Weekly Accountability

Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Weekly updates delivered every Saturday!

Completed Projects

• 100% Finalise book proposal draft

Goal Updates

• 0/3 chapters of Promises 2
• 7/14 books read

Writing Updates

This Week’s Fiction Wordcount: 7,851

This Week’s Non-Fiction Wordcount: 2,525

Stabby Cinnamon: I had to backtrack a bit on Stabby Cinnamon, so most of those words are a second draft, but I’ve got past the point that was bothering me, so it should be smooth sailing (ish) and it may even turn into a shorter draft than I feared!

Life And Other Such Important Matters

My bramble has flowers now! Well, one flower. And my small dice tray has fabric lining inside! And… beyond that the week wasn’t too exciting, really. We did some weeding. Well. I did some weeding and tried to get people to do things I couldn’t and failed at the latter. [sigh] But yes thing are quiet. A friend and I are trying daily productivity check-ins and seeing whether and how those work for us. I need to find out where the seam ripper went and then I can get started on my sewing projects. I have three: a warm and cozy scarf and two pairs of pants that need a… gusset? I don’t sew a lot. One of the reasons I’m wanting to do this myself is so I can learn. Presumably adjusting clothing is a little easier to get the hang of and you can get better from there. (Besides I already can’t wear them. I can hardly make them fit worse.)

I also got roped back into my Finally Watch All Things Ghibli project. So of course this week is the one where there’s a lot of discussion about ‘Ghiblicore’ (which is totally a visual aesthetic, less so a genre denominator), which honestly my main reaction to it was to cry for joy because clearly I am not the only one with that particular “let’s ignore the BITE and heavy topics because wholesome, comforting fluff” and I will never tire of seeing examples of it.

Stand-out Positive Moment

My bramble has a flower! Not only did it survive until today, IT HAS A FLOWER. GO LITTLE BRAMBLE GO!

This Week on Patreon

All the Patreon posts from the past week, collected in neat and tidy lists, divided by tier.

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• Week 15 Round-up

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• Lynn rambles about… Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Season 7
• Let’s Play Rise of Tomb Raider: Extra #6
• Discussing “Frigidity, Curses, and Imagination: Thinking the Absence of Male Desire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” by Marion Philip

How about you? What have you been up to lately? Has anything awesome happened?

Weekly Accountability

Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Weekly updates delivered every Saturday!

Completed Projects

• One short novella
• season 3&4 of The Legend of Korra watched

Goal Updates

• 0/3 chapters of Promises 2
• 6/14 books read
• 0% Finalise book proposal draft
• LP of Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Writing Updates

This Week’s Fiction Wordcount: 23,745 (I’m sorry what. No wonder I was out of spoons.)

This Week’s Non-Fiction Wordcount: 0

Glitter: This is a weird little novella, just, that Patrons will be able to read (partially) at the end of the month and then the conclusion next month. Have fun with it! I don’t do silly stuff very often and this is very silly. (Yes, Becca, this is exactly what you probably suspect it is. Now with less actual song lyrics and more incessant nattering!)

StabbyCinnamon: I blame Aliette de Bodard for this. Entirely. But hey I have my own stabby/cinnamon combo now. It’s fun! And very odd in a way since it’s just so different from what I normally write. If you all still respond to this (when it’s available) with “It’s so cute and wholesome”, I will attempt to give up. Nothing will convince you all that I put content warnings in for a reason. (Seriously, though, ILU all and am honoured people think my writing is soothing even when dealing with hard stuff. It’s largely just an endless source of amusement.)

Life And Other Such Important Matters

I am almost done with PT! Which is… interesting because apparently PT has maybe had the side effect of being good for my feet? At least I’m finally able to wear a less worn-down pair of sneakers without first putting a bandaid on my heel. (It… was a thing. And yes it was necessary.) I hope that stays, to be honest. I also spent Thursday and Friday mostly collapsed. And wondering why because surely the past week had not been that intense for my doing and. Well. [gestures at wordcount] Apparently it was.

Beyond that, though, life goes on. We’re wrestling background checks still, so joy not knowing if I need to plan a move on a nonexistent budget. My plants are doing all right, surprisingly. The strawberry seems to have forgiven me for thinking it would be fine without wire to protect it. We’ve had a cheeky robin fly into the house twice now. Because cheeky birds. And… yes. Things are quiet as they usually are for me.

