I did... some stuff!!!

Jul. 31st, 2025 02:46 am
tyger: Personalised image-manip of a Rogue of Light.  (Homestuck) (Rogue of Light)
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Managed to sleep most of the daylight hours away yet again, and there's something up with my ear so I had a nap this evening TOO, but at least it's not hurting any more.

Anyway even though I was too late to go clean the chook coop as planned - they were already in bed, heh - I DID do that last bit of paint stripping, so that's something. Hopefully tomorrow will be all the rest of the sanding, but we'll see how long it takes to clear off the bench, I guess.

Back to bed for me! Hopefully I'll be over whatever it is tomorrow!

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I'm working my way through the list of edits I prepared during the beta preps phase for the Cursed Witch. Currently smack bang in the middle of the structural changes. It was incredibly hard to get started and find a system for juggling that many changes, but I think I'm finding my feet. Scrivener's "floating Quick Reference" to have more than 2 window panes open has been invaluable... I have my general "Structural Edits" file open that way (including the notes, which is basically a more concise summary + some ideas on how to handle the changes, as there are a lot more details and brainstorming in the file itself). Then I have one or two scenes open in my main window as I move things around and think about the impact. Plus the notes and comments for each file.

I think there's probably only one change that is truly "structural" with cascading changes. The other ones I had listed are also chunky, but once I had decided "where" to make the change (like, move that scene to chapter X, or raise the stakes in preceding chapters X-Y) by the end of the beta preps, it feels like it'll be fine to handle later in the chapter-by-chapter edits.

I wasn't planning to wait this long to start making these changes. I was doodling with fic, working on my assignment and editing old fics from last year, wondering what I was waiting for. Then one morning, my brain went "It Is Time, My Self" and so I opened the Scrivener file, flailed for a bit, then slowly started to figure out a system for how to even handle structural changes at this late stage.

Once I got properly started, I had a hunch. I counted back the weeks on my calendar: 6 weeks, again. When something needs to bake, that seems to be the way. It makes me a bit nervous because I haven't been able to work on the Soul Thief while this is ongoing, but I think in the future it'll be easier to switch between projects while all that background simmering is going on. It's just that the Cursed Witch is my first novel-sized project and definitely a "learning experience." So my brain kind of resists working on another novel while I know there is still significant learning to be done from the Cursed Witch, that could and should also apply to the Soul Thief.

...I think. I mean, there will always be learning.

Meanwhile the story is changing, not unexpectedly. I'm not sure what I think as I look at the changes rippling through the story. One such change made me realise "this impacts the ending" and so that has changed a bit as well. I think this is all making the story better overall? But it's also no longer the story I initially told. The story seems stronger but also less cathartic for me. I still want to see this through. I need to see the final result to decide if I went too far with the changes.

In the end though, my initial motivator for writing this story was "Can I finish a long project?" which is not exactly a strong narrative theme so... maybe it's particularly okay for things to change in this story. And I like what the new changes are saying! I've said before, sometimes I worried a little bit about what the story was turning out to be saying in places. (That bit is still there 😂) The new bits are definitely more in alignment with the kind of stories I enjoy.

But it's still not what I originally wrote, and at the moment it feels jarring. My gut feeling is definitely that I should continue and push through regardless. There should be really interesting learning on the other side.

Okay fall over now

Jul. 30th, 2025 05:24 am
tyger: Roxas, from Deep Dive.  Text: 戦う (Roxas - 戦う)
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Soooo it turns out I'm not actually done with the stripping, there's a piece we repaired and set aside for the glue to fully dry that I then forgot about orz orz orz. Soooo gotta do that. Was hoping to clear off the workbench today but Sibling asked me to mop the floor this afternoon and then I just kind of pancaked until it was dark out, whoops.

We DID go and pick out a stain colour before that, though, so at least that's done! (Sibling is researching if it can be found in a larger size somewhere, though, because we apparently need ~4L and the largest tin they had was 1L. And it was. Expensive. So even a minor bulk discount would be very appreciated.)

Anyway I got distracted reading fic which is mostly why I'm up so late (also there is a cat in my lap), but I'm gonna be stronk and also very gently move said cat and go! The fuck! To bed!!! Yes.

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