Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--What is your most recent POV character’s greatest hope?

Kevin Owens once more, and... oooh. He's got a conscious one (winning back the highest title in wrestling) and an unconscious one (having his former best friend trust him again).

And it's Kevin because I don't think I got any writing done at all this week and I'm really sad about it. I got a fair amount of nonfiction writing done under a fair amount of time pressure (entirely arbitrary pressure from a deadline I set myself!), but between working on that and being at my parents' house all week... it hasn't been very good for writing at all. I hope it's been better for you! Let me know what's up!

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[me_ya_ri]

Hey, I missed this. Humm, let's see. I finished the last of the 3 novels in 3 months (and the scene I was worrying about turned out to be a breeze because the girls just took it in stride. The high points were Padma breaking down over her parent's long-ago rejection of her (which included holding her at gunpoint while burning all her childhood belongings, long religious rants about how she was going to hell, and tearing every single childhood photo of her out of their photo albums, so, you know, very tough thing to get over) and the moment where the bigot at work got fired and they both got promoted and thus got to be open about their relationship with each other.

I'm super happy with how it turned out.

Now I'm working on a new novella (that was supposed to be a short story) and hmmm. Tough question. Caron is mentally ill, anxiety and paranoia. I think her greatest hope right now is just that her (asexual and mentally ill) girlfriend won't get sick of constantly reassuring her that everything is okay. Caron's goals in life are very small, poor thing. I'm hoping by the time I go through the holidays leading up to Valentine's they'll both be doing better. I'm on Halloween and they're already improved so that's good.

Hope you get back at your fiction, sweetie! Not being able to get to it is really hard.

[mithen]

Caron's goals in life are very small, poor thing.

Oh, that's a big shift for you in some ways! A lot of your recent protagonists have had some really sweeping goals. I like the shift and the contrast!

Hope you get back at your fiction, sweetie! Not being able to get to it is really hard.

It can be almost physically painful! I got about a thousand words written today, which is not a really SATISFYING amount, but a lot better than nothing!