Hey all, Sam and David back again today.
All right…no time to waste. Let’s jump into everything we’ve been up to over the last week.
Sam
Reading: Wolfsong by T.J. Klune, A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel-Writing You’ll Ever Need by Jessica Brody, Poisoned Empire by Elyse Thomson.
Okay, as of the writing of this post, I’m not completely finished with Poisoned Empire, but if tonight is a slow-ish night at work, I should definitely be finishing it today, so I’m going to go ahead and put it on my finished list.
As for current/soon-to-read books, I have The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem, Ghosted by Amanda Quain, several volumes of One Piece by Eiichiro Oda, and The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface by Donald Maass on my list. I want to try and read all of the East Blue arc for One Piece, since that is what the live-action series on Netflix is set to cover (and I may decide to watch the corresponding anime episodes as well) before the live-action series comes at the end of August. And of course, I am starting to dive into the next Weekend Writer book for those weekly deep-dive posts, so I’ll be picking that up either tomorrow or possibly Friday afternoon before the post is written/goes live. Other than that, my reads are focused on some of my planned upcoming NetGalley reviews. I’m keeping pretty busy.
Watching: “Secret Invasion” Season 1 (in progress), “Charmed” Season 3, Season 4 (in progress), “Nimona,” “The Witcher” Season 3 Part 1, “Stan Lee” (Documentary on Disney+)
Writing: My goal for Camp NaNoWriMo is 30,000 words, which is nearly 1,000 words per day. Since today is Day 5, that means I should be at 4,839 words. I haven’t completed my writing for today, as of this post being written and going live, so based on my total as of yesterday, I was at 4,042 words, all of it on the Cozy Vampire novel I’m writing. I should probably give a little focus on Harbingers, but I’m just having a delightful time with this cozy fantasy tale. I’m so used to writing high stakes and high consequences, I didn’t really realize how much fun and silly it was to just writing something that is cute and fun for the sake of being cute and fun. I’m sure there will be some stress and chaos moments (but minimal stress and chaos) later in the story, but for now the biggest problems the main character has faced was still having like 40 pages to go in a book and needing to leave to drive to book club…so she finds the audiobook through the Libby app and finishes listening to the book on her drive.
Other: We have not had nearly enough time to do other things the past few weeks, things like going bowling, or going for hikes, or playing disc golf, or even playing Diablo IV. Having opposed work schedules has made that a bit difficult. But I guess my training period is over after this week, and next week there will be a new work schedule…so maybe David and I will get a little more time together starting the next work week (which runs Sun-Sat). We’ll see.
David
Painting: So I finally got a good varnish coat on the Ultramarines. That will save the paint from wearing off with gameplay and what not. I have almost finished the Mirko, decided to go fancy and try doing some highlights to that one.
I got the new printers in and have almost finished building one of them. I have also gotten some Goblin army figures from my Loot Studios that will be painted soon enough so I am hoping to be able to use them in the near future. I know I had posted a picture before, but I am really proud of my work on these guys.
Oh and other than having some issues with the paint on the canopy I have almost gotten all of the touch ups done for that. At least it wont look like complete poo when we got it up on top of the canopy.
Playing: So I have not been able to play much over the last week when it comes to video games. However I invited Iyov, one of the kids from the Colorworld crew to play some Magic the Gathering. He kicked my butt in two games one was Standard and the other was Commander. I did manage to get him in the other game of Commander but it was still hard fought. We are hoping to play some more MTG with the Lord of the Rings cards set. I learned that he does not like Frodo at all and that Samwise is higher up on his choices of characters.
I am hoping to play some Diablo or Tears of the Kingdom later tonight, but let us be honest with prep needing to be done for the Summer Market tomorrow my geekery will once again suffer. It will be fun to hang out a bit with some of the neighborhood though.
Printing: Okay so all Cinderwings production has stopped for the moment as we inch closer to GenCon. We plan to have some goodies for Critters and non-Critters alike and since I will be in the vendor hall like 90% of the time the chances you will see at least me are likely. The new printers will be put to the test and who knows this brand might replace the one I am currently favoring.
I am planning to also expand on what I am printing here soon, I am just in need of test printing some of the new stuff we got. So look forward to a whole bunch of cool stuff guys and remember I am always up for talking shop.
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All right, that’s all from us for today. Feel free to let us know what you’ve been up to this week, because we’d love to know. Thank you so much for stopping by, and we’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
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