Weekly writing progress:
My book officially released! It feels so good to have it out there in the world now. A big, big thank you to everyone who bought it! And an even bigger thank you to those that have posted reviews :)
The cover for the second book is almost done. We're in the coloring phase and I just sent it back for a minor adjustment. Once that's done it's just a matter of finishing up my final edits and doing all the back end stuff to send it out to the ARC readers and get it up on Amazon and blah blah, boring stuff. I'll have a bunch of boring stuff to do with it.
I'll reveal the cover at the same time I reveal the release date on both my facebook and my Instagram
What I've been up to:
TV
I finished Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. The second season was less impressive for me because, while I love a good tournament/exam arc, I thought the way this one was implemented in the story was thematically inappropriate. I feel like it ended well, and I'm still very much looking forward to the next season.
I started Solo Leveling. I know I'm going to like it if for no other reason than the progression fantasy of it all. I will say the main character, in the two episodes I've watched, lacks a lot of depth. It's a character I've seen done a million times and I'm a bit sick of it. Extremely Nice Guy tm with no skills to speak of but mountains of bravery is granted the power/ability to ascend through the ranks in society. The monsters and world are really cool, though.
We finished Tokyo Vice season 2 and I really liked where they left things. I thought all the characters had a nice little bow tied on them, but the show still left the door open for another season. Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi stole the show for me this season.
Other than that, we've just been watching a bunch of Drag Race. :)
Books
The Fires of Heaven continues to be quite good. I'm liking it far more than The Shadow Rising. I'm happy with the pacing and there seems to be real character progression with Moiraine and Egwene especially. I do have a bone to pick, though, about Elayne's character having a crush on the man she thought of as a father figure when she was a child, and how RJ passed this creepy impulse off as normal-ish. It's one thing to have a young character that's "into" older people (that's completely fine), but it's another thing to intentionally have it be a father figure who dated the character's mother, and then to pass it off as normal-ish using Jung's elektra complex as an explanation. I don't remember this from my original read through of this novel, and it is a bit unsettling.
Games
Playing Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, and it continues to be really good. I am starting to see how the reviews say there is *too* much side stuff you need to do. Many of the mini games are tedious and a lot of it is forced down your throat. I'm still loving the game, though. Otherwise, I've just been playing Overwatch 2.
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