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My favorite Shakespeare thing is when he writes a major plot point but just has someone tell us about it to save on special effects.

Hamlet gets kidnapped by pirates but we don’t see that part. It’s a letter.

The Oracle of Delphi shows up in the Winter’s Tale and rather than do all the special effects required to make that adequately supernatural, two guys come on stage and go “woah that was cool”

There’s a big storm on the night that Duncan is murdered and we learn about this when half the cast of Macbeth says “sure was stormy last night”

Shakespeare, the OG low-budget director taking the easy way out.

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Just figured out a software that could quite possibly allow me to use a PNGtuber to POSSIBLY stream. I like having privacy and just don’t want my face out there, so I MIGHT do that. I haven’t decided yet though.

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Ok so I finished three short scenes and almost got to 75k, so I’m pretty proud of myself! I got 35 min of my hour goal, but I’m gonna stop for now. Don’t want to risk getting frustrated. Just gonna wait for my ‘drafting’ candle to burn evenly and then I’ll blow it out. In the meantime, I might work on the script for my podcast.

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Ok, so my tiny drafting candle has met its maker, so now I get to light a new one. This one is sea mist!

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I have not written in two days bc a) little sleep and b) work, but I am sitting down with an old stream with my fave productivity streamer so wish me luck! Hopefully I get a rhythm and momentum going.

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yes, meet my boyfriend benson ^_^

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So I made a schedule for myself to keep to tomorrow in regards to an experiment I'll hopefully be conducting. I'll keep you updated as I work it out!

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God, I can't tell you how much the "there's not enough enrichment in my enclosure" joke has helped my mental health. Because, for some reason I can't comprehend, pretending that I'm a zoo keeper caring for an animal (which is also me) just makes everything easier to comprehend. Like "Your head gets screwey when you're apartment is messy" just doesn't carry as much resonance as "The tiger becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered" because then I'll be like, no shit? The tiger? I've gotta keep things nice and clean for the tiger.

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I think dudes who say shit like “I couldn’t love a child that wasn’t mine” shouldn’t have kids

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literally what is the point of christian guilt if you refuse to eroticize it. waste of narrative potential

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poor old granny scorpion-shoes. no one ever saw her death coming

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benson hand compilation i made a while ago. for normal reasons

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I passed 70k in my manuscript! I'm so excited because the low end of my genre is 80k, and I have a bunch more scenes to write so I'll definitely hit that! I've only written in the spots for two and a bit scenes when I have thirty-three spots and then more developmental stuff after that.

I'm enjoying this revision process a lot.

In other happy news, I'm burning down my 'drafting' candle almost to the end, so that means I get to choose a new drafting candle! I'm thinking sea mist.

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I also managed to figure out Scrivener enough that I got the wordcount at the top to match my actual wordcount. (Definitely not Pro) Tip: the software only counts words in the 'draft' folder you start with. If you have a separate 'scene' folder, like I do, move that into the 'draft' folder and it will count towards the wordcount.

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I also decided which of my many, many candles should be my 'drafting' candle. I had lit one for my re-ordering, so that will become my 'editing' candle. Hopefully the different scents will help get me in the different headspace those tasks require.

Yes, I know. I'm very particular.