sunfright | saturday.

November is over. I managed to write 40k words in just under two weeks, so I'm very pleased with my progress.

At this point, I'm 13-ish scenes from finishing the 13 chapters I have planned for this novel, and I'm only now beginning to feel some fatigue. I still try not to reread, edit and worry too much about what I've already written and it does help, just to always keep going, but this morning especially I've been feeling that fear of 'it probably all sucks'. Yet, I keep on writing. I want this done, damn it.

I'm visiting a friend today, so more writing has to wait till tonight. Which is fine, we're needing somewhat of a transitional scene this time and those are the hardest ones for me to write, takes more work, both research-wise and just language-wise, so I think it's fine I take it tonight when I might have been able to put some of these writer's worries behind me and thought about something else for a while.

Yesterday was a bit crazy. K. and I both deep-cleaned the apartment and put up our X-mas tree (plastic, we reuse every year) and I had to cook dinner for us, so I was completely wiped afterwards. Still, the X-mas tree is so nice, full of baubles and our various decorations and lights, so it shines like a night sky as soon as it goes dark outside.

It's also the season for a lot of candlelight, so we go through a lot of tealights and candles at the moment, but it's so worth it with how cozy our living room looks at night. I usually take my computer into the living room (where I normally sit in the office) after six in the evening, and just sit there writing, surrounded by lights on all sides.

Also, K. has written me an X-mas calendar with 24 little chapters, one for each day until X-mas Eve, where we celebrate X-mas in Denmark, and it's a La Sylphide fanfic! It's in Danish, otherwise I would've shared, but it's so good. I just read the second chapter this morning and it's excellent, so atmospheric, poetic and just... ugh, I love my girlfriend so much. She's a keeper and she's the best.

Denmark got buried in a lot of snow over the past two days, well, 'a lot' by our standards and traffic has been a bit crazy since, due to snow on the roads, but it's very pretty and white outside, snow falling every so often throughout the day. I'm really enjoying it.

Hopfully, I'm hitting 50k tonight or tomorrow and will be a little closer to being finished with this thing. Then, I'll start sharing snippets!