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[davetheanalyzer]

The end of vacation and the beginning of my last semester. Fortunately, my professors decided to convert the few in-person meetings to video chats, which will be held on different days so it wouldn’t take too much of the students’ time. I’ve finished and sent in the second draft of my master project and I’ll see the feedback to it soon. I don’t know if For now, I only plan to write five days a week but I’m unsure if I need to up it to six days a week for the third and future drafts, since I might need to do more to get the master project to a presentable form. I’ll talk with the professor about that. In the meantime, I have tried to get started on the submissions I’ll make for Writing Portfolio, to make my own take on a certain genre and what scene would best display it.

I’ll also see if I can sneak in some We Will Hold On Forever writing at least one or two times a week. I’m actually over halfway into the latest chapters and I’m liking the changes I made so far. I don’t think it’ll be instantly ready for posting when I’m finished but knock on wood, maybe I won’t need to spend so much time editing it. I’ll have to add notes to the chapters that precede those two warning of certain violent elements that occur in them. Granted, I try to give minimal detail to those violent moments but I think I should give that kind of warning anyway for the readers’ benefit. I’m considering posting the next four chapters within a month of each other, to compensate for the long wait. This will mean I skip writing the next set of chapters, so the wait for that will be longer but I think that will be alright. I also considered reframing the story ending slightly. Short to say this fic isn’t going to have a downer ending since I want the characters to be somewhere in a happier place. I’m wondering how much bittersweetness should be present in the ending and if it might undermine the happier elements of the ending. Ah well, that’s pretty far off but something to think about.

I’m starting to go on anxiety medication, though the dose is starting low before going up to see how it affects me. I have family members who take the same meds, so that eased the process but I’m feeling little effects aside from some initial very faint nausea and maybe some effects on sleep. I hope it does eventually help with my anxiety and I can interact with others without worrying too much if I’m doing or saying something that might be bothersome.

Rest in peace, Chadwick Boseman. Still a bit shocked by his passing. I’m editing this after going shopping with Mom again (Don’t worry, we wore masks) and on the first day of classes. Until the end of September, see you.