So...yeah, I could actually be doing this differently this year. Someone in the writing channel of the game dev Discord server I'm in provided a link with a list of alternative writing challenge/tracking sites for November, and some of them looked pretty promising, but I didn't really feel like actually dealing with any of them today.
I'm exhausted for a lot of reasons.
First, the night before Halloween, a tornado warning ripped through here, and I was torn out of my sound sleep at about two in the morning by my phone blaring a tornado warning at me, and I didn't get back to sleep until about five in the morning. (Ironically, despite being awake, I didn't hear the actual tornado sirens, because the TV show I had going to put myself back to sleep drowned them out.) So yesterday I was operating on a sleepless night bookended by about two hours of sleep on either end.
Needless to say, I was a total wreck yesterday. And although I did get a good night's sleep last night, that wasn't really enough to make up for it, so I'm still not on top of my game today. (Even worse, there's no leftover Halloween candy! The local grocery store had already gotten rid of it all by this past Monday, and I of course went to my parents' house as usual so I wouldn't have to personally deal with trick-or-treaters, and they didn't buy enough so they actually ran out. So I get no candy today! 😭)
Then my brother and I went and tried to vote early. It took us forever to find a parking place--literally the last one there--and then we went inside past the stupidly offensive signs (the anti-abortion people are desperate and making up the dumbest lies to encourage people to send us sliding down along the path towards The Handmaid's Tale)--and found that the line inside looked like it was at least an hour and a half long. We were neither of us in any condition for that, so we just got the heck out of there. Apparently the early voting will also be available over the weekend, so we're hoping that maybe it won't be too bad on Sunday morning, but...
Anyway.
Only by lunchtime did I manage to start writing for the day. (Though I did actually write the first scene on my phone before lunch. It's only a bit under 600 words, though.)
It's a promising start for the fic. (I decided to go with an AU where Wei Wuxian is raised among the Lan Clan. Probably been done lots of times before, but...🤷 Probably most MDZS AU ideas have been done before in some capacity or another. But it's not like any two fanfic authors would ever put exactly the same spin on the same idea, so I figure there's no point in worrying about it.) I don't think it's shaping up to be very long, which is very good considering how long the last one ended up being!
Anyway, I'll worry about how to properly keep track of my progress tomorrow.
For the moment, I'll just use words/numbers on the screen:
Goal for the month: 50,000 words
Today's words: 2,700 words
Total for the month: 2,700 words (obviously!)
And now I finally get to play My Time at Sandrock for the first time in about a month, because the 1.4 update is finally out on the PS5, so hopefully Fang will actually deliver his special line at the end of "The Goat," as that bug is allegedly fixed in 1.4. (If he doesn't, then there wasn't a heck of a lot of point to me waiting all this time. Though at least this way I'll get his romance mission from the new DLC before marriage instead of after. Which is something, I guess. Wish my Builder didn't have to be quite such a tiny little guy, though. It's hard for Fang's mouth to reach his lips. I shudder to think of the contortions they have to put the really tall love interests like Owen and Logan through! (Though I'll definitely do a Logan playthrough eventually, so I guess I'll find out in due time...))
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