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senashenta) wrote2024-11-13 10:33 am
senashenta) wrote2024-11-13 10:33 am
Haku And Ryuu??
I am considering changing Tatsuya's name to just Ryuu which is super obvious, yes, but I like it much better than "Tatsuya" for some reason, so I'm going to ponder that for a while and decide by the end of the day. Also Haku is the one with the PLETHORA of light spots on the top/tip of his tail, and Tatsuya/Ryuu is the one with a darker tail literally they are basically identical I'M DOING MY BEST HERE.
Anyway, yesterday Mom and I headed to Elmvale, which is about an hour away (give or take) to pick up Kaida's brothers. I was buying one, but the lady asked, since I have such a huge tank, if I might be willing to take a third one as well, if she didn't charge me for it? Apparently she was having a hell of a time finding PROPER homes for them and felt really good sending them home with me, so I said sure, which is why I ended up with two yesterday and not just the one I'd originally intended.
NO REGRETS!! ...except I have to figure out how much to feed them, now that there's three of them? Though Kaida is still sulky so he didn't eat this morning. I'm not worried, though, give him a couple days and he'll get used to the New Normal and everything will be fine again. I definitely need to buy some more axolotl pellets at the end of the month, though. Also nightcrawlers. Blegh. :|
When I fed Kaida that worm a few days back AND SWORE OFF WORMS UNTIL THEY COULD EAT THEM WHOLE but then changed my mind about that, Kaida ate 3/4 of the worm, so they're very close to being able to just eat whole worms. Maybe another two or three months just to be sure? If Kaida is anything to go by, they grow like bad weeds, so they'll be big enough for full worms in no time AND THEN I WON'T HAVE TO CUT APART LIVING ANIMALS ANYMORE AHAHA!! /SOB
Um.
Writing-wise, I am BLOWING through TKA, but it's going to end up WAY longer than I originally speculated. I'm currently sitting at 77 pages and 37,532 words on the 13th of the month (and I'm hoping to get another 2,500 written later today), so I'm going to get to 50,000 words way before the NaNo is over, but like... almost NOTHING that I originally planned to put in TKA is actually IN TKA yet, I still have SO MUCH to write. I've written 77 pages and 90% of that is extra stuff that just CAME TO ME as I was typing. It's DEFINITELY going to be AT LEAST 80,000 words, if not more.
This is both exciting and terrifying because finishing TKA leads to EDITING TKA, which leads to FINDING AN AGENT for TKA and (hopefully) getting TKA published. And that is like... my ENTIRE UNIVERSE for AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER had revolved around wanting to finish a book and get it published and I just COULD NOT DO IT BEFORE. So NOW I'm kind of... anxious about it, which is stupid, but I'm excited, too, which I guess is LESS STUPID, assuming I can even get an agent and get published to begin with. I don't even know where to START with that stuff. :| Poe was supposed to be introducing me to THEIR agent, but... yeah. Not so much, anymore. idk.
But technically I've already completed two books with Horror High and Storm Season, so it's totally doable, I just have to do it with original characters and concepts that I won't get yelled at over copyright on lol. TKA is doing nicely, and then after that I'm going to work on Freefall and/or My Zombie, and of course a bunch of fanfiction stuff at the same time. I think I might work on What Angels Dream for a little bit today, actually.
First I need to have a nap, though, which I am off to do riiiiiiiight about now. =.=
Anyway, yesterday Mom and I headed to Elmvale, which is about an hour away (give or take) to pick up Kaida's brothers. I was buying one, but the lady asked, since I have such a huge tank, if I might be willing to take a third one as well, if she didn't charge me for it? Apparently she was having a hell of a time finding PROPER homes for them and felt really good sending them home with me, so I said sure, which is why I ended up with two yesterday and not just the one I'd originally intended.
NO REGRETS!! ...except I have to figure out how much to feed them, now that there's three of them? Though Kaida is still sulky so he didn't eat this morning. I'm not worried, though, give him a couple days and he'll get used to the New Normal and everything will be fine again. I definitely need to buy some more axolotl pellets at the end of the month, though. Also nightcrawlers. Blegh. :|
When I fed Kaida that worm a few days back AND SWORE OFF WORMS UNTIL THEY COULD EAT THEM WHOLE but then changed my mind about that, Kaida ate 3/4 of the worm, so they're very close to being able to just eat whole worms. Maybe another two or three months just to be sure? If Kaida is anything to go by, they grow like bad weeds, so they'll be big enough for full worms in no time AND THEN I WON'T HAVE TO CUT APART LIVING ANIMALS ANYMORE AHAHA!! /SOB
Um.
Writing-wise, I am BLOWING through TKA, but it's going to end up WAY longer than I originally speculated. I'm currently sitting at 77 pages and 37,532 words on the 13th of the month (and I'm hoping to get another 2,500 written later today), so I'm going to get to 50,000 words way before the NaNo is over, but like... almost NOTHING that I originally planned to put in TKA is actually IN TKA yet, I still have SO MUCH to write. I've written 77 pages and 90% of that is extra stuff that just CAME TO ME as I was typing. It's DEFINITELY going to be AT LEAST 80,000 words, if not more.
This is both exciting and terrifying because finishing TKA leads to EDITING TKA, which leads to FINDING AN AGENT for TKA and (hopefully) getting TKA published. And that is like... my ENTIRE UNIVERSE for AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER had revolved around wanting to finish a book and get it published and I just COULD NOT DO IT BEFORE. So NOW I'm kind of... anxious about it, which is stupid, but I'm excited, too, which I guess is LESS STUPID, assuming I can even get an agent and get published to begin with. I don't even know where to START with that stuff. :| Poe was supposed to be introducing me to THEIR agent, but... yeah. Not so much, anymore. idk.
But technically I've already completed two books with Horror High and Storm Season, so it's totally doable, I just have to do it with original characters and concepts that I won't get yelled at over copyright on lol. TKA is doing nicely, and then after that I'm going to work on Freefall and/or My Zombie, and of course a bunch of fanfiction stuff at the same time. I think I might work on What Angels Dream for a little bit today, actually.
First I need to have a nap, though, which I am off to do riiiiiiiight about now. =.=