First dinner out since this whole thing started. Celebrating our...

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First dinner out since this whole thing started. Celebrating our vaccine efficacy date. Have forgotten how to wear lipstick or talk to strangers. (at Remington Tavern And Seafood Exchange) https://www.instagram.com/p/COwOjv1hUDI/?igshid=1ez6quqg9x8hg (Your picture was not posted)

hopepunk-humanity:“I’m almost 50, and here is th

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“I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted.” louisethebaker on Twitter (Your picture was not posted)

baptism of fire excerpt

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Yes yes, I’m reading the Witcher books, when I can get them from the library. They’re fine, amusing in places, sometimes enamored of their own cleverness; the whole thing is a pastiche of the fairy-tale genre but there are a lot of good character beats nonetheless. But of course, this book is the best one, because we meet the hansa. I’ve seen some of these excerpts, wherein Geralt is sulking over having given an impassioned speech that they were to leave him alone to meet his terrible fate, and all of them laughed at him. But I liked this bit especially:

“How could he get it?” Milva said, grimacing. “He’s just ‘me, me, by myself, all alone’. A lone wolf! But you can see he’s no hunter, that he’s a stranger to the forest. Wolves don’t hunt alone! Never! A lone wolf, ha, what twaddle, foolish townie nonsense. But he doesn’t understand that.”

“Oh, he does, he does,” Regis cut in, smiling through pursed lips, as was his custom.

“He only looks stupid,” Dandelion confirmed. “But I do keep hoping he’ll finally decide to strain his grey matter. Perhaps he’ll come to some useful conclusions. Perhaps he’ll realise the only activity that’s worth doing alone is wanking.” (Your picture was not posted)

what i’m writing

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i know it’s been ages since i posted a thing but i promise i’m almost there.

I’m also having thoughts about the structure. For tidiness’ sake, I’d figured I’d put Ciri Gets A Girlfriend all into one story, then I’d do What Geralt’s Been Up To in another story, and then I’d catch Eskel up in a third story, and then I’d weave those together somewhere, somehow.

But it turns out that there’s a section of a chapter of What Geralt’s Been Up To that absolutely has to be read before chapter 5 of Ciri’s Girlfriend, but then the second half of that Geralt chapter needs to come much later. And then how am I to make it plain where everything is happening? It’s already kind of interspersed with the Keira story events, so it’s kind of…. confusing…..

so I’m poking that now, but. Probably I will have a chapter of Ciri Gets A Girlfriend finally ready to post by the end of the week, and then I’ll figure the rest out as I go. Probably… there will have to be interspersement of some…. and where I put the boundary of the stories will be, hm. A thing.

(I blew through Baptism of Fire in three hours today while multitasking and was like “… that’s it?” but it’s actually a standard-length book I just write really long shit and it’s utterly warped my understanding of how a standard work of fiction is supposed to work. Whoops.)

I was going to post an excerpt but the thing is going to be done so soon I might as well wait. Just know, I’m almost there. I promise.

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