That day was pretty packed.
First the morning routine, including a measly 20 minutes of manuscript time, then breakfast with my husband and crochet. I did half the breakfast dishes before calling my mother who told me about a friend and neighbor who fell and broke her shoulder.
While my husband was making lunch I started prepping for my afternoon Zoom meeting. I had talked about needing a sounding board in one of the Slack groups I belong to and one of the members had offered to meet on Zoom for that.
I also refilled one of my fountain pens and started cleaning another one.
Then there was lunch:
I read for a bit and then played some Genshin. The whole experience was rather frustrating because I failed at basically everything I tried. The problem was that I’m at a point where the bosses are leveled up but my characters not so much. Meh.
So I made a list of all my writing projects because I need to think about what I’ll work on when.
Somewhere throughout the day I had an idea for the second main character in the contemporary romance series. Very exciting!
My husband had a former student over to look at a guitar amp but I was so preoccupied that I didn’t even see him. I still did the dishes, and then it was time for Zoom.
We talked for 90 minutes, much longer than I would have thought. It was my first time where the other person was walking on a treadmill during the call and it turns out that is the thing that makes me put my crochet down. Seems, we both have a hard time sitting still for too long, and my usual solution is to knit or crochet. I try to set the camera up in a way that hides my motions because too much movement is just too distracting.
The conversation was a lot of fun and I ended up with homework even. (I love me some homework but I always reserve the right to just not do it.) Talking through projects often helps straightening them out.
By the end of the call I saw that the boy had asked about bodyweight training half an hour earlier, so we did that.
We both ate dinner and he offered again to help me fight the bosses I needed for certain materials. This time I accepted. It feels a little weird to just stand there while someone else slays your boss in five strikes but there is a reason for multi-player mode and that saved me ten days of frustration.
And then the boss printed his thesis out. I helped a little with layout and quality control. Unfortunately, we ended up with a faint line at the top of most pages. But it should be good enough.
After that I started writing this post, did a very short round of Chinese and went to bed a little late yet again.
And guess what? Today will be super packed as well. And I promised to send the cover brief off, so I guess I’ll do that.
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