Weekly writing progress:
4000 words in the last week on the third short story. I have maybe 1k more words to finish it which I will get done this weekend. I've spent time brainstorming solutions for wrapping things up in the third novel and pondering changes to the blurb for the first book which has distracted me from working on the short.
Initial concepts for the cover of the first book are coming along. I've sent back for a second revision of the initial sketch and I'm pleased with how it's looking.
What I've been up to:
TV
I finished Hilda (Netflix animated series), and It was so so so good. If you have a child and you have a Netflix subscription you should absolutely sit down and watch it with them. It's a beautifully drawn world with a focus on exploration and growing up. 5/5 stars.
We finished The Brothers Sun, and it didn't end as good as it started, though Michelle Yeoh is great throughout. The plot just gets a bit too messy and wraps up too cleanly with a lot of things overlooked for me. The script is both weak at points and extremely strong in others. Every once in a while they'll hit you with a line that's excellent. The action was pretty solid throughout as well. It's a pretty dang good show.
Reacher report: Meh. The actors are trying to hold it together at this point, and they're doing a decent job. I did like the fight sequence in the most recent episode, but some of the cheese in the script is beginning to go bad. Some of the moments just feel very, very forced.
Second episode of Ru Paul's drag race was entertaining, but I don't think Megami will last long (though she seems like a wonderful person) and Plain Jane is someone I want to go home right away, but she is drama and the show loves that (who am I kidding, I love that) so she will probably be there for quite a long time. She definitely has the polish, but there is no rudemption arc that can occur which will change my mind that the way she's treating the game and her fellow queens is anything but terrible. I don't tune in to watch people screw each other over. The contest, IMHO, is supposed to crown the most deserving queen, and when you let the queens decide winners/losers the process selects for assholes, not talent.
Books
I'm almost done with The Shadow Rising, the fourth book in The Wheel of Time (WoT), and I'm right at the climax. I'm still enjoying it, but the length of the book is... I mean one WoT book is an entire trilogy from another series. They're a lot, and it's a very long time to wait for the climax of the novel. That said, there has been plenty of action and intrigue. I'm thinking I'll read A Monster Calls next, and then Nettle & Bone before hopping back into the fifth book.
Games
I'm in act 3 of Shadow Gambit. Mimimi games proved with this one that they are the absolute masters of stealth tactics, though I don't like that you can only take three characters on a mission (though there is basically no way to balance the game with more than three). It's a shame the developer is going out of business.
A friend bought me Against the Storm on Steam and I'm enjoying it so far, but I fear it's going to be too "crunchy" for me the further I get into it. We'll see.
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