it doesn't even matter how hard you try;

[tiny_ninja]

WIP Wednesday is late because the whole house, save for Gabby, has been sick. Q went to school for two days and came home with the crud. Today is the first day I can breathe without feeling like something has been sitting on my chest, but the cough won't go away. ._. At least it's progressing and I feel less like death today than I have all week. I actually got Matt to come in and cover the end of my shift yesterday so I can sleep, and I never do that.

I have to post my Press Start assignment today. I'm a little worried because Meghan couldn't get me edits in time, and I have to go to Connecticut this weekend, but I can tweak things before reveals if I need to. Going to do a good final readthrough today before posting. I know it's pretty solid, but still, I worry. Especially since it's not necessarily the sort of thing I usually write, either.

I skipped editing yesterday because of death-ness, but I'm almost finished with one of my favorite scenes in the entire novel. It's also one of the most important scenes, which is why I didn't edit yesterday because I didn't want to screw it up and have to do it all over again. It also has one of my favorite lines, which I will post here out of context:

"I was the first of the Rangers to die."

It's an important scene of backstory and revelations and Things That Come Together and just... *sighs happily.* It also means I'm at the point of steamrolling towards the end. Only 75 pages left to go!

I'm also starting to consider joining the Darcyland Autumn Revival 2019 for October. It's posting a Darcy Lewis fic in October set between 2011 and 2014. Matt and I have been discussing details of what might be fun to write - and he wants to help me turn it into a podfic, which I've never done before. Could be an interesting challenge!

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[runicmagitek]

Oh noooo not The Death D: hope you're feeling better bb and A+ for asking someone to cover you! Staying home sick is never easy. I feel ya. And good on Matt for covering ♥

I love how we're both writing something we don't usually write for Press Start :D and best of luck with polishing it up! You can always go in and edit it after you post it and before reveals. I know I've done that a couple of times :D

Love that out of context line ♥ so curious to see how the story unfolds!

I'm all for you joining this Darcyland Revival thing! Honestly, I'm just a fan of you writing more Darcy and writing in general, because that means more awesomeness for me to read :D I have zero experience doing podfics, but I support this nonetheless! I know there's very much a fanbase for people who are into that, even more so in massive fandoms like MCU. Best of luck with all of it!

[tiny_ninja]

The deaaaaaaath. Today hasn't been too bad but now I fear this cough will never leave me. Also Matt is a good bean who took one look at me and went, "Go the fuck home, you shouldn't be here." You'll like him.

I think it's gonna be okay, but I always worry when the only beta is me going through a couple rounds of edits. As long as the recipient is happy, I'll be good lol

I'm so excited about this part, because it's adding some old school PR canon in and making it work with the 2017 storyline, in a way I hope that works. My two content readers (Matt and Meghan, who basically demanded I send them the novel the moment it was done) both agreed it was great, so I'm hoping you'll like too!

Darcy is so much fun to write. I've never done podfic before either, but Matt has a better voice than me for that stuff and it'll be cool to collaborate on something together. It also reminds me that I should do a transformative works statement somewhere. We'll see how it goes!