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Wednesday, First Rant of the Year

I think I shall do a New Year's Boast. Mix in the things I aim to accomplish with 10000% horseshit that nobody can possibly get away with. The neat thing about a boast is nobody expects any of it to happen.

Which is a concept I'll have to explain in my OpEd Blog for the slow of mind. In excruciating detail.

Because some of my readers have failed reading comprehension and take everything I say literally, or figure that The Killer could figure out where I am or who I am and thereby come after me. OR they think I'm putting them, personally, on blast where everyone in the whole world can see it. And immediately get on my case in email.

I have three subscribers and one of them doesn't even bother reading that shit. Get a grip.

Anyway, I have been overtaken in the word count race, so I need to get writing.

Tuesday, Patreon and Bread

We're down to our last loaf of bread so I shall be informing Miss Chaos that she's making the next batch. That will be happening later in the day. When she's conscious.

Meanwhile, I have Patreon stuff to post, a story to write, and an ankle to ice every two freaking hours.

And thanks to Trackbear, I now know that I've written almost 13K words for various creative works in less than a firkin week. I had NO IDEA I was that

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Monday, Writer's Group Shenanigans

The Promptcast is racing toward one million communal words this year. We're already at two percent and the first week of January hasn't even passed.

We're a loquacious bunch, it seems.

And competitive.

We're racing each other to put words into works and it's astonishingly fun. Keeping an eye on the Archive just in case they decide to meet, too.

I may also plug the idea of a year's goal to the Archive and see if we can get some friendly competition

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Sunday, Streams and Stuff

I had to beg off doing a query letter because backache, headache, and what eventually revealed itself to be a fever.

I'm making myself some super lazy ginger garlic chicken soup, just in case I have full-on Lurgi. The super lazy part is that I am using things I already have at home, and doing as little as possible in the prep department.

Hello slow cooker, my old friend.

An absolute blessing when you're out of spoons.

I'll get that going after

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Saturday, Query Draft 3

I spent two hours prawning over my laptop and writing fanfic in the wee small hours, and for some reason my back hurts. Correlation is not causation. I need more data on this.

I have no idea how to log in to my KDP account and withdraw Free Baby so that's a pain in the arse for me.

I'll unriddle this in the fullness of time.

There has to be a way to find the account associated with the publication. Or figure

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Friday, I Sense a Cyclone

There's a low pressure system somewhere within a 500km radius of my location and my face is feeling it. I've taken my painkillers and hoping that they actually work this time. If they don't, I have another timer running so I can get a safe, second dose.

Meanwhile, I get going on other stuff. Today's story, cleaning catboxes, creating a VERY rough query letter for Beauties and the Beastly. That sort of thing.

Then I go back around and refine the things

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Thursday, New Year's Day

It's 2026 and we're all hoping for good news this year.

Unfortunately for me, I started the new year with a pre-migraine blind spot. I have taken my painkillers and I'm hoping they save my ability to can.

And yes, I already put words into ADT.

Now to commence the collection of stories for this year. Whilst editing the old collection for errata.

At least I have the cover sorted. Huzzah.

Onwards to creating this year's first element of nonsense.

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Wednesday, New Year's Eve

The year is grinding to a close and I still don't know what I'm doing with myself. Everything is, as always, sideways. But at least I'm having fun with the fic/drawing exchange with Mr. Crowbar.

Come January, I enter another year of attempting to finish off ADT. Maybe this will be the one that does it.

The count of remaining chapters dwindles ever downwards. Unless catastrophe, I should be able to get it down and thereby start to get it out.

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Tuesday, Shopping Expedition and Maybe Patreon

I need to stock up on a few things to keep the fam chewing, and keep me moderately sane. Translation: I need to get some of my meds as well as some supplies.

I don't know if I'm doing Patreon and Rants this week. I'll see how I feel after I return from my excursion.

I am feeling very tired about feeding that beast.

BUT I also want to make sure the chapters are recorded and ready to share.

I also have

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Monday, Internet Socials and Chapter Reads

I'm hanging out with my Archive friends and when they have to go, I shall go annoy my Promptcast friends.

And somewhere in the middle of all that, I'm coming up with a story for today.

TOMORROW, I have to go shopping, so I must extend an invitation to the spawn to go spend their JB HiFi cards.

But today, I can last a bit of a while, so I will get on with today's offerings and trundle off later.

AND there's

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Sunday, One More Fetchquest

Beloved has an artisinal, bespoke phone case for my new phone. She designed and printed it herself. My next challenge is figuring out how to use it in navigation mode because - owing to a misunderstanding - new phone is big and case will make it bigger.

I did politely request a new phone stand for my car. The current jiggery-pokery may not hold. Which promises to be a can of arseholes for yours truly.

I'll find a way to cope. Somehow.

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Saturday, Twofer Incoming

I have successfully trimmed down and posted my story for the Archive. Huzzah.

I'd still like to see how Antihero slices it down. It'll be a good example for folks.

Meanwhile, I have a twofer to concoct to catch up with the calendar, an ankle to ice, and a lot of crimbo bikkies to help make vanish.

The diet is officially off until all the temptations go away.

Offski to go write two stories in a hurry.

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Friday, No Twofer Today

Early this morning was selected as the best time to get MeMum safely home with a minimum of hungover lunatics raising her heart rate.

I thought I'd be perfectly okay not bringing my lappy because I thought I wouldn't need it. Spoilers - I was wrong.

Which we did. Followed by UnAI'ing MeMum's email. During which, Beloved rang to get deets for my new phone. Spoilers, should have sent measurements of me old phone.

So my trip home involved a side trip

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Wednesday, Crimbo PLNs

The rain threatening tomorrow will happen after dark, according to the weather bureau. Hooray. Which also means the plans for the beach Crimbo are NOT cancelled at the last minute and I don't have to do a mad scramble to make the house ready for a cluster of guests at the last minute.

See if you can sense where an argument was happening about that, folks.

I'll be ready for it next year. I hope.

I have Mayhem doing bread and I

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