2023 Writing Log, Part 30
Aug. 26th, 2023 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I’m very slowly writing Chapter 17 of The Demon King.
- I’m very slowly writing Chapter 11 of An Unfound Door.
- Yes!! Two novels at once! I cannot choose; I love them both so much.
- I’m very slowly editing Chapter 9 of An Unfound Door, which I wrote around this time last year.
- I’m very slowly re-editing my Lovecraftian romance “The Annotated Kitab al-Azif” to prepare it for submission.
- I did another edit of my essay on the early FromSoft game Evergrace and pinged my editor at Sidequest to remind them to add it to the editing queue.
- My review of the Game Boy horror game Soul Void was posted on Sidequest (here). Soul Void is free to play/download on Itchio (here), and it’s an amazing game. I’d describe it as “Undertale for people who love horror but hate bullet hell.”
- My review of Sas Milledge’s graphic novel Mamo was posted on Women Write About Comics (here). I also posted a short essay on why this story resonated with me on my own website (here).
- I’m very slowly working on a commissioned review of Daniel Dockery’s book Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All. This book is a media history of American children’s programming in the 2000s. It’s interesting to read, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the author is a big Digimon nerd. Bless his heart.
- I tried out a new coloring style on a simple drawing of a Korok, which I posted on Tumblr (here).
This week was anxiety hell for me, and I played a lot of Elden Ring to escape from the stress. I need to photosynthesize sunlight or I will die, but I can understand why people become shut-ins. It’s probably a blessing that the fall semester begins this coming week. A new strain of Covid is going around, so I’m eating healthy and drinking lots of juice but also stocking up on instant noodles just in case.
- I’m very slowly writing Chapter 11 of An Unfound Door.
- Yes!! Two novels at once! I cannot choose; I love them both so much.
- I’m very slowly editing Chapter 9 of An Unfound Door, which I wrote around this time last year.
- I’m very slowly re-editing my Lovecraftian romance “The Annotated Kitab al-Azif” to prepare it for submission.
- I did another edit of my essay on the early FromSoft game Evergrace and pinged my editor at Sidequest to remind them to add it to the editing queue.
- My review of the Game Boy horror game Soul Void was posted on Sidequest (here). Soul Void is free to play/download on Itchio (here), and it’s an amazing game. I’d describe it as “Undertale for people who love horror but hate bullet hell.”
- My review of Sas Milledge’s graphic novel Mamo was posted on Women Write About Comics (here). I also posted a short essay on why this story resonated with me on my own website (here).
- I’m very slowly working on a commissioned review of Daniel Dockery’s book Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All. This book is a media history of American children’s programming in the 2000s. It’s interesting to read, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the author is a big Digimon nerd. Bless his heart.
- I tried out a new coloring style on a simple drawing of a Korok, which I posted on Tumblr (here).
This week was anxiety hell for me, and I played a lot of Elden Ring to escape from the stress. I need to photosynthesize sunlight or I will die, but I can understand why people become shut-ins. It’s probably a blessing that the fall semester begins this coming week. A new strain of Covid is going around, so I’m eating healthy and drinking lots of juice but also stocking up on instant noodles just in case.
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Date: 2023-08-28 04:19 pm (UTC)Admittedly it's been a combination of the weather spiking above 100F and recovering from surgery, but there have been several stretches of 3-4 days recently where I never went near the outdoors, even from behind a window. It has cooled off now, though.
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Date: 2023-09-04 11:07 pm (UTC)Also fuck climate change.no subject
Date: 2023-09-06 11:32 pm (UTC)fuck climate change indeed.Yeah, it was kind of a lot (is kind of a lot) and I am carefully not thinking about a lot of it, to be honest. I feel much better now (though I'm still supposed to limit my lifting of heavy things, we're not going to talk about the luggage I am currently dragging around as I head out to visit a friend) but it's really wild how much of my stamina just got straight up deleted by this. The worst part (two days before surgery and 4-5 after) was only a week! How can it have messed me up so much? Bodies are so inconvenient. But I am here, alive and pretty well considering, and I'm so grateful for that.