Weekly writing progress:
6100 words in the last week on the third short story. I'm not certain how long this one will be, but I suspect more than the ~10k of the previous two, which would push this into novella territory, but we'll label that bridge when we cross it.
Still waiting on the initial concepts for the first cover. Once I have the cover, my plan is to have a very simple cover made for my first short story, The Eye, and book funnel that to people while setting up some ARC readers for the first book, The Will of The World.
What I've been up to:
We started The Brothers Sun on netflix and we're having a really good time with it. It's a fun blend of comedy and entertainingly choreographed fight scenes. Michelle Yeoh is great in anything I see her in, and this is no exception.
We continue to watch Reacher which is also fun, though the part about finding someone's IP address from their gamertag seemed like a stretch. The show is a cheese fest, if I'm being honest, but one that holds our attention, so we'll keep watching it. There's something to be said about relaxing into a simple story with almost no moral ambiguity. Also, big man punch things good.
Lastly, the new season of Rupaul's Drag Race is out and it's shaping up to be an entertaining cast. Dawn is my favorite so far, but we'll see. With Canada wrapping up here and UK vs The World starting... there is rarely a week where we don't spend at least an hour and a half on some iteration of drag race.
I'm 70% of the way through The Shadow Rising. The fourth book in The Wheel of Time (WoT). My strategy was to read three, then take a break, and then read three, and then take a break... but this book is significantly longer than the ones that came before. So I'll be taking a break to read 1-2 other books before moving right on to the fifth book. Despite Jordan's character work being significantly better as the books go on, they all still come off a little wooden. Also, everyone in the story has this very, very strong impulse to contrast men and women as if they are different species, and it's a world view I find tiresome and boring. Conflicts that arise out of it are so annoyingly simple to solve, that to watch characters struggle interpersonally because of it is more aggravating and frustrating than entertaining. Even with that, though, there are moments of really clever dialogue and, despite how long the book is, the pacing is better than the previous books (though still not great).
Outside of Overwatch, the game I'm currently playing is called Shadow Gambit. It's a pretty niche title that's all about stealth tactics and setting up Rube Goldberg machines of violence in order to achieve your goal. I play it with a heavy heart, however, as the company that makes these games (there's three of them) is shutting down. As high quality as the games are, they don't have mass appeal.
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