Between clear roads, beautiful skies, and the aforementioned highlights, it was a good day. The draft I have discarded, though I still count it towards my writing for the day, was supposed to be a piece of hopeful defiance against dark shadows of my past, but came across as more of an angry tirade; hardly the emotion I intended to evoke. In purest summary: I am grateful for my family, and hold no regrets about the choices I’ve made in regards to them; I defy any who claim I should have made more choices bolstering my career rather than my family, because my family is a far better investment than a career that will inevitably end. Again: I hold no regrets regarding the strong family bond that I have been blessed to forge.
I believe a phrase I’d formulated at the end went like this: “With the iron of blood, the heat of tears, and the tempering of time are the links of our bonds are forged. The question is: what bonds are you forging for yourselves? Will they save you from a fall, or drag you under the waves?”
Anyway, this morning I am sitting here with our smaller hound snoozing in my lap, and my youngest playing with a variety of toys, narrating the happenings of her imaginary toys in her adorable toddler voice. Earlier, I updated my profile for a job application and contacted a few past coworkers to alert them that they appeared on my references list. Of course, I’d already been granted permission to do so, but this was to give them a margin of preparedness should they be contacted. Later, I will be doing more of the same with various companies. And in the immediate, I will be consuming my daily coffee whilst working on my novel draft.
I’ve finally managed to convince myself that I should generally ignore the conversations in-Orcish, other than the primary content, and leave the translating for a later phase. I may eventually include the actual Orcish exchanges, but for the time being, I’ll merely concern myself with what is said, rather than how it is said. With that, hopefully I’ll be able to complete the chapter enough to send it to my beta reader & get her input. Based on her feedback on other, exocanonical segments I’ve shown her, it should be interesting to see what she has to say.
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