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[mistressofmuses]

Night one of hanging out:
- read "Nine Lives", a short story but Ursula K Le Guin
- played two more successful escapes in Hades - FINALLY maxed Than's route; boy is NOT a cheap date. Slightly advanced the Achilles/Patroclus thread and maybe a bit of the Orpheus/Euridice one
- read "The Star of New Mexico", the last of the Jonathan & Francis Incryptid short stories. Another kinda bummer!
- got the Alice & Thomas short stories in order to start next. Including the one that's novel-length.

I DID manage my 500 words (by hand in a notebook at work)! Only one more challenging day!

For tomorrow: probably reading more, I think we're going to start playing Neir, and maybe we can finish season 2 of The Umbrella Academy.

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[dragalina827]

Sounds like an exciting start!

Congratulations! Notebooks sure do come in handy!

The Umbrella Academy?

I don't think we can be friends anymore XD

What do you think of it thus far?

I hated it, but my sister loves it.

[mistressofmuses]

It was a good visit! The notebook writing definitely helped - I always try to have a notebook in my purse, just in case.

Haha, The Umbrella Academy is one of my favorites, lol.

Not everything works for everybody though.

[dragalina827]

Notebooks come in handy, for sure!

lol

[sleeplesspotato]

I keep thinking, "I wanna play Hades again," then getting distracted and playing Kirby or Pokemon Legends Arceus instead. I haven't even met Than yet omg.

Yay for writing at work! Did you count the words by hand or do you just estimate each page? Nowadays I avoid writing fiction by hand because I've come to hate typing it up afterwards.

[mistressofmuses]

We had a couple pretty intense grind sessions to get through the main plot. I wish I had a system that could handle it so I didn't have to have my sibling play through with me. But it's also a fun bonding thing. :)
Than is not a cheap date! Like damn. Compared to Meg, it felt like his "social link" took FOREVER. I do really like him, though. (Though it does take a while for him to show up, as I recall.)

I counted them by hand, tallying them up after each paragraph. I can for the most part estimate - I get just about 250 words per page in this notebook - but since I was using it for NaNo I wanted to make sure my count was accurate.

Fortunately, I don't mind typing it up after. I typically rewrite/retype my drafts anyway, so it doesn't annoy me too much. Despite being a much faster typist than hand writer, I sometimes make progress faster by hand, just because I don't spend much if any time going back to delete or rephrase a sentence. But I'm still bad at taking my own advice, and I rarely actually write things out by hand, even though when I do, I'm usually happy with the experience, ha.