#i've been sick since Sunday with a viral infection

[shungieshrieks]

I would be a millionaire with the number of times I said "Oh yeah. Fuck yeah, let's GOOOO" with every fight scene in the new Castlevania series

[mcalhenwrites]

I didn't expect to struggle so much with these Geckos side stories. Two of them have been finished for years - I wrote them not long after the first draft of Geckos - but I'm struggling with the ones focused on Kieran. One of them is "Late Returns" - I need to finish it. But doing that has been tricky for some reason. This happened with Xavier stories too, but it's hard for me to always keep up with the same humor of a story for long? And that one has a lot of humor. The other Kieran story is when he's an adult. I may just have to shorten it. The Rosalia one is kind of messy, but I'm not too worried about it. That said, I was supposed to finish all the drafts by the time June ended, and I didn't. Even though I can bring my laptop to work and write when there aren't any tasks/clients in. (I may have read four chapters of Reverie and gone back to the grooming area to pet the dogs Sunday instead of writing much on my laptop, which needs replaced badly after seven years of loyal service. I'm gonna cry when I retire this one.) I've also been sick since Monday, which... apparently, my boss has the same thing as I do. (Not covid or strep, but the doctor said that it's some kind of viral infection that turned into tonsilitis, and uh, now I think it's a sinus infection.) So I haven't been writing much. Just editing Seasons and posting that, which does require some writing, but... yeah. Not much on Geckos. And I need to publish this sometime in August, so I think I'm gonna work on some of that later today. First I wanna do some reading, since I haven't been reading lately. I got two books for my birthday that I haven't even touched, and I finally picked up Reverie after snagging it on sale on kindle for $2 a while back. I also promised to write my roommate a fic for their birthday, and I do want to tackle those prompts in my inbox. (Though I'm mostly saving those for weekends when I'm writing at work, though I've basically worked on them whenever I please lol) So much to do. I better haul ass, esp with needing a new writing laptop and saving for the car (and all that comes with that).