2024 Writing Log, Part 28
Jul. 28th, 2024 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I’m continuing work on Chapter 20 of An Unfound Door. I thought this chapter was going to be short, but alas. Once I allowed the heroine, Agnes, to take stock of her emotional state, it turns out that she had some things to say.
- I drew a portrait of Agnes and posted it on Tumblr (here). This illustration exists for the sole purpose of serving as a reference to send to actual artists, but I think she’s cute.
- I’m still chipping away at Chapter 14, the final chapter of my Tears of the Kingdom fanfic novella Lay the Gods to Rest. It’s slow going, but it’s getting there. It might be easier for the characters to restate the themes of the story if they had sex, but I’m not feeling it. This is more of a romance of ideas than it is an actual love story, and it’s probably best to carry that tone through to the end.
- In response to a marvelous prompt on Tumblr, I wrote a fic drabble about Link and Zelda on a cooking show (here). This undoubtedly amuses no one save myself, but I was very amused. This silly story got me out of a writing slump, and I’m grateful to the person who suggested it.
- I edited my listicle about A Link Between Worlds, found some images for it on YouTube, edited those images, and formatted the manuscript for the Sidequest website. Working on this was super fun.
- In between mouthing off about Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom on Tumblr, I wrote 850 words of a meta essay about the original Legend of Zelda game to submit to the upcoming Silent Princess fanzine. My thoughts about Zelda as an action hero are complicated, and it feels good to defend a character who uses more than a sword to solve her problems.
- Somehow, despite all odds, I was accepted into the Studio Ghibli fanzine. This week I got started on a story about the Heavenly Warrior (giant robot) gardener from Castle in the Sky. I’m only 500 words in, and already there is so much moss. Truly I am living my best life.
- This week’s mini-review on my Japanese literature blog is about Seichō Matsumoto’s classic 1958 mystery novella Tokyo Express. To make a short story even shorter, I don’t understand why this is a classic. The mystery is tedious, and the story has no emotional core. I said this in a somewhat more polite way on the blog (here).
The theme for this week was “self-doubt sets in.” Instead of dwelling on it, I went to Home Depot. Giant bags of dirt were on sale for $5, so I bought two and planted some fucking flowers.
- I drew a portrait of Agnes and posted it on Tumblr (here). This illustration exists for the sole purpose of serving as a reference to send to actual artists, but I think she’s cute.
- I’m still chipping away at Chapter 14, the final chapter of my Tears of the Kingdom fanfic novella Lay the Gods to Rest. It’s slow going, but it’s getting there. It might be easier for the characters to restate the themes of the story if they had sex, but I’m not feeling it. This is more of a romance of ideas than it is an actual love story, and it’s probably best to carry that tone through to the end.
- In response to a marvelous prompt on Tumblr, I wrote a fic drabble about Link and Zelda on a cooking show (here). This undoubtedly amuses no one save myself, but I was very amused. This silly story got me out of a writing slump, and I’m grateful to the person who suggested it.
- I edited my listicle about A Link Between Worlds, found some images for it on YouTube, edited those images, and formatted the manuscript for the Sidequest website. Working on this was super fun.
- In between mouthing off about Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom on Tumblr, I wrote 850 words of a meta essay about the original Legend of Zelda game to submit to the upcoming Silent Princess fanzine. My thoughts about Zelda as an action hero are complicated, and it feels good to defend a character who uses more than a sword to solve her problems.
- Somehow, despite all odds, I was accepted into the Studio Ghibli fanzine. This week I got started on a story about the Heavenly Warrior (giant robot) gardener from Castle in the Sky. I’m only 500 words in, and already there is so much moss. Truly I am living my best life.
- This week’s mini-review on my Japanese literature blog is about Seichō Matsumoto’s classic 1958 mystery novella Tokyo Express. To make a short story even shorter, I don’t understand why this is a classic. The mystery is tedious, and the story has no emotional core. I said this in a somewhat more polite way on the blog (here).
The theme for this week was “self-doubt sets in.” Instead of dwelling on it, I went to Home Depot. Giant bags of dirt were on sale for $5, so I bought two and planted some fucking flowers.
