today is day 3 of my return to home workouts and i decided wednesdays would be dance, which i eventually narrowed to dance tutorials bc it should be fun + you'll never really know when you need a dance routine ready
i'll get to the musical numbers eventually, just easing myself back into the game for the most part. and i will still have a separate day to do a hiphop dance workout or something, bc i'm not the greatest dancer in the world and i could use the practice hahaha
i'll probably repeat that, with a "break" in the middle, though the break will still be exercise of some form, and the routines will vary so my body doesn't entirely get used to them. i'm feeling so much lighter even after 2 days, so i'm happy!
and i never really deprive myself of food, just cut down portions and the like, so when i craved doritos last night i ate some. i've found it's better for me that way versus foregoing something entirely
now, on to plans... i still have to write the prequel short story for from silje's POV. i have 80% of the outline, which is as far as i go really when outlining, since Things Happen while writing, you know?
(so far, book 2 isn't facing drastic changes, just little additions here and there like ada going to the bathroom but, like, that final scene wasn't even in the original outline or first draft bc IT JUST HAPPENED )
a submission call also went up back home for an antho, so i'm giving it a think! it's filipino scifi in general, and they listed subgenres - i had an old short that's actually dystopian, and, well, they listed a category of "parallel worlds" and my brain definitely went !!!!!! to no one's surprise...................................
hilariously, on that note i recalled a convo hubby and i had sometime back, about what if britain colonized the PH... WE WANT TRAINS OKAY. and english breakfast is filipino breakfast already anyway, just change hash browns to rice, sausage to longganisa
anyway, i'll definitely write something far less mundane than that, but incidentally i was thinking about philippine steampunk yesterday and, well. this is my chance apparently??
i also want to keep submitting to that publisher because it gets my name out to its readers, and hopefully those readers find the trilogy since we're having that publisher print and distribute them
i'm already in one of their fantasy anthos, hoping to get into the next one, or idk i actually write a mini-antho and get it out myself??? i plan to have them print and distribute anything i put out on amazon, so.
also, this is just me being silly, BUT WHAT IFgermaine died and became hel's secretary in the underworld? not sure how much bureaucracy there is with the norse, but i do imagine that whatever bureucracy death entails in norse myth is going to be really fucking chaotic and germaine is having absolutely none of it, so.
from the leaves
𝔚𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔎𝔦𝔰𝔰
so 10 of those 20 are already published (or will be, there's one antho that's still pending release) and a few i'm editing to resubmit to calls. i'm planning some collections but i want them to at least have a unifying theme since the stories right now are all over the place
yeah i just spent a good chunk of my time inventory-ing my short stories and actually organizing my local drive so i can find them easier. and i also realize some stuff i'm missing, there's at least one i pretty sure i started writing but can't find now oh no
hilariously, i have two near-completed novels and... they're romance?? i'll also revisit these at some point and get them to a publishable state. i think i'm going to revamp the one that has no fantasy element into something with fantasy just to keep it on my brand with my general stuff haha
okay i only got through a third of the dance but that was fun??? sure my coordination is always challenged when it's time to put it all together, but i also like the mental gymnastics of having to remember everything that has to move. i did a 13-minute stretch before i started then finished with three 1-minute planks since it's the third day.
mc syndrome.
imagine the hilarity if loki wants a thing and hel goes "no, dad, talk to germaine first" so germaine has the trickster bothering her a lot
"i want to build a theme park made of nothing but inflatables" "can we have a knife-throwing contest" "why is there no train station in front of my house"
monday - stretch
tuesday - body combat
wednesday - dance tutorial
like ada going to the bathroombut, like, that final scene wasn't even in the original outline or first draft bc IT JUST HAPPENEDAlso, omg you could totally make your own Antho with that many shorts hahah go you!!
I’m not awake, I am an illusionI haven't had coffee yet, so nothing is real. I do not see you, you do not exist yeti don't see you either, you don't exist 𝔚𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔎𝔦𝔰𝔰 LMAOgood, good! Lmao! Someone tell my brain I have three more hours to be awake"why"
"because thor has goats"