Nonesensed's writing corner

Had a great vacation visiting the family up north! Good movies, great food and lovely nature walks 💖 I'm full of inspiration and creative energy 🥰

Nightmare mode is still active at work until May, but I only work Wednesday to Friday this week and Monday to Wednesday next week, due to national holidays and extra vacation days (because of So Much Overtime). Going to try and still get not-work done in the next three days, for the sake of my mental health.

Here's a quick to-do list for myself this week, so I don't Just Work
[ ] Try out the new outlining technique on a new writing project, to see if it's the thing for me
[ ] Gush about writing projects, because that's fun 😁
[ ] Do a basic clean-up of the apartment 'cause it's rather chaos right now
[ ] Set up a food plan for the coming weeks so I can save some money on groceries
[ ] Set up a "game plan" about my literal video games 😆
[ ] Go to the LARP planning meeting on Sunday
[ ] Go through "stuff" both digitally and physically to see what I should put on my future to-do lists...

Last year went fairly well, so here's the list for 2024 :D

My only regret from last year is that I didn't get much writing done – or rather, I wrote a fair share of words, but I didn't finish anything beyond writing a Yuletide fic and reaching the word count for NaNoWriMo. Thus, this year I'm aiming to prioritize writing. We'll see how that goes XD


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( Video Games to Finish )


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( Youtube Catch-up )


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( D&D stuff )

I do what I can to stay up to date on all the awful things happening out in the world, so I can do what I can (e.g. donate to decent organizations and vote/protest when needed), buuuuut the news right now are just...

Yeah.

Doomscrolling helps no one. I'm going to try and focus on more light-hearted things here online. Just wanted to leave this comment for myself to read one day when I'm going through my archives, so I remember I didn't completely ignore the world - only wanted the occasional break from worrying about things I've already tried to help out with as much as a single person who isn't a high-up politician and/or billionaire can :/

I've been going through my writing projects and have several ones I'm still very hyped to keep working on <3 Will try and make posts about each project in the upcoming...days? Weeks? We'll see what work allows (work has, as I'm sure has come across in my previous latest entries, been A Lot). Would really love to get the brain power to actually work on some writing before this weekend is over - I really miss writing!

Saw an interesting horror/dark-fantasy movie the other day, btw. A Dark Song, about a woman attempting an extreme ritual to talk to her guardian angel. It had a very "Neil Gaiman's Sandman" feel to it.

Also, moving my "to watch, maybe"-list here from the year goal list, since watching isn't so much a "completion" thing as it's an "for fun,whenever" thing:

( Things to watch )

My goal for this year - and it's a soft goal because I don't want to go the burnout route of many previous years in my life - is to actually finish at least one of the *checks notes* five nearly-finished novels I've got here on my laptop.

And by nearly-finished, I mean they're only missing one or two chapters before they're officially a full draft. I'm soooo close on so many of them, and yet...

They of course need plenty more rewrites, all of them, but it'd feel so nice to at least have one whole draft of a book after all the hard work I've put in already. So here's a little mini-list for myself to keep in mind before I go starting yet more long-term projects (of which I already have waaaay more than five XD):


Nearly finished novels
[ ] A Werewolf in October (accidental!werewolf urban fantasy story with found family feels and set-up for f/f & m/m romance that will pay off in a later book...if I ever get that far XD)
[ ] Equilibrium and Professor Balance (superhero BDSM-femdom-flavored f/m erotica with way more plot than first planned)
[ ] Mages and Marriage (m/m former!BFFlovers-to-enemies-to-fake-marriage-to-lovers-again fantasy/romance/erotica with a murder mystery side-plot)
[ ] Of Elves and Dwarrows 1 - Soul-Stealing Elves (a fairly classic fantasy tale with some steampunk elements and a plot focused on culture clashes, prejudice and dealing with miscommunication, romance of all kinds, and ending a war)
[ ] Secrets in Ice (illustrated steampunk-y action/adventure fantasy story that I'm co-writing with my sister, about two sisters trying to rescue a kidnapped brother and all the obstacles they climb over to catch up with his kidnappers)


A Werewolf in October is the closest to being "readable", so I've got parts of it up on my writing blog. It's on draft 5 now, heading into draft 6, and I think I'll stop at 7. I'm only one person with 0 beta readers and I'm not looking to publish professionally, so I can only polish my stories so far. Just want to have a fun time writing - I post my stories online so I can share them with friends :) If anyone gets curious and takes a peek at what I've got thus far, please keep this in mind while reading XD

In other news, my healthy eating is really going great! :D

( Beware the talk of food and weight below this cut! )

Starting to realize I've set myself up with waaaay too much to do about in my now plentiful free-time. I mean, I'm managing both NaNoWriMo and memorizing all my lines and songs for the LARP on Saturday (+ wrote yet another song today), and I'm still stressing to finish things that I really don't have to rush.

Thus, I'm revising my writing list a bit, to stop messing up my back and brain over something that's not an actual problem.

( Writing-list this way )