Patronage is a way for people to feel like they make a difference in your life.
There are still people that support the arts out there.
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Kinda like this last sentence I wrote: “Her body rocked gently as the cart climbed the red hill toward Pandemonium.”
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Nope. I don’t aimed to be paid, I just want people to read and love my stuff 
And, ta-da! At long last, this draft of Lone Werewolf is finished. I said that before, in April, but this time it’s for realz, okay? 
Now, the hard work begins… actually nope. I will let it sit and gather feedback and edit it after the ONC.
OMG, so happy to see the word END finally!
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YAYY!! 
Congrats!
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Congratulations!!!
That is awesome!
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Thank you! Looking forward to writing a short story and toying with a bunch of outlines and first chapters until the ONC.
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I’m also scrambling to do as much as I can for my current WIP before ONC. Once February comes around, everything will get benched for months.
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My goal is to hit close to 20K for ONC, so finish it in draft before first submission timeline, then edit for a couple of weeks, then go back to editing Watty submissions and plan a new book. We’ll see if I can stick to this reasonable plan!
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setting timeline goals might b a good idea for me but i don’t want to turn writing into a chore… but, i want to finish some of these projects eventually 
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Timelines doesn’t really make something a chore. It’s just a tool.
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My tired brain read this as “so happy to see the WORLD END finally” 
In all seriousness, huge congrats!!! It always feels so great to finish a novel! I hope you’re planning to celebrate somehow 
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Oh yes! I am writing a short story. 
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I am going to be sticking with both Necromancy and Alchemy for Faust.
He is going to be able to practice both instead of one.
Meh, I just need to figure out how to make both work well together.
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I have had an emotional day today.
Such a dry thing to say.
No, what happened is I couldn’t look at a book I have finished and decide whether to upload the whole of it or not because my kids couldn’t be quiet–and THAT is secondary to the issue of it being something I wrote close to my mother’s death.
It’s nothing like what I was going through, but there is one event that comes from my mom’s last months.
I will be able to take criticism on the thing. It’s just so close to her birthday…and I’m not in the right place right now.
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You don’t have to upload it until you are ready. Don’t feel rushed and just do it when you feel right about it.
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Off-topic slight rant:
I am so tired of this COVID!!! I know this is one of those things that EVERYONE is tired of in their own way but damn this virus is the worst.
Anyway, I am going to write to get my mind of things.
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Am gonna echo @Azmaveth
Also, instead of writing I decided to figure out video editing to make myself a little gift. I like that song, so like I want to put clips of skaters I like with it. It is going take a while, lol. Not easy to find bits that more or less fit, but hey, watching more figure skating? I can suffer through that for a couple of weeks
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It’s been 3 years. It’s not the length of time but the timing. I did not expect to be this damn emotional over this.not even touching the thing right now and I’m just short of hysterical. Makes me think some of it is hormonal.
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I lost my mother seven years ago. It’s still not easy sometimes. I can’t imagine what it would be like with hormone shifts.
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It’s crazy. I think I’m being rational and normal, and I’m biting heads off. As soon as someone points it out, I can correct the behavior if it’s just hormones.
The kids brought a bunch of blankets into the living room to make nests and I about burst into tears (and I don’t cry for anything) because it was either cry or…ah…correcting the kids without provocation.
It does not help that the boy’s birthday is 2 days before mom’s, and this is the last baby I will have make 1, and mom never saw him. No end to the angles of hell on this. Lol
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