Reading More, Editing Different, and Insert Some Pun About Oni

I tried going back to reading 24 pages a day of a library book for week. With my huge reading list and noting I was barely putting a dent into the A authors, I thought I should read more than my previous 12 pages a day. From that experiment, I believe I can maintain 24 pages a day but I would have to go to bed 10 minutes earlier and I can’t be distracted too much before I finish reading that number of pages. My brain initially felt like a book was shoved into it the first few nights but that eased by the weekend. Having 10 more minutes to relax without screens will hopefully help with my sleep. 

I also finished the final draft for the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. It took forever to finish the rewrite notes but when I started, I was going through 5 to 6 pages a day. I’m going to wait 6 weeks before I do a final review of the chapters and post them, since this week I finished reviewing the previous 2 chapters that will close out the conflict of the story. I’ll be interested in seeing how others react to these final chapters. Don’t hold me to it but I believe I’ll be finished with this fanfic September or October at the very latest. I haven’t decided what fanfics I’ll write next, so for now I’m rewriting an outline for a Digimon fic that I changed to make distinct from another story but later wanted to change it back. I don’t know if I’ll ever post it – if anything, I might just post 1-shots.

On other writing news, I decided to change how I rewrite original fiction. I’ve been doing rewrite notes for the whole mon-inspired book but I find I forget the things I want to change as I go along. So now I’ll take rewrite notes a chapter at a time, pausing to implement the changes before taking rewrite notes for the next chapter. Since I did half the rewrite notes already, I’ll reread the following chapters to see if there’s any additional things I want changed before implementing the changes. Since I’m almost done with We Will Hold On Forever, I’m switching to writing original fiction on weekdays (barring when I go to review said fanfic’s final chapters), so I’ll see how helpful this strategy is before long hopefully.

( Review and spoilers about My Oni Girl )

That’s all for. Free Palestine and release the hostages on all sides. If you can, here’s a link to donate to those in need. This is the awful natural conclusion of colonialism. I’ll see you at the end of August.