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I had labor day off yesterday, which was unexpectedly nice. I ended up checking on my work, just in case, though. I've never been quite able to get over the paranoia of accidentally getting myself in trouble by missing a day, somehow.

I used the free time to hit up my local antique mall, which I quite enjoyed, and almost convinced myself to pick up a couple of books before remembering how many I had at home that I was yet to finish. The Maltese Falcon still needs its last few chapters polished off, and I need to get back into From Here to Eternity on top of that. It took over 400 pages, but Prewitt's finally going to jail. Supposedly some of the stuff that's set to occur there is based off things the author really saw, and I've been doing my best to avoid spoilers, so I'm curious about how it's going to go.

I'm trying something new for my fanfiction writing - getting up about thirty minuets earlier than I otherwise would, and just using that time between getting up and getting ready to sit down at my typewriter and have at it as best I can. I'm not a fan of getting up early, but I can't seem to establish a good routine for writing late at night. I really feel if I can nail down a habit, and do it in a time and place where I won't self-foil from avoidance, I'll finally start really making headway on finishing this arc. 

I'm getting way ahead of myself to even think about it, but I want the next arc to be a large scale portal run, where Valerie and a bunch of yetis dive into another world and raid it for money. Technically, it's more like arc two-and-a-half, but I don't think I'll be able to hold back on posting that long. That 2024 last post date kills me a little harder every month. 

I've also started experimenting with loose-leaf paper, my fountain pen, and playing with bits and pieces of the story in non-linear order, sort of writing down dialogue and  scenes I really want to happen without fussing so much about linearity. I'm an intensely linear person, so this is pretty different for me, but it is fun to play around with my pen. 

I do wish I would stop blowing through my capsules so fast. I need to either grab a syringe to refill them, or knuckle down and purchase a different pen that uses a siphon rather than capsules. My current pen, being a speedball, is too small for a converter, or so the internet tells me.

On a related note of trying to get more done by loosening up, I'm fairly close to finishing my next webpage, which should be dedicated to unfinished and sketchbook-y artwork. The hard part, truly, is just uploading my stuff, which I actually have a fair amount of. Once  I finish its dedicated page, I'll probably need a day just to load up my backlog into the site. 

There's Some Danny Phantom themed sketches in there, too, which need to be stuck in my fandom page, now that I think about it.