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Pain Hurts

A 415-post collection

Monday, Backup Reads and Time Management

I got a lot of the kudzu in the book cover done. I might have to do some more abstract leaf dots for the distant kudzu climbing up the flatiron building. They need to be tiny-tiny after all. I might also make use of the blur brush.

Time will tell.

Nevertheless, the doodling-while-listening tactic worked. I have a whole lot of leafy shapes all over my canvas. Yay.

I'll have to do that in other moments where I'm technically prevented from writing by people talking. Having the iPad set up by my keyboard has boosted my art productivity. Win.

I still have Guy Generic to finish, rubble to paint, and more distant kudzu to climb all over the sole recognisable building.

Today - I write my story, and attempt to work on more than one chapter of the new and improved ADT. As well as my Promptcast thing. I have the starting idea, I just have to do the rest of it.

Procrastination is my copilot. But in spite of that, I still get shit done.

Sunday, Stream Stuff Sequentius

The Promptcast only has five entries this week [so far] so it's promising to be a short one. There's a possibility that I can 'clear' another chapter rewrite for the new and improved version of A Devil's Tale.

That's version number three for those keeping track.

Version One: Pure fanfic. Getting closure for a game that just... evaporated because Kosh wanted a happy ending.

Version Two: Five GoogDocs and four years.

Hopefully, version three is the one that makes it to the

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Saturday, Some Semblance of a PLN

Today, I aim to write something for Weird Writer Wednesday, likely about nibbling problems to death. I shall also be working on the daily tale. THEN I shall do something towards my cover art.

I can do this. It's beating the inertia that's the issue.

Maybe that's what I'll write about for this coming Wednesday.

But first, I must get on with the stuff that earns money. Even if it is a small amount of money.

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Friday, Things To Do

My agenda, such that it is:

  • Daily Tale
  • Cataloguing more comics
  • Working on the rewrite of ADT

Maybe, I can catch up on my To-Be-Watched pile, but that's for winding down in the evening.

I should focus on getting that done, but there's anxiety and people needing to talk and all kinds of distractions hither and yon.

I need to stop playing with the Endorphin Machine [my phone] and get on with getting on. I know I can.

Let's go.

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Thursday, Shopping, Anxiety, and New Draft

I have commenced rewriting Book One of A Devil's Tale, but I hope the whole process takes less time than four dingdang years.

Some of it is a little touch-up.
Some of it is a complete rewrite.
Some of it is new material.

My characters need space to be three-dimensional. Especially Kosh's crew. So, as I have been joking with the read-through group - we're going to need a bigger book.

It's still going to be a sextology, because I can't think

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Wednesday, Teh PLN Worked!

I posted my Weird Writer Wednesday first thing! Hooray. Now I can focus on the next thing to write for next week. I've done my Promptcast thing and sent it off! Huzzah. More free time for the fucking multitude of other side projects I have going on.

Whee fun.

October is looming and my cover art is only halfway done. If I actually make time for it, I can get it done. I just can't be too lazy or it looks like

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Tuesday, Milestone and a Dove

Yesterday, Adorable rescued a fledgeling dove from the Magpie Mafia. We think it's a Spotted Dove, but identification is a little difficult. Beloved and Adorable are plotting to take it to the vet's for a patch-up and advice on how to go forward.

Or for a transfer of custody.

Spotted Doves are not pests, they're one of the species that kind of blew in from the island chain to the north. So hopes are good that this little creature can have a

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Monday, Overprepared?

Apparently, yesterday was the hottest September day on record, here in Sunny Queensland. It was PERISHING hot in the nerd cave. And since I don't want to do that again, my PLN runs thusly:

  • Wake up early [today was 1AM]
  • Do my work during the cool hours
  • Sleep off the hot hours
  • Lather, rinse, repeat
  • Until we get some variant of atmosphere control in the nerd cave.

I foresee an absolutely miserable summer for myself, but at least I shall be able

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Sunday, Stream Stuff and Other Nonsense

This week is the last week that my writing is paying the bills. Beloved and the others have that week to figure out finances. There shall be much ado about looking for work amongst the housemates. Or otherwise helping to pay the bills.

We will figure it out and keep the roof over our heads.

There may be a need for austerity for a bit, but we will manage. We have managed before. We can manage again.

Some of that management has

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Saturday, Promptcast, Patreon, and Organisation

I got the Patreon stuff posted! I wrote a thing for Weird Writer Wednesday! And that's why I'm writing this [and my subsequent story] in the afternoon.

I pln to get that tale done, eat some ice cream, and have time for entertainment. Read: Minecraft or BG3.

I'm still figuring out the new routine, but I will get there. Eventually.

Speaking of, I'd best get there with some fresh free fiction for y'all.

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Friday, Teh PLN

[To the tune of We're Off To See The Wizard] I'm off to see the vampires, to go get some samples of blood..

Fed self and felines, had breakfast. Today, after my lovelies get back from whatnot and I finish my breakfast... I am thence off.

When I come back, I am icing my stupid fucking ankle whilst working on my silly darn book cover for the thing I wrote LAST YEAR.

It's a bit procrastinate-y around here. NOT helped by the

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Thursday, Shopping and a New Schedule

Obviously, there has to be a new regime. A new day for my Patreons. A new schedule for Weird Writer Wednesday. Basically, because I don't have the time schedules I used to.

So.

My pln for Weird Writer Wednesday is to write it ahead of time and press the Publish button on Wednesday.

I'll likely end up doing that on the same day I put the Patreon stuff to post. Which, given that everyone has money on Wednesday [as far as I

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Wednesday, Back Onto Track?

I sincerely hope I can write something for this week's Weird Writer Wednesday. Alas, shenanigans with the Promptcast crew may be intervening. Just as I was about to get my entry edited, a fellow member had a crisis and the crew is helping them sort it out.

I am also among the crew.

Gotta help others so that others may help you.

I shall try nonetheless.

Story happening whenever it can be arranged.

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Monday: Promptcast, Group Chat, and Other PLNs

Tomorrow, I get my liver scanned. Yay. Then I get a snack on the way to visit the local vampires to get my blood drawn. Huzzah.

That's tomorrow.

Today, I have to figure out what's happening for the Promptcast. I know one of the crew wants Trey Vector, Galactic Inspector, but I keep thinking of the chapters I needs must rewrite for ADT.

I'll spitball at my friends on that.

And there's the regular daily tale to wrangle. Plus paying the bills

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