Stand-out Positive Moment

My  dice finally arrived! I ordered some dice from Firebolt Dice during their clearing of Magical Girl dice and they took foreeeeever to arrive because mail. I’d seen them before and assumed they were sold out and then was alerted to a clearing sale on the non-perfect-but-useable remainder. And I pounced. I’m absolutely delighted with them. I think Neptune is the only blue die colour of the set I’m missing? (Also Venus.) But they’re so pretty. And they have a 1/7 difference I can actually parse quickly! I can work with the star/dot for the 6/9 one, though a bar at the bottom would’ve been better. (I think the issue is largely on the d20. Where they’re right beside each other. Whoever decided that the 1/7 and 6/9 numbers on dice faces needed to be directly beside one another? WHY DO YOU HATE PEOPLE, PERSON WHO DECIDED THAT?!)

Anyway! So I… had not thought I would get a chance for shiny magical girl dice, which you have to admit are extremely me, and then I did! And I got a set. And they promptly got stuck in the postal services for a month or so. Usually things arrive in a week or so, so I was a smol ball of anxious. And then I was a smol ball of anxious no more!

And I know this might seem silly to people, but these dice really do just make me happy.

This Week on Patreon

All the Patreon posts from the past week, collected in neat and tidy lists, divided by tier.

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• Let’s Play Rise of Tomb Raider: Extra #5
• Discussing “Asexual Affects: What Abjection, Anxiety and Shame Have to Do with Asexuality

How about you? What have you been up to lately? Has anything awesome happened?

May Newsletter

Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Monthly news and accountability!

Life And Other Such Important Matters

Life continues, as it does. We’re just puttering along as best we can. I’m trying to get back into actual updates, which so far has been going swimmingly. (It has not.) I’ve adjusted to a cat-less life for the time being. It still feels weird. I blame this for my sudden acquisition of a strawberry plant. My bramble has survived the winter and seems to be doing fairly well despite my fears. I’m… impressed. I have no green thumbs whatsoever and am used to killing everything green I attempt to care for.

Big changes may or may not be on the horizon. I may not know until the end of the month. And… beyond that honestly life just goes on and we do our best to function.

Completed Projects

• He Must Go Walk the Woods paperback
• Rerelease Fairytale Verses & Rapunzel, Rapunzel
• Rerelease Among the Glimmering Flowers
• LP of Rise of the Tomb Raider

May Goals

• One novelette/short novella
• 3 chapters of Promises 2
• 14 books read
• season 3&4 of The Legend of Korra watched
• Finalise book proposal draft
• LP of Shadow of the Tomb Raider

April Goals

• Stay on track (or at least don’t fall further behind where I wanted to be)
• Sort out the print proofs of FBF and Woods

Hey, look, I mostly succeeded at this! I’m not sure how clearly I’ve stayed on track, but I certainly don’t think I’ve fallen behind where I wanted to be. At worst I’ve rearranged a few things that needed doing. Still! We’re aiming higher for May! I think I’m at a point where I don’t have a bajillion admin aspects running through my brain and may actually manage to focus somewhat sensibly.

Writing Updates

This Month’s Fiction Wordcount: ???

This Month’s Non-Fiction Wordcount: 0

April was largely taken up with prep for book 2 of Promises, as I’d decided that the best way to approach it is to reread book 1 and try to actually organise my notes so I can find things easily if I need them. (Spoiler: so far it turns out I did not need them, after all.) It also saw me finalise the paperback for He Must Go Walk the Woods So Wild, rerelease Among the Glimmering Flowers, and relaunching the verse novels under a more streamlined author name. (I’m nothing if not fickle. I know.) So I actually got a lot of necessary admin and book-related things done. They just ate into my writing time a lot. But since all that is out of the way now… May is looking optimistic.

Stand-out Positive Moment

The moment I got to hold the He Must Go Walk the Woods So Wild proof in my hands. EEEEEE!!! FINALLY! I’m so happy people seem to enjoy that collection. I wasn’t entirely sure how it’d be received since I combined extremely fluffy and soft stories with some extremely dark ones, but people seem to like them and appreciate the balance between them.

This Month on Patreon

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• April Newsletter
• Week 14
• Week 15

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• Discussing Chapter 11 of ACE
• Let’s Play Rise of the Tomb Raider #26
• Let’s Play Rise of Tomb Raider: Extra #1
• Discussing “Opting Out: Anorexia, Asexuality, and Early Modern Women” by Simone Chess
• Let’s Play Rise of Tomb Raider: Extra #2
• Discussing “Unconventional Uncles: Queer Father Figures and Avuncular Relationships in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith” by Christine Johns
• Story: The World Works in Sevens
• Let’s Play Rise of Tomb Raider: Extra #3

How about you? What have you been up to lately? Has anything awesome happened?