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November/RDMo wrap-up

Meant to make a post sooner but uhhh

Anyway! I didn't hit the 50,000 words but I wrote every day which is nice :D

As you know I worked on the middle-aged mages anthology and I did finished a first draft for two of the stories. I still want to finish up the third before I set the project aside for a bit.

Stats:

Total word count: 36,564 The charmsmith: First draft completed at 16,356 words I'm mostly happy with how this one came out. Took an unexpected turn but I like it. Sudden Beauty and the Beast vibes

The verdigris sphinx: First draft completed at 9,085 words Horrific, gory, unhappy >:) Also took an unexpected turn. Hello to the new viewpoint character. Will need a lot of work on account of. All the unexpected changes.

"Gender is a magical construct" (WT): First draft almost completed at 10,762 words. Will finish it up. This one also needs a lot of work lol, but I have a clearer idea what it needs now 👍

Untitled master thief story: 1,525 words. This one I had the least idea where I wanted to go with it and surprisingly, this did not reflect well on the word count!

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Finished The Verdigris Sphinx at only 9,085 words. It is gruesome. It is gory. It ends badly, too, which is pretty new territory for me :D It took an unexpected turn but I don't hate it!

Total word count is now at 26,742 - I did start to write the master thief story somewhere inbetween.

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Calling the first draft of The Charmsmith finished! 🎉 This was my big side goal for the month, so no matter what happens at least I've got this lol. It comes in at 16,356 words - I've already written a few extra words for The Verdigris Sphinx but it has not yet acquired. A direction.

I think I'm going to start on the master thief story next >:)

Snippet! Vittorio and his friends discuss the charmsmith and how to break his curse. Spoiler warning I guess. All names are subject to change ^^;

English below.

»Der Kuss der wahren Liebe kann es nicht sein, das hat Vittorio ja schon ausprobiert.« »Was übrigens bei deinem Chef ziemlich unweise ist«, bemerkte Taumriel. Vittorio verdrehte die Augen. »Es ist… so ist es nicht.« »Wie alt ist der Typ eigentlich?« »… älter.« »Vittorio!« »Was? Ich steh auf ihn! Ich bin alt genug«, murmelte Vittorio. »Hat er eigentlich mal versucht, aus dem Haus zu gehen? Ich meine, was passiert dann?«, unterbrach Selene geschäftsmäßig, was Vittorio ziemlich recht war, weil er nämlich nicht wirklich wusste, wie er sich erklären sollte. »Weiß nicht«, gab er zu. »Ich kann ihn mal fragen.« »Vielleicht ist der Fluch ja längst gebrochen und er hat es nur nicht gemerkt«, kicherte Rinaldo. »Er meint, er würde es merken.« »Okay, schön, er meint auch, was mit einem jüngeren Angestellten anzufangen, also würde ich auf seine Meinung vielleicht gar nicht so viel geben.«

"It can't be the kiss of true love, Vittorio has already tried that." "Which is pretty unwise with your boss, by the way," Taumriel noted. Vittorio rolled his eyes. "It's... it's not like that." "How old is the guy, anyway?" "... older." "Vittorio!" "What? I'm into him! I'm old enough," Vittorio muttered. "Has he actually tried going out of the house at some point? I mean, what would happen?" Selene interrupted all businesslike, which was good with Vittorio, because he didn't really know how to explain himself. "Dunno," he admitted. "I can ask him." "Maybe the curse is long since broken and he just didn't notice," Rinaldo giggled. "He thinks he'd notice." "Okay, well, he also thinks he should get it on with a younger employee, so maybe I wouldn't care too much what he thinks."