sunfright | november 8th (late).

“Sad as it makes me, I believe I am reaching my breaking point,” she whispers, not turning around. There is no mirror, neither of us can be visible in a surface that doesn’t exist.

“You reached your breaking point months ago; every day that has followed is a battle won.” I look down at myself, I am all torn shreds and dirty hems now, dusty feet. The marks of either war or humility. A soldier’s uniform, or a refugee’s.

“Lost,” she corrects me.

“Perpetuity awaits you,” I tell her.

Marguerite Gautier doesn’t respond.

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I think my main motivation yesterday was pure grit. It wasn't by any day a bad writing day, I marked most of my word count updates with a happy smiley, but I wasn't feeling particularly inspired either and mostly just wrote to get some words down. Grit writing, I guess you can call it. But it worked, so there.

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WRITING progress

Again, more than 2000 words written all in all. A lot of it was not directly my fic, but other related things, notes, blogging, etc.

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WRITING thoughts

I managed to finish chapter 3 and there is definitely going to be a fourth and final chapter, though I need to watch the end of both The Lady of the Camellias and The Story of Manon before I can write it.

The plan for today therefore is: read through all 3 chapters, edit and delete as needed, make notes for chapter 4. Watch the end of the two ballets, make notes for chapter 4, make an update here tonight (and try to actually post it on time, lol) and then I should be ready to start writing chapter 4 tomorrow, where we have a meet-in in Aarhus, so that should be interesting!

All in all, I'm nearing the end of the first draft process and that's pretty exciting! I've even gone as far as to make a moodboard for the fourth chapter that I haven't actually written yet, I'm that optimistic, haha. I hope to be able to finish the first draft before my disability meeting the 17th. /fingers crossed