m playing around with her design in Photoshop so that I can make a bookmark to send out to people along with the zine.
- I finally got around to translating the third page of Nintendo Dream’s Wind Waker developer interview.
- I posted the second story in the A Hero’s Inventory fic series. For some reason it hasn’t been easy for me to put these story ideas into words, and I’m only averaging a sentence a day. Thank god these stories are supposed to be short by design.
- I posted the first two chapters of that Contemporary AU Zelgan idea I wrote about earlier, which I’ve decided to call “Malice.” I’m already super emotionally invested in this story, and I contacted dark fantasy artist extraordinaire Monica Doss to inquire about commissioning character designs and a cover illustration.
- Speaking of commissions! I just discovered the work of the indie game dev Bynine, and I like their style a whole lot, so I commissioned them to draw Yunobo from Breath of the Wild. Because why not? Yunobo is my secret favorite character from the game, and this artist has a talent for drawing Gorons.
It seems like I got a lot done now that I’ve written everything down, but you know the funny thing? I feel as if I accomplished nothing because practically no one is paying attention. I keep hearing that there’s a minimum seven-year line to breaking into any given field or market, but it sure would be nice to have some external validation right now. I’ve been feeling super worthless for the past few months, so I’d like to start up these writing logs again. We’ll see how this goes, I guess.
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Date: 2019-04-02 02:23 am (UTC)it sure would be nice to have some external validation right now god, it's me in a nutshell, how dare you call me by my Christian name like this? ;) But yeah, writing is horrifically hard for that :(
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Date: 2019-04-02 11:45 am (UTC)*shakes all the pompoms for you*