Hey, Miss J!

I’m what my father refers to as “crazy.” What a great way to start a conversation, huh? Or a blog post.

This is my second day of not speaking with him on any platforms at all. I spoke with a couple of my friends instead… and that proved to be enough. I sometimes think of myself as one of my Sims. You have a set number of needs. Sims with the ‘erratic’ trait can talk to themselves and gain social needs fulfilled.

I did something that I should have reconsidered between yesterday and this morning. I literally pounded my way through Chapters 1-21 of NtC. Realizing that the stats are really borked on Fanfiction.net… I’ve decided to once again take up the task of posting on that website.

Sadly… I still can’t see if anyone is looking at all. But recently, I did see that someone favorited and followed both NtC and myself.

I also just checked on a calculator. The shortest chapter is 27… with the longest being 50 pages long.

So—the total page count that I just blasted through—in MSWord—is 780 pages.

However, and my readers don’t know this, I already have an additional 92 pages waiting for edits, encompassing Chapters 22 and 23.

Will I ever punch out 780 pages worth of edits overnight again?

Cos to edit properly, I had to read the chapter as I went.

Nope.

No, no, no!

I’m nearly 40… so in all honesty, I never ever should have done NanoWrimo this year. It was far too draining for me.

Also, since I did all that revision and uploading this morning, I ended up sleeping until nearly 2PM after passing out before 8am.

My Fitbit reads as follows: … 73 % on the sleep quality chart. 4 hours, 45 minutes total. Spanning from 7:55AM – 1:10PM. Now, mind… I had a solid 30 minutes I was awake while in the middle of that sleep cycle.

If interested, the link to my fiction is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/25820569/chapters/62723077

No clue how WordPress handles links like that.

So… 21 chapters and no immediate end in sight.

Oh my.

But I feel very accomplsuehd accomplished.

Phew!

If I can update on a regular basis… and that’s a big IF, it’ll only be once a month. Since I used to update once every two weeks, it’s not a huge deviation from normal.

I’m also staring down the barrel of potentially even more health problems. Working on getting a better handle on my own health now.

… I wonder what my mother would have thought.

I really miss her.

Never before have I stuck to a story as long as I have with this one. I’ve been writing for Navigating the Curve for over three years at this point. The first four chapters of the story combined are longer than my entire novel.

Will I ever finish that?

No clue.

Just enjoying the ride with NtC. I really love that pairing.

With OA on the other hand… I don’t know. I think I got stressed out when a reviewer praised me for staying canon. I have no clue what that means exactly. Is it the places? The personalities?

Whatever it is, I’m starting to think of scrapping the entire story and rewriting it from Chapter 1. And slowly easing in details that weren’t there the first go around. Since the chapters average 4K, I should be okay in terms of overall strain on my joints.

My schedule will need to be adjusted again, to make sure that around my writing, I have plenty of time penned for things that are a whole lot more important!

I guess that’s it eh?

~J. Lyst

I’m sure I’ll think of something else soon… Maybe. IDK.