2024 Writing Log, Part 45
Nov. 23rd, 2024 06:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I wrote a thousand-word story summary for An Unfound Door. This is one of the materials agents ask for if they like your query letter, and it’s also something I needed to create in order to rewrite the query letter itself.
- I rewrote the story pitch for the query letter and hated every second of the process.
- I’m continuing to commission character art to keep myself energized and motivated. This week I asked a fantasy illustrator who goes by Armd39 to draw Fhiad, and she posted the portrait on Bluesky (here). Arma was wonderful to work with, and this was a fantastic creative experience that easily added a few months to my life.
- I posted a short meta essay about Chapter 15 of An Unfound Door on my blog (here). This post contains some thoughts about zombies, as well as a dark and mysterious illustration by Loustica Lucia, a Dragon Age fan artist who draws fun character portraits.
- Although I don’t have any plans to post my original short story “Chamomile Tea” on AO3 or elsewhere, the Caffeine Rush zine I wrote it for is now free to download (here). I also created a PDF with just my story, which you can access (here). This story is about working so hard you meet Death herself, and it’s inspired by the real-life experience of a friend who recently left her publishing job in Manhattan to move to the woods.
- I finished my review of Textual Cacophony, edited and polished it, and sent it off to the journal editor. Right on time!
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Kiyoko Murata’s literary novel A Woman of Pleasure, which I loved beyond all reason. The book is about the sexual slavery of a geisha-in-training in the early twentieth century, but it never feels that way. Instead, the reader is invited to experience the daily life of a young woman in a different time and place while watching a slow but steady shift toward female self-liberation. You’d think this story would be difficult and heavy, but it’s actually a joy to read. I’m happy I discovered this novel.
- I finally found the time to restructure the “List of Reviews” page on the book review blog (here). I should have done this years ago, but better late than never.
- To accurately portray my new ontological status of “tired all the time,” I drew a self-portrait to use as my icon on Instagram. I also posted the piece on Tumblr (here). It’s as good a representation as any if you’re curious about how I’m doing these days.
I have a bunch of deadlines coming up soon, so I’ve been chipping away at various projects. To help keep myself sane, I decided to undertake the quest of tracking down all the Koroks in my most recent game of Breath of the Wild. I currently have 250 of the little fuckers. Only 650 more to go!
- I rewrote the story pitch for the query letter and hated every second of the process.
- I’m continuing to commission character art to keep myself energized and motivated. This week I asked a fantasy illustrator who goes by Armd39 to draw Fhiad, and she posted the portrait on Bluesky (here). Arma was wonderful to work with, and this was a fantastic creative experience that easily added a few months to my life.
- I posted a short meta essay about Chapter 15 of An Unfound Door on my blog (here). This post contains some thoughts about zombies, as well as a dark and mysterious illustration by Loustica Lucia, a Dragon Age fan artist who draws fun character portraits.
- Although I don’t have any plans to post my original short story “Chamomile Tea” on AO3 or elsewhere, the Caffeine Rush zine I wrote it for is now free to download (here). I also created a PDF with just my story, which you can access (here). This story is about working so hard you meet Death herself, and it’s inspired by the real-life experience of a friend who recently left her publishing job in Manhattan to move to the woods.
- I finished my review of Textual Cacophony, edited and polished it, and sent it off to the journal editor. Right on time!
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about Kiyoko Murata’s literary novel A Woman of Pleasure, which I loved beyond all reason. The book is about the sexual slavery of a geisha-in-training in the early twentieth century, but it never feels that way. Instead, the reader is invited to experience the daily life of a young woman in a different time and place while watching a slow but steady shift toward female self-liberation. You’d think this story would be difficult and heavy, but it’s actually a joy to read. I’m happy I discovered this novel.
- I finally found the time to restructure the “List of Reviews” page on the book review blog (here). I should have done this years ago, but better late than never.
- To accurately portray my new ontological status of “tired all the time,” I drew a self-portrait to use as my icon on Instagram. I also posted the piece on Tumblr (here). It’s as good a representation as any if you’re curious about how I’m doing these days.
I have a bunch of deadlines coming up soon, so I’ve been chipping away at various projects. To help keep myself sane, I decided to undertake the quest of tracking down all the Koroks in my most recent game of Breath of the Wild. I currently have 250 of the little fuckers. Only 650 more to go!
