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I literally paddled home today. This is the downside of living so close to work!

Met up with one of my Beta readers for a cuppa and we both shared stuff we probably hadn't planned to share - but it's that kind of friendship.

Got some work done - but I'm enjoying the quieter days. It's not that there's NOBODY around, but it's impossible to get a full group of people together, so things tend to just not happen. Life will get busy enough in due course, so I'll take the rest where I can.

Had a video call with daughter and younger grandson. She looked so tired :( Still no baby...

Finished the day with an episode of Umbrella Academy. The thing that's striking me most is how EARLY stuff happened. Events that I thought were in series 2 or 3 are actually in the first half of series 1! Thank you, brain.

But husband's steroid injection really seems to have done the trick. It's about time we had some good news.

And now for an early night!
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Got my hair cut to my satisfaction - finally! The hair dresser took me literally about going short-short at the back and got the clippers out! With a comb attachment. Not much off the front but some cute shaping around my ears. It's going to look about perfect in a month or so, I reckon :D

Took husband out for some fresh air. I left him parked by the suitcases whilst I got my hair done, then took the long way round to the chemist to pick up his prescription. Then back home for some more work.

This week's Friday Feature was hilarious. I think one reason they stopped doing them was because Rob was just played out. Taking a break has really allowed him to get his mojo back. Either that, or someone else is writing for him.

I watched the State of Play thing. Not much to excite me personally, although all the games LOOKED amazing. I think Astro's Playroom is a good place to start when it comes to introducing the younger grandkids to video games, though.

And Trump is guilty! Who knew?! Yeah - just about everyone. But he could still be president. I can't even...

Had some helpful feedback from one of my Betas for some of my short stories. In some cases, exactly the opposite to the other Beta who's provided critique. This is why it's good to have a range of views! It's so interesting to see how different minds work against the grist of your story, the things each person picks up on and how varied the responses are. And it's the downside to publishing. Your book is out there, all alone. People might read it, but you'll never know what they all think of it. I described publishing 'Mannerley' as being like sending your child off to 'big school' for the first time - you've taken them as far as you can, and now they're in someone else's hands and you have no control over how they will be received. And it's why I value my Betas so much - and why I loved writing for fanfiction.net; I live for feedback!

I finished the day off by bidding - and winning - on a dress on ebay. I even paid for it. Then I got an email saying the money was being refunded because the item was out of stock. WTF?! It's a dress - a pre-owned item - unique. How can it be out of stock?! And if it was sold to someone off-line, why continue to list the item? And if it didn't sell for as much as you hoped, raise the starting amount. I will be keeping an eye out for the seller and will avoid them.

And now it's time for bed. Good night, DW!
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Things we learned today...
  • Roast dinners really don't belong to Sunday lunch time.  Saturday or Sunday tea time is much better
  • Even when you heat up a tin of peas for 20 minutes, they can still come out hard
  • Assassin's Creed, even when it's the FFXV version, is not for me
  • I can write 3k words on a Sunday without breaking a sweat
  • Writing about someone who might have been me in a different life can be therapeutic
Karen, the MC for my Nano, is heading for the final crisis.  I don't usually put my characters through experiences that I would not want to face myself, but this Nano is all about pushing myself as a writer - and that means pushing my character to her limits.  She is most definitely unravelling now, and I'm setting things up nicely for the point where she falls apart completely.  It hasn't quite gone the way I expected it to - partly due to a conversation with one of my Beta readers earlier - but I do think it's working.

The cruellest part for Karen is that I'm going to relive the story through Dani and Nima Shahnaz before I draw the whole thing towards (what I still hope will be) a happy ending.

I had a little go at the Assassin's Festival on FFXV and just got annoyed with it.  I want to play mini-games, not dodge Magitek soldiers, especially when dodging them seems to involve running around in circles on rooftops.  The AC games look amazing and I would love the history element of them but, if the FFXV experience is anything to go by, I would not enjoy playing them.

Not sure when I'll get round to Primal again.  Maybe next Sunday?  I really want to keep up the momentum with the writing, although I am hoping to sneak in a bit of word creation during my dinner breaks at work.  In between cancelling my Amazon subscription and setting up one with Netflix, and investigating how to download 'My Shows' onto my new TV6 box...  I'm fairly sure there was something else 'businessy' I wanted to do this week...  It'll come to me...

Anyway, time for sleep, now.  I'll post Chapter 2 of TSS tomorrow.

Night, DW!

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