vacation pt2
Sep. 12th, 2025 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drak0nisSadly all good things must come to an end, and today is the last full day of my vacation. Tomorrow has check-out late in the morning, so it barely counts as a vacation day. I'm really not interested in heading back to work, but so it goes.
Vacationing on the shore of Lake Huron is wonderful for both flora and fauna. I'll miss it. There has a decent variety at home but it barely compares. I spent most of yesterday reading on the beach. I finished The Lies of Locke Lamora, an excellent book, and I'll be seeking out the sequel. I've now started Legends and Lattes, which is not an especially challenging or deep read, but is entertaining. I had worries it might suffer from a certain contemporary fantasy writing style I loathe, but fortunately it doesn't.
I've written a massive quantity of rough draft for Sulphur and Starlight. I'll be starting on Chapter 35 today, which I likely won't finish before I head home, but is still beyond my goals of finishing the draft for 34. Chapter 32 is not one of my favourite things I've written, something of a transitional chapter leading into much more exciting things. 33-34 have been outlined and existed in miscellaneous and out of sequence notes for a very long time--they essentially the basis of the fic that everything else grew around. I pray they meet my expectations and that my readers enjoy my favourite chapters as much as I do. And after 34? The final "arc", so to speak. It's crazy to think it's almost over. But, I'll be thrilled to have completed it, especially since I'm genuinely quite proud of this fic.
Rather than embed a bunch of images in this post, I've made a little album with some of the best pictures from my vacation here... primarily water, trees, and frogs, haha.
Vacationing on the shore of Lake Huron is wonderful for both flora and fauna. I'll miss it. There has a decent variety at home but it barely compares. I spent most of yesterday reading on the beach. I finished The Lies of Locke Lamora, an excellent book, and I'll be seeking out the sequel. I've now started Legends and Lattes, which is not an especially challenging or deep read, but is entertaining. I had worries it might suffer from a certain contemporary fantasy writing style I loathe, but fortunately it doesn't.
I've written a massive quantity of rough draft for Sulphur and Starlight. I'll be starting on Chapter 35 today, which I likely won't finish before I head home, but is still beyond my goals of finishing the draft for 34. Chapter 32 is not one of my favourite things I've written, something of a transitional chapter leading into much more exciting things. 33-34 have been outlined and existed in miscellaneous and out of sequence notes for a very long time--they essentially the basis of the fic that everything else grew around. I pray they meet my expectations and that my readers enjoy my favourite chapters as much as I do. And after 34? The final "arc", so to speak. It's crazy to think it's almost over. But, I'll be thrilled to have completed it, especially since I'm genuinely quite proud of this fic.
Rather than embed a bunch of images in this post, I've made a little album with some of the best pictures from my vacation here... primarily water, trees, and frogs, haha.
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Date: 2025-09-13 07:01 am (UTC)The air everywhere looks really clear, especially that one with trees and grass sandwiching the water, so much so it could just about be a painting.
Returning back to work isn't fun, but I do hope you'll be able to use it to fund more things that are.
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Date: 2025-09-13 01:37 pm (UTC)This area is right in between several conservation areas so there's very little building and it cannot expand, and there is no industry aside from some fishing. The sky is extremely clear and with do little light pollution you can see some of the milky way at night. It's fantastic.