Update for 10 February 2024
(originally posted 10 Feb 2024)
I am still plugging along here. Every time I meet with my physio I go in being excited about the progress I’ve made, only to be given new and challenging torture, I mean ankle exercises, to do for the next couple of weeks. That said, I am still excited about the progress. Now I can toddle around without crutches, which is amazing. Having to use your hands to walk with crutches makes it impossible to do anything else with your hands. Necessity being the mother of invention, I figured out that cardigan sweater pockets were perfect for my water bottle and coffee thermos. Anyway, no more of that for me! 🕺
Picture of all the things I don't need anymore:
Output - What I’m Writing
The Destroyer - up to 5,600 words drafted so far 🎉
Picture of writing from this week (zoom in for a sneaky peaky):
Status of Works
Gem Finder - awaiting my revisions 🫠
Ancient History - with my editor ✍️
Star Augur - on the back burner 🤔
Input - What I’m reading, watching, listening to, etc.
Reading:
The Queen of the Seas (The Pirate Queen Series Book 1) by James Fuller is turning into a grand adventure! 🏴☠️
About Writing by Gareth L. Powell (this guy is a champ by the way, he gave me a Bluesky code - you can find me here and him there, oh and you can now join without a code - check it out if you want to replace Twitter ).
Just arrived:
The Famine Witch by Stephen Black (also my editor). It arrived in the post yesterday, and I’m excited to get started! 🧙
Watching:
Previously Lancer and I would rotate through a whole bunch of different shows, it got kinda confusing and annoying. So, this past week we’ve only been watching two shows, one serious, the other we call a “dumb-dumb” show.
Superstore, our dumb-dumb show, which if anyone has seen it, knows it is exactly that. 🤪
Queen of the South, our serious show, which if anyone has seen it, knows it is very serious. I love the main character and the actress who plays her has an excellent deadpan. On the side, we are picking up a slew of Mexican swear words. 👹
Listening:
I am still listening to Twitch DJs, one of my current favorites is Mila Pietrak, who plays “Melodic House & Techno, Progressive House and Trance music”. 🎶
Coming up…
More writing! ✍️
If you would like to support my work (so I can pay my editor 😅), this week I will publish The Lot, the short story I gave a free snippet of last week on Ko-Fi! Stay tuned!
Cheers,
~Liriel