Shorter Monthly Post Than My Usual One

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Within a week, I’ll be done with the semester. It’ll be the last time I take Writing Portfolio, since I took the minimum four times required. I can do more but decided not to do it for next semester. With the remaining classes left, I decided to only take one, beginning with Nonfiction in the Fall. There’s a requirement to have at least one class out of your focus, which is Fiction for me, so I’ll deal with that. The only other classes were spending the entire semester writing the manuscript and sending it back to your advisor for feedback and rewrites. That sounds like a lot of work, so I would prefer not to have additional schoolwork while doing that. I’m not sure if I’m nearly done with my Personal Marketing Report but I’m very close. All I need to do is check out my sources for publishers, do some organizing of the sections and read through for spelling or grammar errors, and then I’d be finished

In other news, I have kept meaning to see Missing Link but other appointments kept getting in the way. Since the film is doing so badly, it left theaters Monday. I was interested in seeing Fast Color but checking Fandango revealed it wasn’t playing in any theaters in my state. By the time I read a post that prompted me to contact my local theater about it, the film was already on its way out from its very limited theatrical run. I was a bit late to act and my theater seemed to indicate it doesn’t do limited release indie films anyway. I should have called the out-of-town theater that runs indie films to see if they would play it. Hopefully, the film will show up on Netflix. I planned to see Avengers Endgame tomorrow but I realized I had a dentist appointment that day.

I already saw the dentist the week before and apparently I haven’t been flossing right. I should replace the floss every day so the old gunk doesn’t get pushed into new places and I need to really get down in the gums to get some of it out. I tried to use regular floss, having forgone them for floss picks due to weak hand strength, and I’m finding it challenging. I watched a video on how to do it, but I keep losing track of what teeth gaps to do next and I’m finding it hard pushing it up through the tighter gaps and making sure I take care both sides of the gaps. Each time, I gave up and used a floss pick, albeit doing it in front of a mirror. Maybe I need to practice more or see more videos? If this continues to be an issue, I should be more honest with them about some of my strength limitations, since I lost nerve with the person who did the teeth cleaning keeping saying I can do it.

With my fanfic writing, I’m finding a chapter of We Will Hold On Forever I’m working on is shorter than I anticipated it to be. There are a lot of fight scenes in it and you can’t extend them too long without making them boring. My focus is expanding on the mood and character bits. I suspect it would lead to ten additional pages, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more than that. A lot of the chapters and stories tend to be longer than expected. It’s not a guarantee that the next set of chapters will be posted early but it does indicate some good progress.

That’s all for now. Right now, I’m recovering from doing something that was very anxiety-inducing a few days back. Until the end of May, see you!