Completion day
Mar. 11th, 2026 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baroque_mongooseIf anyone is confused about yesterday's post, I should point out that I'm talking about version 3.5. Someone clearly noticed that when they were re-jigging to version 5 and tweaked the Prestidigitation spell so that it just cleaned one 30 cm cube worth of stuff per cast, rather than per round. There are many reasons why I like 3.5 better than 5, and this is a new one.
Anyway, yesterday was a day of finishing things. Most importantly, I finished the first draft of the book; it will require a full edit, and I also need to rewrite the ending significantly (the book starts with the death of the evil Lord Solgliss, and there are some really good plot reasons why it should end with the death of his widow, loth as I am to kill her off, because she's a really nice person who did not deserve to be stuck with Solgliss and his awful mistress for all that time), but I have at any rate got to the point where there is a readable story. Once I'd finished, it all rather caught up with me and I felt very tired, but now I already have plot bunnies chasing me for the next book in the series! I just had one spark of inspiration in January, and I had absolutely no idea it was going to turn into a trilogy. (No, I am not going to start on that yet. I have far too much else to do.)
I have also finished that terrifyingly intricate capital B - well, let me qualify that; I have finished copying the line art. I now have to paint it. Even so, that's a lot more than I thought I could do, so I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself. The painting starts today, and that won't be quick either, but at any rate I have the fine detail brushes to do it. I will not be using an identical colour scheme to the original, but it will probably be broadly similar.
And, as if all that wasn't enough, I also finished one string bag and one baby hat yesterday. Inevitably, there's now another string bag on the netting frame and another baby hat on the needles, because that never stops. But still, finishing one always feels good.
Today I've got a course assignment to finish. I think I can manage that!
Anyway, yesterday was a day of finishing things. Most importantly, I finished the first draft of the book; it will require a full edit, and I also need to rewrite the ending significantly (the book starts with the death of the evil Lord Solgliss, and there are some really good plot reasons why it should end with the death of his widow, loth as I am to kill her off, because she's a really nice person who did not deserve to be stuck with Solgliss and his awful mistress for all that time), but I have at any rate got to the point where there is a readable story. Once I'd finished, it all rather caught up with me and I felt very tired, but now I already have plot bunnies chasing me for the next book in the series! I just had one spark of inspiration in January, and I had absolutely no idea it was going to turn into a trilogy. (No, I am not going to start on that yet. I have far too much else to do.)
I have also finished that terrifyingly intricate capital B - well, let me qualify that; I have finished copying the line art. I now have to paint it. Even so, that's a lot more than I thought I could do, so I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself. The painting starts today, and that won't be quick either, but at any rate I have the fine detail brushes to do it. I will not be using an identical colour scheme to the original, but it will probably be broadly similar.
And, as if all that wasn't enough, I also finished one string bag and one baby hat yesterday. Inevitably, there's now another string bag on the netting frame and another baby hat on the needles, because that never stops. But still, finishing one always feels good.
Today I've got a course assignment to finish. I think I can manage that!
