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The end of the apparent first year of a new decade and it wasn’t a fun one with covid and anxieties over the election. I did make some progress though. After some personal struggles, I decided to go to therapy and eventually also decide to take some anxiety medication. It led to some solutions to current worries, like only taking in an hour of bad news a day whether from news sites or on social media. For social media, this sometimes meant withdrawing from a few accounts altogether, whether because I barely used them anyway or some people being disappointing in a bigoted manner gave me the impetus to do so. This included livejournal. I was already having trouble with double-posting there and I don’t post anything unique at livejournal anyway and since I already copy posted everything there to dreamwidth, I thought I might as well delete it. I also learned and got taught various calming techniques. Even if they don’t always work, they have helped with some of the stresses I have. There is still a lot more progress to make but I’m getting there. And at least Trump was voted out of office. Biden will need to be pushed into a more progressive direction but at least that fascist wannabe will be out of power.

Cut for more writing babble, Zone Fighter talk, and other things )

That's all for now. At last this cruddy year is over. Until the conclusion of January, see you! 

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I finally uploaded new chapters of We Will Hold On Forever! I’ve been slowly going through the chapters each weekend and found chapters 23 and 24 were nearly complete, and after some edits, I posted them. I was originally going to have chapter 23 be longer and 24 shorter, but I wanted the chapters to be more or less of even length, so I pushed a few scenes to chapter 24. I don’t remember the exact wording but I remember coming across the advice that a fight scene should only last four pages before ending or something majorly changes, so that led me to keeping each fight scene to around four pages. I think the benefit of that is the action doesn’t overstay its welcome. I’m already getting comments and can’t wait to see more reactions to scenes and plots I’ve had percolating for a while.

Anyway, I finally watched Zone Fighter. Spoilers if you want to go into it clean. Warning, I talk about potential bad animal treatment in the last paragraph )

That’s all for now. The end of my fall semester is in two weeks and I can’t wait to take a bit of a break from writing. I’m glad I’m doing well on the rewrite for my Master Project but constantly writing for the same story for months on end is exhausting. Until the end of the year, see you!

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