Mid-June 2024 Update · 1:39pm June 20th
The Trixie-focused [MANTUA] continues at a somewhat reasonable pace of one and a half pages edited per day. Out of fifty-three (so Libreoffice Writer reports), though of course, this is just the beginning... I can (and should) speed up as I pick up the pace once more.
"A magician never reveals her secrets, hmph." Her annoyed grandstanding, though, is in good jest, flourished with a swing of the hoof and the coin once more, shining greater all over the place.
"It's just like... well, uh, magic!"
"Then Trixie is pleased to hear that. The world does need much more life to it, and it is only those who take life by the throat, who dare and who brave the seas of uncertainty, that it can be revived again!"
First off, there is one big picture.
That aside, I think I've said it before, but I've been trying to experiment with how my mind processes tasks and time management. It was something I picked up around late February/early March, starting with the Autofocus systems of Mark Forster (make a list, scan it, focus on what you need to do, cross it out if finished or not finished in which case re-enter it into the list... simplified), then hitting up the Personal Kanban system (using a Kanban board but for personal tasks)... and finally, getting to Getting Things Done by David Allen.
While the first two systems worked for me initially, I was faced with one problem: I could churn out good work and productivity at the moment, but I had no direction. The personal kanban worked a bit more, but setting up kanban boards for individual projects was rather tedious. GTD is... well, so far, it's working partly because it has lots to do with projects which I can see tangibly... in conjunction with AbstractSpoon's ToDoList program.
Sort of off-topic but hey, evidence board!
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Chapters "1012 pt 3," "A Matter of Faith," and "1012 pt 4" combine for over 72,000 words. And I just got out of that trio of chapters.
For all my hesitation about continuing the Austraeoh series past the first book, I think it's more a framing issue over time than an actual problem with reading the stories themselves. I've had no problem reading MagicS's two Rainbow Dash stories despite them going above two million words. I am not sure if it's because there's so few pit stops, in a sense... Austraeoh is split up into quite a few entries, whereas MagicS has just the one break in between. And Front to Front has none until I catch up to the latest chapter.
Of course, it's a disservice to the story if I just talk about how long the chapters were. If anything, Cyril's Westkeep arc is nothing short of exhausting in a good way. The death of one, the incapacitation of another... Cyril basically holding the line against what looks like the brunt of Aquileia, all with the Imperial standard basically serving as the heartbeat of the final stand, only to be saved by airplanes... I don't think that came out of nowhere. I think that was a fitting albeit very costly end, all written like Cyril could die even though I know he isn't because we've still got tons of chapters (and five in-universe years) to go. Kudos to Warpony!
I may be too many years late to contemplate on the fact, but I do realize there's... probably(?) no real letter a. A font is not perfect nor an exact representation of a letter.
Sophistry aside, I say that because I recently learned that Kindles can have custom fonts.
So after some hunting, I found a peculiar one.
"Newt Serif" makes for a non-standard experience. Or, rather, a slightly uncanny reading session. It's fantasy enough to make it look mystical (so says one of the tags on the site). I initially wanted to have something akin to bargain-bin second-hand paperback books (basic serif, tightly bunched), but this... it's different enough.
That will be all for now, though! May you have a blessed day ahead, then!
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