w41 sunday review (in which I uploaded The Pool In The Fen)

things i meant to do and did:

• touched grass!
• stayed in the writing phase:
  • finished the tinker's second pack and posted it,
  • finished the pool in the fen, which had stalled at two-weeks-from-finished for four years. it's 25k words, so it's an epub on books.
  • outlined at 1000 word level what i think is going to be November's 50k attempt. there's a dragon.
• phone off and in the knife drawer Friday evening
• sewed up a ripped dressing gown, a ripped hoodie, and a ripped pair of trousers. which I realise makes it sound like I'm in some sort of fashion fight club. my dogs are stronger than they look, is all.
• wrapped propagation medium on three nodes of the big monstera, hoping they'll root so i can snip off three free plants.

rating the week from my habit tracker:

that looks less impressive. 3, 4, 5, 3, 5, 4 - out of ten per day. nobody's very brushed, nothing's very tidy.

other matters:

I was in fiction mode all week so I didn't do any of the course notes on rock terminology & 'geological time'. It's fine. I'm not behind.

spent most of my normal reading time rereading what I'd written, trying to hunt down continuity errors, typos, & whatnot. so I have six library e-books which need to be prioritised & read deliberately before they e-return themselves next week.

I've been typing into novlr (that isn't a referral link, I actively don't want the pro version) which is great because you simply cannot fiddle with the layout. There isn't a layout. It's just the flow of your typing. Everything else gets out of your way. All the professional carbuncles of the full-on word processors aren't there & you never needed them. iawriter and dabble do similar things but for whatever reason novlr has been the one that worked for me.

I have turned smart quotes on now but, for the section of Fen I had written in some other app & it had typewriter quotes, calibre's 'edit book' was the quickest & smoothest way of fixing them.

↑ this is a very pleasant background for writing

↑ this is also enjoyable, though everyone in its comments is depressed

I am late to Critical Role but I've been watching the compilations and I think I get it. They've just started the fourth game (season? series? world?), so that's my Monday evenings for the foreseeable.

intents for w42:

• continue to touch grass (weeding, tidying the garden for winter)
• continue to put words in order
• post about my course, because it isn't intrinsically interesting but reframing it might be.