It's been about three months since my last update post, and I feel like so much has happened. In terms of reading, I don't have anything new to share -- in July I re-read Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series, and cried over it a lot more than I usually do at the positive, supportive models of friendship -- Neal, Clean, Lalasa, Owen!! Why have I never really noticed Owen before? Anyway, after finishing those I went into a bit of a reading slump. My grandma lent me a 21-book romance series that I hate-read (ask me my opinions on how conservative-propaganda small-town romances actually link back to socialism). In all, I read a ton but nothing that I want to write about here. Since June, I got halfway into revisions of my Brigadoon-inspired WIP before losing steam. For a couple weeks, writing felt like pulling teeth, and I wasn't happy with any of the results. Because of that, I switched back to my monster-girl WIP. I did a 3-week cut pass and am feeling pretty ...
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