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friday.
Today has been kind of chaotic and kind of fulfilling in a lot of ways.
First off, I'm taking a short break (thinking until Monday) break from my main project, because it was getting too overwhelming and I was having performance anxiety and other shit like that getting in the way of me just enjoying being creative, so I picked up a rather harmless side project that I'll be working on over the weekend, hopefully to finish a nice one-shot fic before Sunday evening, but we'll see.
Today, the online writing group I'm in hosts a "24 Hours of Writing", running from 4 o'clock in the morning between Thursday and Friday local time to 4 o'clock in the morning between Friday and Saturday, so I've been on and off writing since six in the morning
I got started on my side project. This is a universe and characters I've had in my mind for about a decade in some form or another, so they're very well known to me and a big comfort kinda thing. Especially the MC is like a writing blanket, I know her so well, her way of talking, her mannerisms, everything. So I got started on a one-shot today which I think will be fragments/paragraphs from my MC's personal manifest against her brother who has had legal custody of her ever since her parents died.
It's period fic. I love writing historical shit. I've done a lot of research into 19th century, various aspects, though especially women's and queer history. This fic takes place in the period between 1900 and 1910, so a bit later (though, still Belle Époque), but I'm having a lot of fun researching that as well. The story is inspired partly by A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien, so I have a lot of cues from that - and of course earlier literary works, like The Lady of the Camellias and The Flowers of Evil, even if both of the latter were written by men... I'm thinking of buying The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories, a collection of short stories also by Vivien that sound really interesting. I'm going downtown on Sunday, I might put in an order with my local bookstore. I prefer that to ordering online, although the latter is cheaper.
Anyway, point is. I'm having fun with this little break. It's making me rediscover the joy of just writing for the heck of it.
K. and I both cleaned and made more extensive dinner today, so we're also both pretty wiped now. While cooking, we looked at each other for a moment and agreed that the past weeks have been way, way too hectic and we haven't had time to each other properly. So tomorrow we're going to a local rainforest zoo to get out together a little and picking up lunch afterwards. I'm really looking forward to it, to be honest. I've been able to feel she was stressed out, and she's probably been able to feel the same from me, so this is our way of getting back together in the waves and midst of the storm.
Last, but certainly not least, I found this song today and it's not just the perfect jam for Germaine, my MC, but also just my kind of music. It's so good. Both video and music!
Now, I'll go to bed. Goodnight people!