Editing, Pizza, and Frostbite

I spent most of the day wasting my damn time. I don't know how I let myself waste like, 4 whole hours lying around, but I did. I got a drive down to the gas station early in the morning to buy a bunch of snacks, but had to walk back. Still, I figured if I'm going veggie, I deserve some damn salsa. . . that didn't make the forty minute walk home through the snow any more fun, though. By the time I got home I was basically coated in a layer of ice.

Okay, not actually - but I might as well have been. Also, it was a creepy walk. Not only is it just generally spooky to be walking through a road in the middle of the woods, it's even worse to do it while crows fly around above you, cawing and staring. Crows are creepy birds. I mean, cute, but kind of demonic.

My parents bought pizza tonight and actually remembered to get me a vegetarian one, which was really nice of them - and it's fucking perfect:


You wish you had this pizza. . .

 Aside from that I'm just working on SOSAS. I really like this book, and I'm enjoying editing it, but I'm also ready for it to be done. I love high fantasy in theory, but in execution I can only take it in bits and pieces - especially when I'm the one writing it. Drafting was great - drafting has always been my favourite part of the process - but now I'm at a point where I've spent so much time in Josmea, expanding on things and trying to form this world and figure out what makes it tick.

 I know I'll be coming back to it in the future, but I'll be writing a lot of urban fantasy, paranormals, and sci-fi stuff between now and then, and I'm really glad for it.

 I don't have much to talk about today, and my posts have been short lately because my focus has been on school and writing, but I'll be writing some more substantial posts in the near-future! For now I'm going to drown you all in music, though:


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