thursday.

[sunfright]

Did the writing today, finished chapter 7 (July) and will do what little planning and outlining I can tomorrow before/after seeing my parents. All in all, extremely pleased with the progress I made on this particular chapter, I felt it was pretty easy to navigate mentally and my ideas generally, minus a few key places, flowed very freely and came down on paper without a hitch. Very happy. Very, very happy.

Also tired, very, very tired.

Once I've posted this, I'm going to go shower, wash my hair, get ready for bed and sleep. Just sleep, I need all my energy reserves for the morning.

I think my favourite aspect of this prosetry novel is the way I'm working with concepts like humanity and inhumanity, wildness and freedom versus society and hierarchies/power/rule. The Amazon once was part of a community, living an "ordinary" life, but then she left - she fought, she learned about freedom both conceptually and in practice and now, she has to return and conform to what society needs her to be. I tell you, it's some journey. Very, very interesting to write about.

I think one of the reasons this interests me so much is because a lot of her experience in the aftermath of the war she fought is PTSD-driven and while very different from my own traumatic experiences, I really feel for her - and a lot of it reminds me of my father who was a soldier in the Kosovo wars of the late 90's/early '00s which is personal to me on a whole other level.

Anyway, those are the reasons I think this story has come to speak to me on so many levels and why it means so much to me to get it done. I see both myself and people dear to me in it. And I am learning a lot from writing it, not only as a writer, but as a human being.

Thinky things tend to do that, haha. At least to me.

Current word count: 31.014/50.000~
Current month count: 7/12
Current poem count: 212/365