Waiting for 1 kid to go down for a nap as the other should wake up any minute.
that is definitely not what google translate told me.
very cool! i hope he does well.
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Thank you! He needs top 7 finish to better his career prospects next year, and podium or beating the #4 guy decisively to make main Olympic team.
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Thanks and you are right.
The villain story is coming along.
I wrote a new chapter in the beginning to add a couple of scenes that do two things:
- Show that nobody cares that she lost her powers. Nobody liked her as a goddess anyway. I never had this bit in there and I think it’s important to establish that she wasn’t as important to the people as she thought she was.
- Show the scene where her plea for help (closer to a demand) to another goddess goes nowhere. This was previously briefly mentioned in a long infodump summary. But since that goddess will later show her face again, I thought it’s important to set her up so she doesn’t come out of nowhere.
I also did extensive edits to the existing chapters and cut down on the infodump. Some exposition is necessary because I skip and summarize several centuries more than once, but I’m curious how cutting some of the infodump will work out later. I think it’s a good decision. Not just because no one likes long exposition but also because if I don’t explain the backstory of what my MC did prior to losing her powers, it makes it justifiable that she’s looking for revenge. You can’t help but see her as a victim of injustice.
So I hope to be able to later insert another character explaining what really happened, which makes her crusade that much less justifiable. It’s a little plot twist by revelation. To the reader, at least. My MC won’t change by this revelation. She’s too self-absorbed to see the other side of the story for what it is - that she’s the bad guy.
Now I’m done editing and I’m getting ready to continue the story. Next up: straight up lies and gaslighting.
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Fausty is still going on an epic adventure to uncover her past and…save the world? LOL!
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I finally understand more to my story.
The human population of Alterra are divided between the Ageless and the mortal.
However, there are some “humans” who are completely immortal and can’t be killed by absolutely anything.
Those “humans” are actually The First Ones trying to blend into human society.
Alterra is very wonky. LOL!
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Sounds like it’s coming along.
For me it was mostly reading today, but I did some character development for potential ONC and yeah, edited first chapter of LW. Not sure if I just should dive into editing it farther? The cutting stuff came easier this time.
Also, mom finished Rivals and Revels. She said she liked the beginning, didn’t like the lesbians and didn’t get which guy I liked from the two love interest. I told her that the answer is in the epilogue 
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The absolutely amazing thing happened! All three Russian young men skated their best. Clean shorts. And Andrei Mozalev, the last minute substitute, the guy passed over for another one initially, is in the first place after the short, with a gigantic Personal Best/Season’s best for his SP of 99.67. It was a beautiful performance.
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I got around 2k words written yesterday. I’ve settled on the theme of chapter 4, focusing on the dreams that my characters are fighting for as they attempt to build a functioning community during the apocalypse. It’s also given me an opportunity to create contrasts between characters, where the younger sister’s dreams primarily center around herself / her family while the older sister’s dreams center around extending help to strangers while my MC realizes that he hasn’t actually formed his own dreams for the future since he was so consumed by grief from the loss of his old dream.
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If a person is completely immortal, does that mean that they still have the ability to age even though they can NEVER die?
Deities (well, some of them) are completely immortal but they don’t necessarily have ages. I mean come on. A deity being older than the dawn of time does yet doesn’t help in this situation.
I guess a certain type of fictional creature also applies to this.
I think it would be fascinating to explore the concept of neverending aging.
We only know how far humans get when they get 120 or so. That’s aging we’re familiar with.
If a human was aging but their body wasn’t deteriorating, what would that look like? Would the wrinkles keep folding upon each other until we had more skin than body to hold it? Or do wrinkles only come with deterioration?
If there’s no deterioration, then that means there’s no regeneration, and skin constantly regenerates itself, so I think it’s necessary.
What if the human ages and somewhere past 100, they need to shed their skin like a freaking snake and they come out of it young?
Of course, they’d try to cheat and shed their skin earlier to never reach the old age, and so they’d use some kind of nasty lotion to speed up the process and it would have nasty side effects.
Lol.
This concept definitely got me thinking.
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That sounds very intense. LOL!
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I have immortal characters in different stories but never considered this side of immortality.
One is a human that was made immortal. He’s stuck in one age and never changes, his hair doesn’t grow, he can’t gain or lose weight, etc.
In another story I have a goddess that was stripped of powers and made mortal. She’s extending her life by drinking from the well of youth but it works only for a year so she ages rapidly, going from a young maiden to an old crone in a span of a year.
Neither of those situations is “normal” or physically possible but it’s a fascinating concept what aging would look like if human lifespan wasn’t limited by disease or weakened body.
There’s a theory that lobsters don’t age. Scientists have never seen one die of old age. They either get eaten, injured, or catch disease, but age doesn’t kill them, making you wonder how long a lobster could live in perfect conditions.
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Ok. I looked it up.
thanks to the release of telomerase throughout their life, lobsters never stop growing while most animals cease growth after they reach sexual maturity.
They stay young forever
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Really? That sounds awesomely interesting.
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Ok. They have a weakness!
So then, why do lobsters perish?
This can be answered by looking into how lobsters grow, which is a process known as molting. Molting demands a lot of energy, and the larger the shell, the more energy is required. Over time, the lobster will perish due to exhaustion during one of its molts. Older ones will stop molting altogether, which leads to the shell becoming damaged or infected, ultimately causing their demise.
So they keep shedding their shell, keep getting bigger, until they’re so big, it’s too tiring to finish the process.
So, in theory, if they were given a source of energy to let them finish molting no matter how big their shell is, they could live forever.
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Imagine being stuck in an endless puberty. 
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This is really cool to know.
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Ugh! That is horrible! LOL!
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