2024 Writing Log, Part 38
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rynling- I finished and edited the final chapter of An Unfound Door! The manuscript is now complete at a tidy 60k words. I am the slowest writer and the most vicious self-editor in the world, so this is a major achievement for me.
- I edited Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and Chapter 7 of An Unfound Door. Along with Chapter 4, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 provide a solid set of scenes that establish Agnes’s character and background while still moving at a brisk pace. The purpose of this section is to establish a tentative sense of normalcy before Fhiad’s first viewpoint chapter in Chapter 7, which provides an alternative perspective that overturns everything Agnes has taken for granted.
- I started working on “Chamomile Field,” an original short (ghost) story for Caffeine Rush, a digital zine about coffee and tea.
- My review of HoverGirls is live on Women Write About Comics (here).
- My article “Eight Short Free Horror Games on Itchio” is live on Sidequest (here).
- The developers of Ender Lilies found my essay about the game and featured it on their official Twitter account (here). That’s so fucking cool.
- This week’s post on my book review blog is about 川のほとりに立つ者は, a 2022 novel by a prolific and award-winning (yet curiously untranslated) author named Haruna Terachi. It’s set up like a mystery story, but it’s actually about how people with invisible disabilities still face incredible discrimination in Japan. In all honesty, I didn’t like this novel, but I tried to be polite while documenting its existence. If you’re interested, you can read my mini-review (here).
- I commissioned the lovely HollarityArt to create a Warrior Zelda design based on the OG Zelda, and she came up with something really fresh and interesting. You can see the design on Twitter (here).
- I drew a cute teacup ghost and posted it on Tumblr (here).
I’ve been making a lot of submissions and getting a lot of rejections, and the rejections have been making me physically sick to my stomach. I haven’t been able to eat for three weeks now. I’ve lost weight, so much so that I had to buy new pants. I’m doing okay, I guess, but there’s no way this can be healthy.
On one hand, I’m happy to have finished the first draft of my first original novel. That’s an incredible accomplishment! On the other hand, I can’t help but be frightened of what comes next.
- I edited Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and Chapter 7 of An Unfound Door. Along with Chapter 4, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 provide a solid set of scenes that establish Agnes’s character and background while still moving at a brisk pace. The purpose of this section is to establish a tentative sense of normalcy before Fhiad’s first viewpoint chapter in Chapter 7, which provides an alternative perspective that overturns everything Agnes has taken for granted.
- I started working on “Chamomile Field,” an original short (ghost) story for Caffeine Rush, a digital zine about coffee and tea.
- My review of HoverGirls is live on Women Write About Comics (here).
- My article “Eight Short Free Horror Games on Itchio” is live on Sidequest (here).
- The developers of Ender Lilies found my essay about the game and featured it on their official Twitter account (here). That’s so fucking cool.
- This week’s post on my book review blog is about 川のほとりに立つ者は, a 2022 novel by a prolific and award-winning (yet curiously untranslated) author named Haruna Terachi. It’s set up like a mystery story, but it’s actually about how people with invisible disabilities still face incredible discrimination in Japan. In all honesty, I didn’t like this novel, but I tried to be polite while documenting its existence. If you’re interested, you can read my mini-review (here).
- I commissioned the lovely HollarityArt to create a Warrior Zelda design based on the OG Zelda, and she came up with something really fresh and interesting. You can see the design on Twitter (here).
- I drew a cute teacup ghost and posted it on Tumblr (here).
I’ve been making a lot of submissions and getting a lot of rejections, and the rejections have been making me physically sick to my stomach. I haven’t been able to eat for three weeks now. I’ve lost weight, so much so that I had to buy new pants. I’m doing okay, I guess, but there’s no way this can be healthy.
On one hand, I’m happy to have finished the first draft of my first original novel. That’s an incredible accomplishment! On the other hand, I can’t help but be frightened of what comes next.
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Date: 2024-11-12 03:22 pm (UTC)To be fair a lot of the mainstream American movies, TV shows, and music in the 1990s were shit. There was something very weird in the water during that decade. Homophobia was a given, as were tasteless jokes about race, but holy shit. The misogyny was off the charts. I can't imagine what it must have been like to grow up steeped in that culture.
I mean, I guess I can. I guess, for better or worse, we all lived through Gamergate.
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Date: 2024-11-14 11:15 pm (UTC)