sunfright | friday.

I feel like it's Saturday today, which evidently it is not. It's just because it's a bank holiday in Denmark and thus, "the first day of the weekend". Meaning, in my head, Saturday.

It's been a really nice day, too. K. and I have relaxed until late in the afternoon when we did a quick sweep of the apartment, cleaning it out, bought Chinese for dinner and have now been writing all evening. Well, I've been mostly RP'ing, but K. has been writing and I have also managed a few poems for the Omina project. It's going places. I'm currently on 49.500 words, so very close to a real NaNoWiMo-length project and there's still a month and a half worth of poems to go, so we'll no doubt go past that, too.

I reached a central peak of the story today. I won't go into too much detail, but it was extremely emotional to write and the after-effects of it will shape the final part of the story to en almost unrecognisable degree. This both excited me and saddens me. But it had to be done and it was beautiful. Sad, but beautiful.

I was really nervous, picking this story back up, that I wouldn't be able to get back into the feeling and atmosphere and language of it, but at least the feeling and atmosphere have come to me pretty easily. Still uncertain of the language, but I looked up a random place in February earlier today and read it over, and the language still strikes me as recognisably the same vibe, so. That's good, I guess.

I don't know how authors writing books of 1000s of pages manage to keep their language consistent. It's definitely a struggle for me, it feels.

If I continue at this pace, with a couple of poems every day, I'll be done before the beginning of June. This makes me very happy. Hopefully, it means I'll be able to post it over the summer months and be ready for new, exciting writing adventures on the other side of summer vacation!

K. and I have talked about going on a vacation/writing retreat to Copenhagen during summer holidays this year. She has five weeks of vacation in June + July and it just seems like a good idea to take some time off to get away, enjoy what we enjoy doing most with each other and revisit and reacquaint ourselves with our favourite places in Copenhagen at the same time. We haven't booked anything yet and it might not be easy to get anything this late in the year, but I remain hopeful. I really want it to happen!

We'll see. If nothing else, we'll definitely be going to Copenhagen in September to watch La Sylphide when it returns to the stage with the Royal Danish Ballet.

Win/win either way, I guess.