Daily Writing Check-in

[cherrystark]

Cars
Forensic Anthropology
Medical-stuffs
Weaponry
Martial Arts
Music Theory & Instruments
Middle English
Medieval Europe
Fairy Tales
English Literature
Victorian England

I love this. haha! A lot of these are also the random subjects that I enjoy. I'm really tempted to go back to school to get an anthropology degree because Bones (and Kathy Reichs) made the subject so interesting. Learning is a blast when you don't have to do it for grades.

Right now, knitting/yarn crafts and foreign language trees are striking my study interest.

[blackorchid]

I will admit that one in particular is not mine, but my best friend's. They have a masters in it and have worked like Bones does. From what they have said, the science is solid, the rest of it, and I agree, is terrible. Doesn't stop me from watching it though.

I have had so many people offer to teach me that to do those kind of crafts, but it awakes an internal rage and beast that I rather let lie. LOL

[blackorchid]

I have my issues with George RR Martian as a writer, but he wasn't wrong for the use of his curse words.

I mean, things are far, far older than we give them credit for.

For instance
The idea of 'who wears the trousers in the relationship' Medieval, at least
'Women are cats,' MEDIEVAL

Bros before Hoes, trust your dog more than humans, SO FREAKING OLD.

The rants I could get into!

[domisotto]

Anthropology is really really cool. One of my secret passions are the early humanoids. I don’t understand much, but i adamantly follow the news from that area of research lol.

[cherrystark]

I have had so many people offer to teach me that to do those kind of crafts, but it awakes an internal rage and beast that I rather let lie. LOL

I like the repetitive nature of loom knitting but the crafting rage monster is real. Thank goodness for YouTube videos. haha. My parents raised with the Yankee spirit of "I can do it myself". We do make a lot of things ourselves but some of the more detailed work like knitting or crocheting, my mom refused to learn those crafts because of the rage monster.

[blackorchid]

My goodness, my brain is so all over the place. I'm not typing well. Haha.

I've recently taken to 3-D printing. The work of peeling the supports off the models has been quite relaxing. I hope to paint them soon. I think that may be my extent. Needles and I have a contemptuous relationship.

edit
Since you had mentioned fashion earlier, here's the dictionary I was talking about:
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/dictionary/

[cherrystark]

Aside from my perfectly normal, morbid fascination with death like most women I know, I really like studying the cultures. There are so many aspects of human cultures that inter-relate that's so interesting to me. There are some Native American traditions that have ties to both Nordic and Judaic traditions that are super interesting.

[domisotto]

I love random research papers, like 30% of Europenian women who have Neanderthal genes have more children/easier childbirth, right next to an article that assures me that Neanderthal child rearing practices were similar to modern humans, and they had shown to have older mothers/younger fathers than modern humans at the time...

[cherrystark]

Now the European side of me wants to know if I have Neanderthal genes!!! haha

[blackorchid]

For the little I know, the closer south you are, the more likely. For instance, Italy is said to be pretty strong. I'd have to double check.

[cherrystark]

Most of my ancestors are Scandinavian with a few loose ties to Russia and the Romanov family. A few did make it down to France and Switzerland.

[blackorchid]

Well that's cool.

Any of you researching anything fun at the present?

[domisotto]

Just writing atm, because I am close to the end of the book, but I had to look up a lot for this one, despite it being a complete bogus. But it all started with a show on Yamnaya (which I recently saw people criticize, but they were too late!)

So, what went into my story was Pontic-Caspian region, Yamnaya, CRISPR and proto-indo-europenian language... and like some vague teen memories about a certain pop-band.

Lol, I feel almost embarrassed, but that's how my mind works.

[blackorchid]

That sounds cool.

I get lost in vortexes of research all the time. I personally like the touch and love it when I can tell a writer has done research of their own.

Earlier in the year, I was on a massive endeavor about carrying capacities of different animals in comparison to various forms of vehicles. I also learned the differences between a wagon, carriage, cart etc. Fun times.

[domisotto]

I bet!

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I managed to prep tomorrow’s update, yay! And ended at 54.1K total, so getting to my 1K per day minimum.

Plus, I screwed around with changing the title of the book, hoping to get a bit better views. It is now called Lone Werewolf, to maybe avoid the omega verse vibe.

I also put a dramatic quote at the beginning of the description...

right now I am in the darkest portion of the book, and almost finished with a fantasy storyline scene, about to swing back to the relationship bit, before I move to the last fantasy scene, then it is basically the romantic scene and the final sequence. Which I actually have in stages this time, lol.

Should be slightly over 60K, I think

[Zaboem]

NaNoWriMo Update: Although I'm half-pleased with my project as a story, the wordcount is looking grim. At 16,000 words, I'm only about a 3rd done with less than half the month to go. My next four days will be slammed with work also. So, I've decided to bring the Xenomicon out of retirement. That's my parody series in which my Alien Fiction characters rill on an episode of a volunteer's series. I knock out these goofy satire episodes very quickly since it's the easiest thing to author ever. I need some volunteers.

Novels are preferred for the word count, but comics are an option. If you have a thick skin and think some free publicity cannot hurt (you poor fools), then I'm offering this service as a Novel-Writing-Month exclusive service.

[blackorchid]

That's so exciting! Good for you!

I'm around 20k words for the story right now. I'm quite pleased with the progression, since I just started a couple weeks ago and have been doing a lot of research for it. A lot, please, send sanity.

[Zaboem]

I sent a care package full of sanity. It got returned to sender. Apparently, I don't want it, you don't need it, and the post office won't touch it.

Seriously though, that does seem like an impressive degree of research. Are you writing a non-fiction project?

[blackorchid]

No.

Gods, I wish. I feel like that would justify it but really it's more that I need to know. Difference between English, French, and Italian cuts on dresses, in the Georgian and/or Victorian era, I got you, fam.

Want a recipe for a hair pomade made out of bear fat, I've got a book on it.

The carrying capacity of mules, oxen, dogs, or cows, this I also know.

[domisotto]

Heh, I know how you feel and on 20K words!