Weekly Update - 25 November, 2024

Hello again, all!

It's been... quite the week.

As it turns out, the surgery I was scheduled to undergo would not have been a good idea, for various medical reasons I won't bore you with. The end result is that I spent... several hours in the hospital being prepared for a procedure, and then when I got to the actual surgical suite, it didn't happen. Considering this was for a procedure that would have helped a chronic condition I have, you can imagine, I think, that this was rather disappointing news.

Overall, I think not having it done right now will produce better results, but it's still disheartening, and I've been in a bit of a funk. On top of that, I've been dealing with a lot of (unrelated) lower back pain and stomach issues this week, so it hasn't been as productive as I might have liked.

Still! I wrote 5,000 words, and am now in the middle of the first official poly scene with Hekate and Hermes, which is exciting to me. I've never written a poly relationship before, and it's fun to take a crack at the unfamiliar (the researched unfamiliar, but still). My goal is to get the whole of Chapter Three out by the new year, but I still have six more route-specific scenes to go after this, so we'll see if I can manage that, or if it's maybe a bit too optimistic.

In any case, I've also bought a new couch, which will hopefully help with the lower back pain (I do all my writing on the couch, like a heathen), and I did get a little more storyboarding done on what might eventually become my first novel, so the week hasn't been a total wash, by any means.

The BIP, of course, will appear next Saturday. I'm definitely on track to hit my 40k word goal, so we'll see how much I manage beyond that.

I hope that wherever you are, you're doing well. Until next week!