sunfright | thursday.

And NaNoWriMo was kicked into motion.

I had a good, but busy and long November 1st where I got the first 2000 words written and finished my first scene! Generally happy with the writing, but can feel I'm clinging a bit to what I know, Claude as a character being a voice I'm very used to working with. Next section is from Anatole's PoV and I'm nervous on the verge of apprehensive about getting started on that, so there's a hurdle I need to get over.

I was also at a write-in yesterday, meeting up with other local WriMos, which was anxiety-provoking but also exciting. They all knew each other already, which made some old bullying traumas rear their ugly heads, but I actually managed to temper it down and enjoy myself regardless. Stayed for two hours, then had to get home in pouring rain. It was almost eight pm. when I finally made it to our front door, soaked. K. had a late day as well and we met for tea and chatting before I went to bed early.

I've signed up to host a write-in at the same place we did it yesterday, the local library, on the 9th of November and hope some people will show. If not, I'll take it as an opportunity to just get a few hours of writing time by myself, that'd be okay, too.

I finished As We Exist by Harchi and actually cried at the last few pages of the book. It's very moving, was very touchingly written. Her perspective is so tender and yet, unforgiving. She points fingers where they need to be pointed. This is one of those reads that I'm extremely grateful to have spend time and energy on and I'll remember it for a long time to come.

Next up, "Towards a New Socialism" by Thomas Piketty, whose other works I saw randomly (or not so randomly, really, I just recognised the name and went: I see you) featured in a scene of Lupin which I have started watching. Really amazing series. I know nothing about the source material, but just the production quality of this series is so good on its own? I love it. I also ship everything. I'm halfway through season 2.

Tomorrow I'll try to take a day off, as much as I can with therapy around noon. No staying in town for too long, just directly home.

K. and I are talking about RP'ing in the evening as well as writing, so I need to collect spoons for that before she gets home. I've got a head start at my NaNo wordcount, so if I don't manage to write anything tomorrow, that's fine, I won't need to catch up too much in the coming days and over the weekend. At least, K. has said she's going into town to write my Christmas calendar on Saturday, so I might go with her and we can both work on each ours. I love those mornings we spent in cafés, writing.

Also, did my check-in with

smallfandombang, so all that is taken care of!