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I'm here I promise.

Just been feeling quiet.

And dealing with robot babies. No biggie.

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Ah... making... *checks* Making mead together and then having some sandwiches.

listen. if your characters aren’t emotionally destroying each other in the name of plot development, then what are they even doing?

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So what new projects is everyone else working on?

I got a comic

I need to distract myself

I don't think it's working

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It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

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Ok. Lemme math this a bit.

so we have 80,000 words per book (I'm assuming not the shorter novels Ok OP?) and 9000 books.

so 80,000 x 9000 = 720,000,000 words.

Ok it's a lot BUT let's assume you are doing 20,000 words a week (this is in part assuming you will be revising during these weeks. I understand your personal word count may be higher)

so, 720,000,000 / 20,000 = 36000 weeks

ok and that is with 52 weeks in a year

sooooo 36,000 / 52 = 692.3 years to write all those books....

hrm. Well that word count is a bit low. So lets assume you have at least 50 years of writing in ya OP.

This time 9000 / 50 = 180 books a year.

Which with the assumption of 80,000 x 180 = 14,400,000 words a year.

Hrm.

OP I'm not gonna tell ya you can't. Because I don't know your personal limits. Or if you might live long because of science. I will say that is a big goal and I'm going to be over here rooting for ya because I know I probably can't do it.

So you go out there and try your best for the rest of us, blaze the path and remember to drink plenty of water and stretch every 20 minutes.

i really need people to stop telling me i cant write 9000 books in my lifetime like i really dont need your negativity

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I just wanna say even writing and posting it somewhere can be a sanity saver. I need to go back and add to the Addams Family pic I did ages ago but sometimes, when I'm in a sad mood and feel like no one cares about my writing? I open my email and then...

(BTW BadKarma000 this made my day when I was having "a oh we are struggling with depression maybe?" start of a day)

It's nice and it means a lot.

So... write the fan fiction. Go read the fan fiction. Comment and kudos or whatever the ones you like.

That is all.

fanfiction truly being the savior for everyones sanity

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The Inkies! That's a thing.

Tapas is doing a brand new award called the INKIES! Help us win the award and all the praise that comes with it by nominating our titles for the following categories. 

Yes we are doing Godly Feast twice. Shhhhh.

Please go on and nominate these stories today!

If you don't trust the link go to the tapas website. They got it there. Username is Rodimus13

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What if I had a secret project I was working on...? Would people even want to see it...? 😔👀

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It's so pretty :)

What if I had a secret project I was working on...? Would people even want to see it...? 😔👀

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This is me.

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look OP it is too early in the morning to be called out like this.

Can we try this again mid afternoon? Maybe with some tea and cookies and our drafts handy to discuss?

why do writers write? because therapy is expensive and world domination isn’t socially acceptable.

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I'm sorry... what?

So the contest novel right? I wrote a lot of chapters during that contest. over 20 that were over 1500 words each. And then I wrote a bunch more because wait if I won... buffer.

I mean I teach you think I'll have that time on demand?

So now I'm working on getting this like book and kindle ready.

how...

the fuck...

did I get ...

176 pages?!

I mean ok part of that is me making it pretty formatting wise. Separating the chapters but that only added like... 20 pages I think at most.

I started this book in AUGUST. I haven't really touched it save for edits since NOVEMBER.

....at least this means I can take good breaks between books I guess? Cause this is like book 1 of 8

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Yeah I'ma doin this in my book. Don't you worry.

It's a whole flipping plot point even.

Gotta get the special spices and then do a. dry rub and smoke over the holy volcano magma/lava (don't ask me which yeah I haven't decided. That's all in book 3)

you know how most of the things humans use as spices are poisonous or repellent to most other mammals? and you know how anything vaguely d&d inspired has dwarves being way more poison resistant than even humans?

dwarf cuisine shouldn’t be bland, it should be unimaginably spicy and potentially harmful or fatal to humans. like green potato and rhubarb leaf salad with a festive garnish of yew berries and deadly nightshade berries, that kind of thing.

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And the winners were....

Not me.

I all seriousness at the bottom I'll have the link to the winners so y'all can check them out if you like.

So... what is next you might be asking?

...look at that face? You think Enoki gonna let me quit or give up?

Nah. Ze's gonna let me have a cry (cause losing is always sad, and we are allowed our feelings), help me up, and we move forward.

Namely

Y'all.

I got 8 books planned.

And we have the content for book one done.

And I have trapp- er... married an artist.

So we are gonna make this into a e-book and a physical book.

We are gonna publish Enoki as a YA.

And if you think I'm not hounding library review journals and bookstores and the like?

Trust me. I'm going for it.

Meantime. Go enjoy the things.

(like my story)

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Here we go

Last update before the contest announcement tomorrow. Regardless if the novel wins or loses I hope you will all join me in celebrating the winners!

(and if I don't win, I'm making it a proper E-book and physical book)

Meanwhile, Enoki has to eat and run. Let's catch up.

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a conversation from this morning

hubby: ... you know the guy in the purple onesie and black face mask. The Phantom?

me: uhm no? [looks it up] you know, this screenshot reminds me of that... Thunderjock. Captain? Captain Thunderjock.

Hubby: what?

me: From Jingle All The Way. The superhero.

Hubby: [staring intensifies] ... you mean Turboman. ... but I guess. he's got the Flash's colors, and symbol is a lightning bolt and he's built like a jock.... and everything is just 'Captain' these days despite having no military rank. Captain Thunderjock.

me: yeah. that's a very "mom" thing to have done... If I were a mom, I would know the names of my kids' favorite superheroes and do it on purpose though.

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May I use this time to take a nap? If so I fully support it. I need that extra rest during the work day and would like to step into that pocket of time then.

it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.