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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Lots to do today and not necessarily looking forward to it. That said, there are good things! Lovely things!

Last night I went to bed early and ended up rewatching a comfort food movie to go to sleep by. Hoosiers is still one of my top three to five favorites.

Lexember Word for the Day:

cherich • [ tʃɛ ɹitʃ ] or [ tʃɛ ɹiʔtʃ ] • ice cream, lit. the ice
noun form derived from an older form of the definite, before this construction would have been considered imprecative; some native speakers pronounce it in the imprecative with the "final" glottal stop and others have dropped the stop to treat it like an irregular definite noun
Language: Akachenti

I have to revisit phonology for this language. I thought I had my clicks nicely settled and basic phonotactics but it's amazing how easy and clear everything is one day, then sounds total different on re-analyzing it the next. And I'm not that great at phonetic analysis in the first place. :headdesk:

Interesting Articles Read:

Ken Liu and The Wall of Storms by Juliette Wade on Dive Into Worldbuilding

To fix or not to fix by Patricia C. Wrede

Interesting Fiction Read:

“The Mote-Dancer and the Firelife” by Chris Willrich in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Books I want:

A Rose Point Holiday by MCA Hogarth: I got a friendly little email telling me this one existed, and I'm a huge fan of her work. Technically I have a Scribd account and have also been paying for it for months when I couldn't figure out how to get it to work since my tablet refuses to successfully install the update the app keeps downloading. If I could get it to work, I might be able to get this one for free. Hmm...

Things I'm not Working on and Should Be

trovia's story - Just plain having some trouble on that front, i.e. hating and throwing out all the new words I've managed to get on it

my Yuletide story - canon review (costs money) and writing the story in the first place

Things I'm Still Working on and Had Hoped Would be Finished by Now

postcards - all set up to order and waiting on payday

book collections - one's all set up to order and waiting on payday, one is written but not done being set up, and the other for the family is... not done at all. Ack!

Writing for the Day

Epic fail. None. Our kitchen sink failed and it took me forever to clean. I passed out before I got any nonhousehold chores work done last night. :(

Still, not a bad day.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

On the sixth day of Lexember, I coined the word valus!

valus • /va lus/ • the way things are, as in ise valus, that's just the way it is
definite noun
Language: Akachenti

The definite form of this word is distinctly not valu, which means I have to figure out exactly what the rules are of making a noun definite besides just adding –s.

But on the bright side, I now have three definite nouns:

valus - the way things are

n|akos - the plan(s) that is definitely implemented or will be

a:gis - my parent/aunt/uncle

The only one that is indefinite by simply removing the s is a:gi.

At some point, I have to figure out a better way to document conlangs than anything I've been using. I just dug out a ton of material from my old papers that needs to be documented and left a good chunk I know I'm not going to get to. And that's existing conlangs. I don't want my new ones to turn out the same way and they're heading that direction. :(

Yesterday, I made actual progress on getting my one book collection for the year done (technically, two versions, one for geckoholic and one for my other friend), made no progress on getting trovia's story done (I am ashamed), and this morning, made progress again on writing the stuff I need to do for family and my columns (due monthly).

Also, wrote a poem today:

Brotherly Love (poem)

Who is my mother and my brother?
Who is the one I choose to love?
He who does My Word,
It is he that loves Me.
And he who loves Me, it is him I love.

Who is the child of My loving Father?
She who comes to me, I will accept.
Love her as I love her,
Treat her kindly.
What you do for her, I will accept.

So be kind to all that you encounter
And treat them with a holy, sincere love.
My Word is that you should
Love one another.
In doing this, you offer me Your love.

"Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently," – I Peter 1:22

Make that two:

Of Grace (poem)

If God my soul is gracious
to forgive in love,
what right to judge could I have?
I have no right to judge.

When I was still a child,
I chose to never be
a hypocrite, unsharing
of grace I have received.

