Keely's Way: 7/08/2024
Writing explorations and Keely gets a wedgie!
It continues to be July. I’m still amazed by the fact we have well and truly crossed the Rubicon halfway mark for the year. Whaaaaaaat?
Recap
I’m in a “pause” for my fiction stories right now. Dragon’s Grail arc 2, The Lost City, begins posting later this week though! And I’m almost at the point of restarting posting for Transmigrated Teri too. In the meantime:
Grieving Futures is wrapped on Patience & Fortitude!!!!!!!!! The final chapter of Grieving Futures: Surviving the Deaths of My Parents is “The Happy Ending” which is, I think, actually a fairly upbeat sign off. It’s also short, so there’s that.
The teaser for Dragon’s Grail arc 2, The Lost City, has been posted. The story launches on Ream tomorrow! It will only be available for subscribers at this point; I’ll start posting free chapters for followers in August.
Do you follow me on instagram? You should! I post my #CoffeeWithKimBoo shorts there (as well as on YouTube) and most importantly, regular photos of Keely!!! My tag for her is #JustKeelyThings.
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Writing
Still chugging through Transmigrated Teri, and learning more about the character as I go. When I start a story, I usually just have a broad brush stroke of understanding about the main characters, a few details here and there, and a possible character arc in mind. What I have to do is write the story to figure out who that person is, and often that doesn’t happen until after about 10k words.
Teri has been tough because while in some aspects I understand her motivations entirely, in others they have been a complete mystery to me. I enjoy figuring these things out as I go, but it’s super aggravating sometimes!
It’s a Keely-Boo World
We’re still hiding from the sun and the heat index around here! Which means our evening walks happen after 8pm, since the heat index is usually still over 100°F until then. UGH.
Keely is also experiencing a tiny bit of “lady leakage” so I’ve started putting her in doggy diapers.
She has never worn clothes before, and she’s not happy about it. The first couple of days she walked around like she had a wedgie…which, to be far, she sorta did. Those diapers are very well padded! This is her opinion of them in general:
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