out in daylight, my potential

Hrrrm. Idk if I'm going to manage Camp NaNo this round after all. My sleep schedule's been fucked up and that has ruined every schedule that exists (because I have OCD, and the exact times matter and if I can't do things at that exact time nothing is getting done), so... not a lot of writing got done this month.

I was on schedule for, like, one glorious week, though, and in that time managed to get down an outline for this book. I need to tweak it and expand on it, but it is definitely story-shaped and not terrible! It's actually starting to look like it's going to be really fun to write, when I get there. So maybe the Camp NaNo after this one...


Only tangentially related to writing, but I came to a realization this week that kind of... broke through some of the learned helplessness about my life. And suddenly I have a plan for shit and, like, some hope that things will get better than they are, and it is strange but a really nice change.

I really need to Hamilton the shit out of a thing at some point today, and I am stalling on starting because I don't totally know what I'm doing and I'm very concerned I'm going to fuck it up... buuut I'll get over that once I've had a little more coffee. Despite the schedule fuckery, I am feeling a lot more on top of my shit than I have in a long long time.

Books are unpacked from their boxes and in my bookshelves! I still have two and a half boxes of books to go through and decide if they're staying or going, but at least those will fit in the closet while I figure it out.

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Also, the vet gave the OK to let Ariel out of the closet and around the other animals again. He's a little freaked out about all the space he now has, the other cats are a little freaked about him, but every one of them is a big baby pushover, so I do not foresee more trouble than a few hisses while they get used to each other again.

There are people supposed to come over and set up my new desk soon (really for real this time, I hope), and once they're gone I can settle down and try to write. I am in the middle of an action sequence in FSMG, one of the first scenes I imagined when I started putting the story together, and it is hard but fun. Today is not bad so far.

Things that I have discovered about the Faeries Stole My Girlfriend universe today:
- Fae are basically tumblr aesthetic bloggers and this is hilarious.
- I don't know how to pluralize Tuath De. I think it's Tuatha, and Tuatha feels right to me so I'm going with it, but I really don't know. (Update: I figured it out and I was right. Yay me!)
- Janet's kingdom is the Island of Misfit Toys and everything is going to be so terrible when the surrounding kingdoms realize what's going on there. I can't wait.
- I think I finally figured out the nature of fae and the whole courts thing, which I had been having a problem with for a while. actuallyclintbarton and thebonesofferalletters are great and I love them.

Kiiind of considering crowdfunding this in some way once I've got a few stories done and am back on meds so I can put out stories in a more timely manner? But I have no idea what I am doing on that front, and I have no kind of audience. Like, barely over 300 tumblr followers, and exactly 3 people who are actually reading this blog? So I don't know.