Reminder this only lasts about 5 more hours! 👇

Well uh, Riyati book 5 has a full outline! So there's that. All praise hyperfocus and getting none of the other things I needed done this weekend done

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Something very weird with my writing/outlining process is I have a bunch of arbitrary rules: I need at least 40 chapters, at least 60k on the manuscript, generally shouldn't have 2 of the same character pov back to back w/o good reasoning and I'm realizing that these rules came about bc I'm

I'm still pushing to keep these with Ripple! CW's for this one-- implied child abuse (no young children though)

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...aaaand we're up to 5 main bullet points/events in Riyati book 6 now. I'm not moving to formally outlining it anytime soon, but uh. The ball do be rolling as I finish out book 5's outline here xD

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The cooler weather has been really helping, but man can I not wait for the 20th so I can get my medical botox again bc I'm getting tired of this every day nausea and annoying-level of pain that requires rest when I'm in the middle of a perfectly good hyperfocus

((for everyone's sanity -- including my own-- I promise to stop being a spam promo machine tomorrow, bear with me for one more day T.T)

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I'm almost done with this book 5 outline and *oh no* I wanna write it actually... I was supposed to be taking a break before diving into Recollection/bk4 dev edits in Dec...

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...okay I'm enjoying sharing snippets now that I finally put everything in Ellipsus. Trying to get a reasonable screenshot to post was causing more friction on snippet sharing than I realized, I'm noticing

I'm still pushing to keep these with Ripple! CW's for this one-- implied child abuse (no young children though)

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A study finds that deep sleep rewires the brain to eliminate anxiety. My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.

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I enjoy these post games and am jumping in as well— 1 like = 1 song from my Riyati playlist 👀

I feel like it's been a sec since I mentioned it, but if you wanna see more Riyati updates (and/or cat pictures), come join the Official Riyati Discord @ riyati.ink/discord 💙 (No really, I need more people to share cat pictures with. And more people posting cat pictures. Just saying)

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Oh geez yes. This is either my best or worst writing quality depending on who you ask. Each pov has a distinct personality-- Jordan uses a ton of cursing, slang, and contractions, Maya is more distant and logical, Kylie is more emotion focused & tactical. Jordan is many's dealbreaker

"Why am I suddenly so tired?" I ask as I've been outlining for almost 10 hours straight with only a few breaks

here is what I have planned for this upcoming week. im looking forward to streaming some more before family comes to visit.

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If you haven't seen this yet... you really should, it's so good!

Needed to do my contribution to #Caturday and it got here!!! Fiona and Random have both smelled the proof and declared it their favorite whatever ever!

I moved my electric/heated keyboard mat to the desk instead of keyboard tray for something I'm working on, and Krishna has stolen like 60% of the mat now =.= sir this isn't your new bed, thank you

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Let's see how long I can get away with just using Ripple *and* not having anything super, super spoilery with these snippets...

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It was not a good life choice ordering the oreo minipacks from costco but man have they been good while working at my desk

...nvm Riyati book 5 outline has been put on hold because @loreforge.bsky.social just got an update and has table support now. I'm going to have so many tables by the end of the day 👀

So uh. I'm working on the more formal outline for Riyati book 5 atm and I think the like Big Event of the book every other draft is going to happen closer to the first third this time. Which is actually super exciting bc we get to *go places* from there (figuratively)

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I don't know why we're having zoomies on the staircase today but apparently wrestling while zooming on the stairs is today's vibe (three way stair wrestle zoomies even)

Taion lives in my head and my sketchbooks.

So based off what I've heard from others, there's a split between Jordan, Siani, and Richard. ...so Jordan's the outlier here if anything

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Me: okay, so we have book 5 outline doneish (rough outline). But we're not starting on book 6 yet because whew I need a break once the first arc of 5 books finishes My brain: 👀 okay but WHAT IF Smh why is my brain like this???

Krishna is already done with me for the day (I keep putting my cold fingers on his tum to warm him up while he's nesting)

FUCK YES

Let's see how long I can get away with just using Ripple *and* not having anything super, super spoilery with these snippets...

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Guess who got glaze and nightshade working on her linux install (through vm but still) 👀 it's a lot slower than it was native since it's not getting access to all of my system resources BUT STILL I'm happy to have the option at least