daily update, Thursday May 14
May. 14th, 2020 10:01 pm1. Today was another slow-ish day at work, but I expect it will pick up again soon -- at least in terms of busywork, because we have to put together another set of key transfer envelopes, this time for move-in rather than move-out.
2. Yesterday I mailed a card to my cousin Michael and a postcard to my brother, and today I mailed a postcard to my parents. (The opening paragraph turned into doggerel rhyme, what even.)
3. I wrote ~600 words of the Doctor Who/Magnus Archives crossover, which is now just over 6,000 words and I have finally revealed who/what is behind the killer mannequins in this fusion universe. Now I just need to work out a good way for Rose and Jon to deal with that threat and make it out alive. (I probably also need to trim some of the material, since I was kind of writing in circles for a bit while I tried to figure out what exactly the Stranger was up to, and I think a fair bit of my current text is filler when what I actually need is to be winding the tension tighter and tighter until it snaps.)
4. I made my first monthly payment for my new health insurance plan.
5. I listened to "Curiosity," aka episode 167 of the Magnus Archives, which is... I mean, it was always obvious this story wasn't going to have a happy ending, but we're just hanging narrative anvils right and left now, waiting for them to crash down. Also, I'm glad to finally get
( vague spoilers )
And now, I think, bedtime. :)
2. Yesterday I mailed a card to my cousin Michael and a postcard to my brother, and today I mailed a postcard to my parents. (The opening paragraph turned into doggerel rhyme, what even.)
3. I wrote ~600 words of the Doctor Who/Magnus Archives crossover, which is now just over 6,000 words and I have finally revealed who/what is behind the killer mannequins in this fusion universe. Now I just need to work out a good way for Rose and Jon to deal with that threat and make it out alive. (I probably also need to trim some of the material, since I was kind of writing in circles for a bit while I tried to figure out what exactly the Stranger was up to, and I think a fair bit of my current text is filler when what I actually need is to be winding the tension tighter and tighter until it snaps.)
4. I made my first monthly payment for my new health insurance plan.
5. I listened to "Curiosity," aka episode 167 of the Magnus Archives, which is... I mean, it was always obvious this story wasn't going to have a happy ending, but we're just hanging narrative anvils right and left now, waiting for them to crash down. Also, I'm glad to finally get
And now, I think, bedtime. :)