Weekly writing progress:
I finished the rough of the third short story and I'm now in a limbo of sorts where there's no "book tasks" for me to do.
I'm bottle necked.
I have a second paid beta looking at my second novel before I can do my final, personal, pass on it. I'm waiting until I finish my last pass on book two before I start the long job of editing book three. The cover artist got me a sketch that I've approved for book one, and now I'm set to wait for them to color/shade and finish. Most of my behind the scenes stuff requires the book cover to be completed before I should get started on them (Amazon upload, book funnel for my short).
So I'm on a writing "vacation" of sorts which feels odd after going almost two years without. I could do more research on ads, but I feel like I've learned as much as I'm going to be able to until I start actually trying to do them.
What I've been up to:
TV
I started Love Death + Robots, and I'm enjoying that. As with all shows like this my enjoyment can vary from episode to episode, but most of them are really cool. And thus far ALL of them are visually amazing.
Finished Reacher. I fear it's going to be just like Jack Ryan in that it will always be something I watch, but never something I really like all that much. The acting is good and some of the fight choreo was pretty dang good too.
Third episode of RuPaul's Drag race was great. Very entertaining ball episode and I loved a lot of the looks the queens made.
The husband and I have started Hazbin Hotel and it is amazing. The voice acting is wonderful, the animation style is whimsical and somehow manages to be both saccharine AND dark. Thoroughly enjoying it so far.
Books
I finished the fourth book in The Wheel of Time, The Shadow Rising. I feel like I hear a lot of chatter about how it's one of the better books, but I have to say I only thought it was ok. It's like I remembered, overlong with some serious pacing issues. The book is almost 400k words which is the equivalent of 4 other books.
I've just barely started A Monster Calls, and it's nice to read Patrick Ness' prose again so shortly after reading More Than This. I really love the way he writes.
Games
Shadow Gambit took a back burner to Pal World which has now eaten a bunch of my time. The game lacks serious polish, but it's still a fun playground to run around in.
Against the Storm did indeed end up being too crunchy for me. I may approach it again later, but I doubt I'll spend serious time on it.
I will be on vacation next week, so no update. Not that anyone is reading these, yet (or ever), but I'm gonna keep doing them to build the habit of focusing on social media stuff every Friday.
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