Life news this week:
- Saturday I did my blogging relatively early and texted my sister 'cause it was her birthday! Tried to play DDR but only got partway through my intended games because one of the buttons broke. Worked on singing practice. Did a bunch of research for drawing references for my story characters and got two of them done before I got too tired to keep going.
- Sunday I did some laundry and other chores, and I learned a song for the band, sent a Polo to Meg, and spent the rest of the day just sketching, inking, and coloring drawings of characters for the new story.
- Monday I got up early because I fell asleep early. Went to a meeting, edited a letter, and dealt with subconsultants. Then it was back to drawing. Also met up with Kari and took a walk, did some aerobics, and did more drawing.
- Tuesday I worked on a technical paper at work and that took up a bunch of the day. Other than that I just did more work on silly drawings.
- Wednesday I did organizational tasks at work. Also worked on editing my short-story-turned-novella, sang the song I learned Sunday on the karaoke website, got some chores done, sent in a query, and did some aerobics. Jeaux came and we visited Lowe's, ate at Mandola's, and grocery shopped. Then he fixed my DDR pad and we showed each other the usual silly internet things. After he left I drew a little more.
- Thursday I had more miscellaneous stuff at work. I doodled a silly comic with my characters, wrote my webcomic storyboard, and did some walking and reading. (I've been skipping reading a lot this week.) Then I went to Game Night and played with my friends. After work I tried to work on a synopsis for a publisher but I got too tired and went to sleep.
- Friday I finished the synopsis before going in to work. I had a meeting and some reports to do. I worked on my story some more and then drew my comic. Played DDR because my pad is fixed. Sent a Polo to my crit partner Ben and did some more work on my story.
New Reviews:
- Haley gave The Invisible Orientation a two-star review on Goodreads.
Health Plan Update:
- Nutrition stuff: I got my three servings of fruits and veggies every day this week, and met my protein goals six out of seven days--the restaurant day involved pizza, so as per usual, the higher-fat foods won out. I am still taking my vitamins.
- Activity stuff: I'm continuing to do DDR or aerobics every other day. I made my 10,000-step walking goal every day this week. Based on my phone's app, my low day was Sunday at 10,108 steps, and my high day was Wednesday at 12,811 steps.
Books Read:
- Finished Reading: Nothing this week.
- Currently Reading: The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Yee. I'm on page 288.
Stuff drawn:
I drew a LOT this week but not all of them will be posted--just trying to go backwards drawing pictures of characters so I can then go back into the story and get their descriptions a little more consistently. (I'm bad at remembering to include visuals.) Here are the character cards for the new characters from In Your Favor with whom I've been spending a lot of my time lately. (Want to try to guess who's the protagonist?)
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And here is a group doodle I did to try to figure out their heights and colors:
My weekly fantasy webcomic, Negative One:
Videos Made:
None.
New photos:
None.
Social media counts:
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