Nonesensed's writing corner

Seems my most powerful grief response is keeping crazy busy and diving into new fandoms. Since Alan Wake II just released I've gone deep into that and all other Remedy games I've always meant to play but never gotten around to. Might also be plotting a silly crackship fic starring Alex Casey and Doctor Darling from Control.

Still miss my cat horribly, but I'm getting to the acceptance stage.

In other news, NaNoWriMo is still going, despite my emotions being all over the place. Still like the story, but it's going to need so much editing from this mess of a first draft before it makes any kind of sense.

Soooo, the Swedish election went Awful, though that sadly didn't come as much of a surprise. The party with Nazi roots got 20% of the votes. Fuck.

BUT I can't do anything about that or the mess our government will be right now, so I'm trying to focus on positivity rather than tear my hair out. Thus, here's a little countdown (countup?) of fun things:

1) I've read two really great books of late! Several good ones, but one in particular that I'm adding the mental sticker "fandom" to and another that I suspect will reach that level of interest too once I've finished reading it. The one I'm definitely adding to my fandom list (really need to update that) is the Rook & Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick (found family, con artists with hearts of gold, political intrigue, magic, queernorm second world fantasy~!) and the one I'm also very much am enjoying is the Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine (science fiction about colonialism and also memory storage and first contact with aliens).

2) I've decided on my NaNoWriMo project for this November! I'm going for writing as many short story parts of "Once a Bard and His Friends Took a Train" as I can manage. I have way too many almost finished novels to edit already, I don't need yet another, so short stories it is XD I'm also feeling super hyped for this project so I think this will be a lot of fun :D

3) Yuletide nominations are soon upon us! The fandom promo post is already warming up and I'm trying to decide on which of my many small fandoms I want to nominate myself~! At the moment, I'm thinking about nominating:
- Definitely Rook & Rose - M. A. Carrick because I adore it (AO3 link)
- The Mechanisms album High Noon over Camelot because I need more canon space cowboys OT3 <3 (AO3 link)
- Still unsure of my number 3, might be Teixcalaan, might be Books of the Raksura, might be Dimension 20's A Court of Fey and Flowers - so many options!

4) I'm doing well at not overworking myself! I've "only" worked full time since I got back from my summer vacation and I've scheduled a week's worth of vacation in November too, as well as a long rest over Yule, since I really need to use up all those extra vacation days I've saved up <3

So yeah, lots of emotions right now, trying to focus on the positive ones <3

I took advice from a friend and focused on writing for fun so I could write more; 'lo and behold it's actually worked! I got to update my writing projects post today because I both named and 'published' a story in my new short story want-to-be-a-collection Once a Bard and His Friends Took a Train :D

The story itself is called Introductions Without Names and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :) Hoping to get the time to write more about the cast of that setting eventually, but first I will finish A Werewolf in October, I swear it to myself! XD

Btw, I have all the respect in the world for people who write to publish. It is insanely hard work and those who can do it - especially those who're also doing other jobs alongside the writing - are incredible! So me going "Ah, I'll just write for fun" is by no means meant as disrespect to people who're actual authors; I'm more what that person who bakes at home for fun and then gives cookies to her friends is to professional bakery owners <3

All my Yuletide nominations got accepted, yay! This means I get to wish for a fic from Let's Play CYBERPUNK RED - Polygon's Overboard (Web Series), Much Ado About Nothing (2011) and Sapphire & Steel :DDDD Time to start working on my Yuletide letter so I can finish sign-up!

Finally gotten through a rough time at work, aaaand I just finished my latest WIP fic (On the Subject of Nests and Happiness), so I'm hoping for a calmer time at work now so I can catch up with all fun stuff online again. My brain feels a bit squishy right now, but I'm feeling optimistic about both Yuletide and NaNoWriMo - November, here I come~!

( NaNo prep )

Because I'm procrastinating on NaNoWriMo. I'm soooo many words behind and I need to be done on the 27th, due to convention activities being on from the 28th to the 31st of July.