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[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Day 10 & 11

Day 10 was full of ideas that are going to help pull various projects together.

Day 11 was a mix of rest and a big OH THIS! Yeaaaaah THIS! Which I would have written into words but I was coming down with a cold and now I’m just tired so it will need to wait. Notes jotted in a safe place for later.

[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Day 10 - Breaking News

So-- there is this really short piece of fanfic about my corpo V that appeared in my head while I was making lunch today and just started writing itself word for word.

I just made notes so I can write it later, where later is very soon.

It's all about the texture of life and socializing in Night City. Not really a story per se. More of a vibe.

Actually, it is in response to one of those "in the tags" posts that I haven't had a chance to respond to but will in a few minutes but then I need to go back to work on other things.

Thankfully the weekend is almost here.

Night City fanfic. Tasty.

[sarasa-cat]

Belated NoNaNo Day 9 Update

I didn't have a chance to post yesterday because I was only at my computer for a short period of time in which I was WORKING MY ASS OFF.

Yesterday's writing accomplishments:

Lots of ongoing digital organization and tidying for keeping all of the my projects organized.

Lots of notetaking on some research materials for a nonfiction project that has a somewhat academic angle, sorta

Slowly typing a bunch of words summarizing my overall thesis for said project. About a page and a half of carefully considered text.

Updating my reading list (still working on this) to pull in more research.

~~~AND THEN~~~

A long leisurely dinner at a local restaurant with someone who was willing to be a listening ear as I summarized the importance of said thesis, project, etc etc, while providing appropriate background.

Received a smattering of useful feedback but, mostly, a big "oh, this makes sense. this is a MUCH better framing than your original angle from a couple of years ago when you put this aside after getting stuck."

[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Day 8 addendum

Once I got outside, my body was all let’s go go go go and wanted to move so I ended up doing a 10k while not listening to an audiobook but, instead— drum roll— blasting my epic playlist of inspo music for Even The Littlest Monster.

OH MY EPIC FEELS FOR MESSED UP LUCRECIA AND SEVERELY FUCKED UP VINCENT.

All of these scenes I wrote in my head mostly during the 20teens— so visual like movie footage — all came flooding back and just ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I need to finally write the words and I have so much to say on this but not while typing on my phone.

[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Day 8

I am trying to write. I have been screamed at for 3 hours straight. My cat is so pissed off about something and I don't know what. We have fed him multiple meals. He wants to steal my chair.

SO MUCH SCREAM AND I AM TRYING TO WRITE. FOR THREE FUCKING HOURS NONSTOP JUST FUCKING FUCK

(Nonfiction, professional writing)

I'm gonna show him his cozy space in the closet and then go out for a walk.

[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Day 7

Honestly, the sun sorta came up. The sun went down. Even though I am home, I have more coffee, the cats are fed, and I spent a few minutes mucking around in GB3 making minor changes to the skin tone of my new Yennefer of Faerun while trying to kick start my brain with more coffee (i now have a pretty good facsimile of Witcher 3 video game yennefer) --- despite all of that.

My desire to word words is not happening. And that's fine.

I think a rather brutal, punishing 7k (all elevation changes, many elevations) during whatever passed for noonday sun killed me dead. And then I was too damn hungry to just go home and cook/scrounge, and the lunch place I wanted to go to was closed today, so I had to chance it with a place that ended up being a big mistake (omfg so tasteless, so heavy, so uuggghhhhh sticking to my ribs and hurting). That was when I searched on my phone if the current flu & covid vaccines temporarily REDUCE aerobic capacity and the answer is Statistically Significant YES but, also, that exercise will boost the immunity response (which is good). SO..... yeah. Killed myself dead but for a good cause? Buuhhhhhhhhh..

When I got home, I flopped onto the couch and just stared at the ceiling while my cats looked into my eyes. Feed us. Feeeeeed us. (I could not move).

The upshot is: I'm not writing.

Even though this is a day that is wide open for me therefore a perfect day to bang out all of the words, IT AIN'T HAPPENING. (and the fact that I wanted to type all the words last week when I was overscheduled, as that is entirely how my life is on my weird fortnightly schedule? Well, fuck it. That's life.)

Today I don't feel like writing. I am devoid of words. Writing this post is epic effort because my brain is in images only mode. Sounds and pictures. Not words.

BUT HERE IS WHAT I DID DO and WHAT I PLAN ON DOING for the rest of today.

ONE: I started listening to an audiobook that is giving me ideas for one of my on going NONFICTION projects. YAY! I'm gonna let those ideas marinate. I listened to a little over an HOUR of that book. That was lots of ideas. Into the brain meat.

TWO: I am still feeling like I have a haphazard system for keeping all of my writing stuff organized --- it became haphazard thanks to entropy despite once being super organized. I AM GOING TO CONTINUE FIXING THAT SYSTEM TODAY. Because that is brain dead office worker work and perfect for an exhausted body-brain day.

THREE: I have lots of moodboard images that I need to organize and start printing out and placing them together in helpful places. I'M DOING THAT THIS WEEK and maybe even TODAY.

FOUR: I'm gonna fill the creative well with some BG3 late this evening and this play through requires me to think about "What would Yennefer do in this situation" which is character analysis and story analysis and good for writer brain.

[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Day 6 - Part 1

Writing session 1: Wrote a really random scene that came out of nowhere after various events this morning. Not sure what this is for but it is full of MOOD while raising 10000 different questions. Would made a great opening for something. 360 words.

Now to writing session 2.

[sarasa-cat]

NoNaNo Nov 5

To honor the 5th of November, today is self-care Sunday.

I am currently examining mods for BG3 (something I haven't looked at since AUGUST) and getting ready to finally remake my Tav-as-Yennefer for a wild romp through this game.

I have some other self care things scheduled for today but hopefully this evening I am gaming. Gaming! And that means taking in story which is its own form of filling my creative well. Because my creative well deserves that.

(fwiw, late last night, after my body completed a 30 hour study session learning how to make antibodies, I took COPIOUS NOTES on two chapters of a new book I got -- those notes are useful for fiction and nonfiction so win win win for me)