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I'm back from vacation, having gotten quite a bit less done than planned. I think I grossly underestimated both just how much I had written for chapter eight of Where You Belong, which is looking to turn out to ~4000 words or so in its draft form, and how tedious it was to get it transcribed into my computer. I did get it halfway done, and may try to finish it yet, purely because that 2023 last upload date is making me sad.
Well, vacation is vacation, and all of this is a hobby, anyhow. It was not as though I spent the whole time as a potato, either. I finished a tiger-man in procreate while I was there using a technique I had never really tried before (working on tones first, then, and only then, adding in colors by stacking overlay and multiply layers on top of one another.) and I must confess I'm pretty proud of it.
This took about 15 hours, which is pretty fast for me.
Man, I need to draw more.
I also finished a short story that, because it was absolutely a first draft and completely unedited, got thrown into the "playground" section of my website, which is a page I made for any original work I write that I don't consider "scraps", but don't view as "finished, either". It's very much intended to get myself writing more by removing the restrictions I tend to place on myself for posting.
I want something similar for my fanfiction stuff, I think, but that's for later.
I've also finished page ten of chapter eleven for WYB after my return on Saturday, and may finish the chapter out completely before going to work tomorrow, since it's definitely looking like it'll top out at eleven to twelve pages long. As much as I hate to do a POV swap, I'm seriously considering doing exactly that for chapter twelve, there are things going on in the background that I strongly feel would be much more efficient/interesting to deliver through another character's eyes.
In the meantime, I've decided to try out writing my short story/drabble/headcannon type of stuff using my new fountain pen. The typewriter is great, but bouncing between more than one project at the same time is a real pain, since you either need to finish a page, or pull your current one out of the roller, start on something else, then re-roll and re-align your old page once you want to pick your other one back up. This has been a huge blessing for keeping me focused in one fic at a time, but if I want to bounce around, having a notebook with some handwritten garbage I can throw in my royal for a second draft may be the way to go..
I'll try to get back to more regular posting here, now that I'm back.
Well, vacation is vacation, and all of this is a hobby, anyhow. It was not as though I spent the whole time as a potato, either. I finished a tiger-man in procreate while I was there using a technique I had never really tried before (working on tones first, then, and only then, adding in colors by stacking overlay and multiply layers on top of one another.) and I must confess I'm pretty proud of it.
This took about 15 hours, which is pretty fast for me.
Man, I need to draw more.
I also finished a short story that, because it was absolutely a first draft and completely unedited, got thrown into the "playground" section of my website, which is a page I made for any original work I write that I don't consider "scraps", but don't view as "finished, either". It's very much intended to get myself writing more by removing the restrictions I tend to place on myself for posting.
I want something similar for my fanfiction stuff, I think, but that's for later.
I've also finished page ten of chapter eleven for WYB after my return on Saturday, and may finish the chapter out completely before going to work tomorrow, since it's definitely looking like it'll top out at eleven to twelve pages long. As much as I hate to do a POV swap, I'm seriously considering doing exactly that for chapter twelve, there are things going on in the background that I strongly feel would be much more efficient/interesting to deliver through another character's eyes.
In the meantime, I've decided to try out writing my short story/drabble/headcannon type of stuff using my new fountain pen. The typewriter is great, but bouncing between more than one project at the same time is a real pain, since you either need to finish a page, or pull your current one out of the roller, start on something else, then re-roll and re-align your old page once you want to pick your other one back up. This has been a huge blessing for keeping me focused in one fic at a time, but if I want to bounce around, having a notebook with some handwritten garbage I can throw in my royal for a second draft may be the way to go..
I'll try to get back to more regular posting here, now that I'm back.
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