WIP Wednesday

Hey all, Sam and David here.

I am so glad that I started getting this post prepped on Monday…because David and I stayed up really really late last night playing Diablo IV (like it was 4:30am) when we turned off the gaming systems and went up to bed. Whoops.

Anyway, welcome back to WIP Wednesday. For those who don’t know WIP stands for Work In Progress, and this series is one we put out each Wednesday to update what we’ve been doing the past week, whether that is reading, writing, gaming, 3D printing, or whatever other shenanigans we get up to. These weekly check-ins help us keep track of everything we get into because some weeks it is a lot of stuff.

Speaking of, it has been a pretty busy week, so let’s go ahead and get started.

Sam

Reading: The Grimoire of Grave Fates created by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen, Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, Morgan is my Name by Sophie Keetch.

I always like to start off with my reading section. In the past week I managed to read Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, and I’ll definitely have to pick up the sequel as soon as I can manage it, because I find that I rather enjoy cozy fantasy stories. I also managed to read The Grimoire of Grave Fates created by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen, and Morgan is My Name by Sophie Keetch, both of which were NetGalley Reads. I will be getting their reviews up soon. I can also say that Grimoire is an anthology, and it came out this week, so you can get your hands on this magical school murder mystery collection.

I suppose I should also just go ahead and mention what my current reads are…although obviously I’m not going to get much reading time today or tomorrow (because of Diablo IV), but that’s okay.

Here’s what I’m in the middle of, because yes, I absolutely do read multiple books at once: A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato, The Study of Poisons by Maria V. Snyder, and Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool. I feel like I’m doing a pretty decent job at the moment of working my way through some of my NetGalley reads, which means I will be having more and more NetGalley Reviews coming up on the blog. Both Beth Cato’s and Katy Rose Pool’s books are NetGalley reads, and Cato’s book is actually already out in the world. And I had to pick up this Maria V. Snyder release because I have loved the Chronicles of Ixia series for many years, and it’s fun to go back and read the beginning of it all over again but from a different perspective.

Watching: “Bones” Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Season 8 (in progress), “Shadowhunters” Season 3, “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” “The Little Mermaid” (live action with my mom), “The Little Mermaid” (animated with David)

Because my mom was in town, we watched a lot of “Bones.” It’s an easy show to just put on and have playing in the background. It’s familiar enough for us that we don’t have to pay super close attention, but entertaining enough that we can just sit and binge it if we feel like it. Most of Season 5 and Season 6 was watched while she was visiting…and then I just kept watching after she left.

Writing: Umm…I’ve thought about my stories in the past week, and I’m currently trying to figure out which project to focus on for Camp NaNoWriMo in July…I’m thinking either Harbingers of Death or Sink Your Teeth Into Some Good Books.

Now these are both working titles, but Harbingers is basically a Valkyrie and a Banshee meet and then keep running into each other on the battlefield and off, and follows the relationship that forms from it all. And then Sink Your Teeth is a cozy paranormal/fantasy about a woman who decides to become a vampire so she has the time to get through her TBR and also spends her time traveling to different bookish aesthetic locations because she can.

I’m liking the idea for both of them. Harbingers feels like it’s going to end up with a f/f relationship and at the moment I’m thinking Sink Your Teeth is just going to focus on platonic relationships, although side characters might have romances and such. I don’t know.

But I don’t know which one to focus on…or do I work on both and just bounce back and forth depending on which one I want to write each day?

Other: So, while my mom was here we went bowling, and as it turned out there was a special going on, so we got two games for only $5 each. This photo is from the first game of the two. Then we went to this awesome local wine bar that sadly was closing and mom just happened to visit on its final weekend, so we went for one last charcuterie board and a couple rounds of drinks. I finally got to take her to the local coffee shop that we really like going to. They had a lemon cappuccino as a current special and I tried it, and it was surprisingly very lemony but also pretty tasty. And mom had looked up this nature preserve with some hiking trails and a few caves, so we decided to check that out. It was fun…but probably would have been better if we hadn’t gone right after a rain, because it was muggy and the bugs were everywhere. Oh well. It was still a fun time.

Oh…and we’re trying to finish off a Pathfinder 2E Session Zero/One-Shot so we can bring another player into our Beginner Box campaign, so that’s where our evening is being spent today…and if that finishes early enough then we’ll probably play some more Diablo IV.

David

Okay so I don’t have as much going on, but at the same time a lot going on. Been focused a lot on getting prints through the printers.

Printing: Been printing a bunch of the cinderwings toys in a bunch of different colors in preparation. It has been consuming a lot of our time making sure we are all set up for summer market.

Gaming: The other big reason why its been busy is the couple of games that have come out recently that we are playing. I am playing Tears of the Kingdom still quite a bit, or at least I was until we got our copies of Diablo 4 yesterday.

So many quest and so little time we managed to play for over 12 hours and there is still so much to do and we are excited to keep it going. We got to get back to it here soon. I chose to start of playing a Rogue and Sam started off playing the Druid. Both are fun so far and have only just finished the Act 1 of the story.

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Well, that is all from us for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and we’ll be back soon with more geeky content.