It is, the library puts in a lot of outreach effort to support these patrons, it has a little corner blocked off for people to come to if they need help and a kiosk outside that has stuff like instructions on where to go for addictions recovery. But libraries are incredibly underfunded and understaffed so there’s only so much they can do. And that’s true of pretty much any public library.
yes 
They all need more money if they are helping people and doing community outreach.
uses dough brain
public libraries are public service organizations, community outreach is part of their job. But they are viewed as outdated book horde buildings and areconsistently undervalued and therefore underpaid.
pokes dough brain does that work?
I know right? It’s not fair for the people who are helping people out. 
yells
definitely not.
sorry
The government don’t care about giving the ordinary people help sometimes. It’s the same here too.
it fixes itself.
it’s the same everywhere. There is no such thing as good government, there is only the “least worst” option. Which is why i’m burning all my IDs, becoming a hag, and mysteriously disappearing into the woods.
phew
Which is still crap most of the time…
To join me? 
My brain is dead
do you live in the woods?
you said it fixed itself!
Big sad oof.
I live near the woods, yes.
I mean, idea wise.
then i will not join you, because i will be inside the woods. but we can be adjacent and i will only occasionally haunt you with cryptid behaviour.
unfortunate, add some yeast.
anyways back on topic: my computer’s about to die so it’s time to head home, but I did manage to get a few hundred words out. Useable words? Maybe not, but it’s better than nothing I suppose.
I am in it for the long run. I believe!
And it’s finally weekend! Watching figure skating now, but have grand plans for tomorrow!
you can do it! 
ooo figure skating 
maybe we can have a word war tomorrow? you will almost definitely win lol
Omg yes! Everyone’s about money, and what makes money is brain candy, not thoughtful books about real world problems. You got me thinking about booktubers the other day with your thread about that, so I’ve been looking for booktubers who review adult books and litfic, AND THERE ARE NONE! I mean, there’s a few, but only a few. Many that used to exist have deleted their content and left YouTube. And why should they stay? All the adults out there are reading books meant for teens and younger. No one wants a book that’s challenging anymore. You can see the sameness of everyone just browsing channels and OMG WHY DO THEY ALL HAVE FAIRY LIGHTS AND RAINBOW SHELVES?! These are grown women, so why are they decorating their bookshelves the way I did when I was ten? ┬┴┬┴┤(･_├┬┴┬┴
I suspect this is some kind of pushback against feminism and independent women, but I don’t understand it. Okay, rant over. Oh, if you want to be a success, just write books that have a lot of melodrama so readers can take pictures of themselves having all the feels while they hold up your book. Write something like A Little Life where you just pound a character into the ground with extraordinary abuse. Seriously, you need to do this and see if it works. Good luck! __〆(．．)
I have at least completed my novel!
Thanks for the encouragement.
It’s not technically a draft five though.
Draft one (a finished draft) was a cool story but it had serious issues, needed a good rewrite.
Each version after that had a little change, just a tweak here or there, but I kept getting to a point, of “I solved one issue but introduced 3 more.” 
None of those alternative versions was a finished draft. Since it wasn’t working, I saw no reason to keep going with it.
I felt burned out by it eventually, so I put it aside to focus on other wips.
Version 4 that I started early this year had serious changes from the earlier ones. I wanted to simplify the story because I think the complexity was the reason why I kept getting stuck. I made it really hard for myself. 
I didn’t finish V4 either before I got an idea. Sure, I could ignore it and keep writing but I took the chance that maybe this one is it. Small change so not too many revisions are needed.
I’m almost halfway in. Fingers crossed that I’ll finally have a full working draft after this.
In summary, I discovered many different ways of how not to write this story. 
Serves me right for writing something this ambitious. Lol.
I know that the advice out there is to finish a draft before writing a new one, but I don’t know. I just lose passion for the story when I can see that it’s not working. Starting each of those new versions has always rekindled my passion. I don’t want to abandon this story just because it’s complex. There is the right way to write it out there. And when I find it, it will be glorious. 
I was thinking over the latest issue I encountered when I wrote my updated synopsis (one character’s motivations were a sketchy, made no sense), and I realized that I needlessly changed a detail earlier on in the synopsis, and if I just continue the story the way I’ve figured out before, it will still work. I had already figured out that issue in the past!
Not sure how that change came to be. I guess I let my imagination loose while writing that synopsis. Or maybe I was trying to up the stakes and make things harder for my protagonist. The problem is that when things are harder for him, they’re also harder for me and I’m tired of hard. Let’s just do easy to finish this baby.
So in other news, it’s still on. I’m still on track with my plans.
Heh, I usually do terrible at sprints. The way I write is with a lot of writing, rewriting, rereading etc. so, I rarely go over 2K per day, and if I do, I am burned out. But I want to edit 2 chapters of She Kills, finish chapter 17 and cover some ground on my next review. Maybe watch a vid or two on Singapore for location research, because chapter 18 moves me there. I still need to pick cherries before it gets too hot! But, overall, I can pretend I am a pro writer tomorrow!
I agree completely.