monday.

[sunfright]

Two weeks into K's vacation and most of the "tough" stuff has gotten over with. We've dog-sat, I've paid some emotionally draining bills, doctor's visit and some socialization. Tomorrow we'll be shutting off our phones, locking our door and enjoy four days of self-imposed artists' retreat with no chores, take-away every night and a lot of writing and piano playing for me and her respectively. I've really looked forward to this a lot and have finally decided on what to work on during it.

Before vacation started, K printed my whole Omina verse novel and I'll be doing some serious re-reading + editing and (maybe) start writing on a kind of sequel that popped into my head yesterday. One of my friends is currently doing the second round of beta-work on the novel, so at some point soon-ish I'll also be able to go through another set of notes and corrections on it and have it more finished. I look forward to one day being able to share it with you all. I'm no longer sure it's going up on AO3, but I made my own community for it, yearlong where it will be posted in whatever format I have patience for.

I foresee a lot of formatting.

While we're retreating, my online writing community is hosting a writing sit-in where you're ideally supposed to work 24 hours in a row, which is no doubt more than I can manage, but I'll participate in however much I can and hopefully get started on the sequel/side story-thingy I now kinda wanna do. I actually have the idea for two of those stories, since I one day want to write something from the perspective of the Amazon's love, too, but for now I wanna continue working with the Amazon as a character and get her back on the battlefield. Get her full circle.

On the other side of writers' retreat, K still has two weeks left of her vacation and we have a few other things planned before she needs to get back to work. One, is just us going on a date to one of the historical towns lying around Aarhus, called Ebeltoft. I love this little gem of a town and she's agreed to drive there on a pleasant day and maybe eat an ice cream and have lunch or something and play tourists. The other thing is visiting my parents which isn't something I really want to do, but to keep the peace it's necessary. Maybe one day this will be different, one way or the other, but for now... Yeah.

I hope to be a little more online here over the rest of the summer. There has just been a lot of emotionally draining things up to vacation time and when I feel pressured that way, I tend to go into RP-escapism mode. It's not an apology, because I know that isn't needed, but I realize it's a pattern and I'm acknowledging that.

I love RP'ing and there are periods where it's easier, more comfortable, so that's what I do. But I miss writing "my own things" (I consider the Omina novel my own thing, it's inspired by Omina but probably less fanfiction than, like, an original story with Greek myth themes or something) and focusing on that. I hope to do more of that over late summer and fall this year.

That is the long-term plan. Now that I know I can do it.