So if God my soul is gracious
to forgive and love,
surely I must also
by strength and grace of God.

Got a threesome of characters I want to put into action: Miss Fiona Locke, Miss Samantha Kee, and Miss Amelia Weather, who all reside at Mrs. Grenstead's Boarding Home and Breakfast, where their names actually mean something. :twiddles thumbs: :doesn't say what: Unfortunately, other stories take precedence. I must ignore them.

For the record, I hate writer's block.

Good articles read:

Artistic Choice and Making Money by Dean Wesley Smith

Sales vs People vs Artistic Freedom by Dean Wesley Smith

Good fiction read:

Free Fiction Monday: Boz by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Aisling and the Whalecat by John W. Sexton

General state of the scribbler:

Incredibly tired. I was up until 1 o'clock in the morning doing smoke testing for work. Many people put in 12.5 hr workdays. I'm not usually one of them. Brain fried.

Generally pleased. I got stuff done, even if it wasn't the writing/extra-curricular stuff, so to speak. I even have a hope of writing the pieces required for that website. Right.

Health at 7.5 out of 10. I've been hovering barely above 5 with regular dips below lately, so I'm actually quite grateful for that number.

Lurking on most other sites/blogs/journals. Oops. I do try to chime in enough to remind people I care, but the truth is, I'm a little slow just now.

Behind on postcards/holiday stuff. This is largely due to budget. Next payday should fix that.

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Kind of feel like an awful person...

Pinch modding and sudden not feeling well along with cray hectic work issues conspiring to make me slower at everything, including beta I owe certain people who know who you are. I read it, I loved it, just can't make myself edit or finish writing my FGE letter in what few minutes I have to do it. I've been stealing almost all the time I have and I'm behind on chores, Sabbath prep, and just about almost everything.

Posted a couple fics I'd been sitting on. Makes it look like I've been goofing off this whole time, but I swear I have not.

Hope y'all are having a more peaceful time than I and apologies for anyone I'm keeping waiting.

Current Mood: grateful

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Feeling Better

I have a ton of catch up to do in reading, writing, work, and my other work because I was literally out sick for an entire week and pretty miserable 50% or more of the time until today.

So.

Got a fic done that was due tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. It's not quite what I wanted (they were up for an M rating and I was in the mood to write one, but no dice when the fingers finally scribbled), but it's good, I think and something they wanted and partially what I wanted, so I'm good with that.

Now a few more fics to write, a prompt masterlist to update, the EMAILS I haven't sent anybody, and two books to read.

:waves:

Throw me a rope every now and then, lest I drown. :cheerfully dives in:

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Caught Up... Ish

So my Do Now folder in my email is down to 9 read messages. I've finished a beta, replied, read, commented, and did not reply where train gone. Sorry for the time out sick. Still hopping at work but no more overtime all the time.

I won't be signing up for the WIP Big Bang though I really wanted to because I have officially hit overextended and cannot extend more if I know what's good for me. I'm just tired enough right now to enforce that.

Still not doing hot in the throat department (or energy) but I can force myself to function and I can think enough to start creating again. I'm a little behind on that, but there are plans.

So that's the update. Hope you all are doing fabulous. :blows kisses:

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Another Random Update Post

So Scribd doesn't just have Marvel comics (if not Hawkeye and Black Widow :grumbles ominously: ), but it also had the first 8 Tortall books. Needing a break this weekend from stress, I read all the ones I hadn't yet. Unfortunately, my immediate foray toward fanfic afterward was disappointing.

There wasn't a new episode of Nashville this last week. Not happy but at least the season's not over. Just must be patient.

I got in my noms for ficmountain.

I have two unrevealed exchange fics done and three assignments open, none of which are due this month.

Which means, I can focus on trovia's fic. It's been coming, but I kept headbanging on a couple sticking points in plot (the dreaded waterloo), and am now off to knuckle down and get it into an arc for the characters.