This week has been a blur and tomorrow is the first day I can actually settle down with a notebook. That means there’s going to be very little writing-based stuff in this post. I’d do a day-by-day, but I can’t remember exactly what happened Monday or Tuesday beyond the appointments. Think there was rain, so we hung out inside for a bit. Don’t quote me on any of that. Geez, what in the world happened this week?
A big part has been that my son has a lot of evening events. Martial arts is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening and swimming is Tuesday evening. He’s really into them and swimming ends in early September, which means it’s going to be martial arts 3 times a week. Hoping to keep that going even when he has school since the Saturday morning option won’t be around when he gets back into gymnastics. Keeping my eye on the clock and rushing around might be what’s got me worn down. Maybe the early part of the week really was a wash because of rain and fatigue.
The big day was Thursday though because we did a full day at the aquarium. Saw all the animals and even sat in on an introduction to hedgehogs. This was cool because one of them was an albino. Lunch did have a wrinkle because we were planning on ice cream, but everything was contaminated with nuts and the soft serve machine was busted. My parents had gotten their stuff before we learned all of this, so my son and I had to go hunting for ice pops. He found one and I had some dippin’ dots, which really didn’t hit the spot. That was the only wrinkle before my son decided that he didn’t want to go home and declared that he should be allowed to live at the aquarium. The parking lot is two blocks away, so I had the joy of escorting a trudging, mopey child along the sidewalk. This began a long ride back where he ‘hated’ everything and brought all of us within a hair of our patience. On the plus side, he isn’t having the eating problem that he had last week . . . The little guy is trying to make up for lost time in terms of snacks. Thankfully, bananas are in the mix there.
As I stated, I haven’t done any writing this week. By the time I reach the end of the day, I’m drained because I’m only getting 4-5.5 hours of sleep. This gets combined with chasing and wrangling an 8-year-old in the heat. Probably shouldn’t have tried to get biking into it too. I still have 2 acts to set up for another Sin story and I’m really hoping these characters work. Since I put zombie girl back on Earth, I removed her from this series and put a golem worker in her place. There’s also a Windemere spy who uses a six-shooter, which is a highly restricted and magically protected tech. If he works out then I’ll give him a series, but I’m worried about putting a firearm in Windemere. I want to try a super spy in a fantasy setting and this comes with an interesting subplot where the tech being abused means the Gnome God will take it back. At least for his series because he’s supporting cast for Sin, which also means he’ll be using his gun sparingly when he goes out of his jurisdiction.
Speaking of future ideas, I’ll be starting War of Nytefall: Loyalty in a 1.5 weeks and I’m not sure if I’m excited or scared. My brain is already moving toward the early ideas on how to make Clyde work and what to do about the early chapters. He’s not going to be anything like Luke Callindor or any other heroes. Clyde is fairly monstrous in both power and aggression, which is why his series will be predominantly vampires. I can’t think of a good way to explain him. Maybe comparing his to Luke? In a situation where Luke tries to save innocent bystanders, Clyde might be inclined to make some of them a snack or ignore them completely due to be focused on the fight. When I played him in a table top game, he was a destructive bastard that softened a bit because I couldn’t play him that way for long. The books don’t have that restriction since his gang are other Dawn Fangs instead of mortals. We’ll have to see how things go. It’s definitely going to be a change and I should really look over a test scene I posted long ago.
Feel free to give it a glimpse!
What are the goals?
- Finish setting up the Sin story to get it off my plate.
- Entertain the child
- Get sleep apnea device checked
- Martial arts and swimming escort
- Watch ‘The Tick’ on Amazon tomorrow night. Probably won’t get through it all.
- Continue trying to explain Freddie Mercury and Queen to the kid.
- Look over outline again.
- Read more ‘Black Cat’.
Legends of Windemere 
Hope you have a super week next week.
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Fingers crossed. Hope you guys have good news this week too.
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Thanks, Charles. Ww are waiting to hear.
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Same here. Really hoping for the best here.
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🙂
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Life happens. I get interruptions all the time, but it’s usually best for me. I’d grow mold if my wife didn’t make me do other things.
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I just get worn down by Thursday with everything going on. If I don’t get one weekend day to take it slow then life happening becomes a curse. Besides, without mold, we wouldn’t have penicillin. 😜
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Yeah, ten hour shifts, plus commuter time, kills my weeks. Sundays are usually pretty impossible for me to get things done, so I make those into relaxing times as best as possible. That leaves Saturday, and my flex day to work on writing projects. Most of the time, life will claim one of those, but I usually get some quality time on the other one.
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Feels like life keeps claiming my days. I do get tomorrow ‘off’, but laundry and cleaning cone first. At this rate, I’ll just be happy to get some extra sleep.
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I’ve had plenty of those days where extra sleep was considered a win. Hope it works out for you.
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Hope so too. Should get some tomorrow if things go according to plan.
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Sounds like an eventful week, even if not a very productive one for you.
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That’s par for the summer course.
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You had quite a week. Just read the scene, nice and exciting.
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Yeah. I’m hoping it stays similar, but I have a sense that the characters have changed in my head.
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The new series sounds intriguing. Tell more! I know, no spoilers…
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There isn’t much else to say yet. It’s about the appearance of the Dawn Fang vampires and the vampiric civil war that ensues. The series will highlight the big events that Clyde, the Dawn Fang progenitor, has to deal with until the current system is built.
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Sounds awesome!
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You get an amazing amount of work done, Charles!
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Sometimes. I didn’t get anything done last week in terms of writing.
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Ah, but you set down goals and thought on your projects, that will take you to the next step when you get some time. Last week was SO busy for me as have the last three weeks since the storm, but I’m finding moments here and there to do a little. That’s more than I had.
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True. I think after 10 years of only doing that, I don’t see it as progress. More like proof that I’m conscious. I’m looking at another 2 weeks of busy, but next week might be a break around Wednesday. Kid goes back to school. Which storm hit?
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It was just a tornado in our area. Still, worse we’ve had in years but we’ve had nothing compared to Texas and now I hear the Carolinas are expecting.
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Didn’t hear about the Carolinas. Keep watching the updates on Texas too. Still unreal in a way.
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I know. There are a lot of drives for Harvey at the stores, baseball players here, etc. Yeah, Ida is the one for the Carolinas. We’re getting rain, wind, and cold temps from Harvey. We had ten trees come down with the tornado and damage to the house, but we are thankful it wasn’t worse.
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Are you able to stay in the house with the damage? I think we’re getting the remains of Harvey or something up in New York now. Just hoping it gets the worst over with at night.
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We had to stay in a motel for a week but we’re back. It ripped our electrical box off the side of the house at the time. You’re up above me! I’m in northeast Ohio.
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More eastern actually. Over on Long Island. Did you get power back?
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Yes. They bolted it through the roof now so that it won’t or shouldn’t happen again.
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That’s good. Though I really hope you don’t have to test it very soon.
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I know. We had some strong winds last night followed by a thunderstorm. Lots of branches down everywhere and there were quite a few ambulances going down the road last night.
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We had some storms like that in the spring. Kind of scary when you have to park under an old tree.
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We had so many trees. Some are gone now, but yeah, there are some old ones to worry about.
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Hope they stay up.
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Me too!
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