Love Me to the Bone
Draft 1
Words Added: 1,115
What Happened in the Story: Madeline, having successfully mailed her MOST IMPORTANT NOTES to work at the Dead Letter Office, finds herself in that usual post-success slump. She decides to walk the city a bit, to get to know it better so she doesn’t feel so lost, and winds up cutting through the Requiem Gardens, a pretty city garden. After this, she wanders to the outskirts of town, and finds a little-used Kinetoscope and decides to give it a try.
Additional Notes: Phew! I was worried about today, because it’s been a minute since I was in the draft, and heaven knows how hard it is to get back on the horse after such a long break. BUT, in my defense, I had a killer 40th birthday party on Sunday (not my actual birthday, that was earlier this month) where we went to our local roller skating rink and rocked out to 90s music and ate cheap (but surprisingly good) pizza and had ice cream cake and played laser tag. It was AWESOME. We all had so much fun, and I only fell ONCE, and didn’t hurt myself, for which I was grateful.
Then Monday, Thing 2 had extensive dental work (7 fillings EEK!) under sedation, so I spent the day keeping him company and snuggling and watching Gabby’s Dollhouse and getting him soft foods to eat. He’s doing great now, but WHOOOO was he mad when he came out of the anesthesia. I do believe the phrase, “THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE” was used at least once. By 4PM, though, the rest of the anesthesia had worn off, and he was jumping and running and chipper as anything, and you’d never have guessed he had three hours of dental work done. He’s quite the trooper. Needless to say, I was emotionally and physically exhausted.
I did manage to get a good chunk of business planning/etc. done yesterday, during our recovery day (which, honestly, I don’t think he really needed, since he spent the whole day running around, crashing into things as usual, shrieking with delight, and complaining about being bored). I also brought him along when I went to sign off on my LLC paperwork, so I can now officially announce that ODDSCOPE PRESS LLC is a thing! This is the business I’ll run my Etsy shop off (The Placebo Emporium is coming back!), and sell zines and other things through. It’s not up yet, as I’m still establishing a few backend things and figuring out best next steps, but I’ll let you know when it goes live.
In the meantime, I’m just glad to be getting back on the writing horse. PHEW. So glad there were words to find in my head today…
Thanks for following along, and I hope you enjoy the ride! I’ll try and make these daily updates (on writing days), but I’ll probably miss a few now and then. Sorry about that in advance, but I’ll do my best to be consistent. If you’re craving some personal stakes in this process, feel free to toss me a “You Can Do It!” donation at my Ko-fi shop! I’m going to need a lot of coffee for this…