...It's really sad that this is what prompts me to give a life update.

1. Yesterday Muu was checked into urgent care on account of exhaustion and dehydration. Boo! The duckling is fine for now (I think) but is taking the next two days off from school/work. Yay for sick time!

2. My weapon of choice, Hekiko, refused to interface with iTunes recently, prompting first a flurry of trying new programs (two) and then ultimately reinstalling when one wouldn't interface with apple, and the otherone couldn't show non-roman characters or allow for editing of pre-existing playlists. But the fresh reinstall has helped.

3. I've started up Final Fantasy XI again. I'll come up for air in a few months, and let you all know how it is.

4. Gumi is coming up to Seattle in very less than a month. Very excited.

May Writing Meme: Day 19

19. Do you write long stories, short stories, or both? What's challenging about writing a particular story length?

My stories range from 100~30,000 words, with most clustering between 500~3,000 words. So that would mostly be shorter stories.

The challenge with the shortest stories particularly with length restrictions (drabbles, double drabbles, single sentence stories), is keeping the prose vivid and full of detail, while also making sure that the syntax and sentence structures remains intact enough that it's not just a glop of pretty words.

Longer stories, the issue becomes about making sure that all the bits of the story logically flow with one another. How does the pacing work? Do the payoffs near the end of the story have a logical set up earlier? Then of course, there's the joy of trying to keep the momentum going to finish longer stories.


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