Hey everyone! Sorry for the late update; I got back from that trip helping my folks move out of our old place just recently. It was a hell of a trip, and I was gone for two whole weeks, so there’s a looooot that needs catching up on. I’m pretty smug about having enough KS queued up to last the whole time, though. Please imagine a very smug face.
My goals this month are a little up in the air; I heard back from a job with a potential offer and I’m waiting on them to confirm so I can go get a physical. If I get the job, I’ll mostly just be focusing on continuing to edit KS this month. If I don’t, I’ll keep filling out applications and work on more stuff in the background; I’m still working on the last part of the current Demon Isles storyline and I’ve been outlining some other stuff, mostly PaS and some Aeris. I’d like to start moving some of the Aeris stuff over here and get a more in-depth description page for it since the setting is quite sprawling. I want a character guide as well, since a lot of them get mentioned in each other’s stories, but it could be a looooong time before I have all the context written up novel-style and posted here.
If you’ve noticed me shifting into more reworking previous stuff for the website, that’s because it honestly takes less creative energy… or like, less creation energy if that makes sense? Thinking up new ideas, fleshing them out, and forming them into a coherent storyline is, for me, the most mentally exhausting part of writing. It’s why I tend to take long breaks to outline in advance; once I have the outline, it’s a lot easier for me to just speed along even if I’m not all there creatively.
Oh, speaking of things that destroyed my life and ability to work, I got a clean bill of health post-surgery. My kidneys are in good working order with nary a stone in sight. BTW, the stone was jammed in there so severely that the doctor had to blast it essentially into dust. There wasn’t even enough left to take a sample! Also, stents suck. Try not to need stents.
As always, thanks to y’all for sticking around with me through this. Getting a job will obviously mean my pace will continue to be slow, but it also makes this a ~passion project~ which I think is a happier general place to be. Takes a lot of the pressure off, at least, which in turn makes it easier to think of new ideas and such.