Discouragement
I think my marigold seedlings probably got frosted last night; they are not looking at all happy. I suspect the trouble is that they were still in the shallow tray. Fortunately I had not put the tomatoes out -- although since the surface of the balcony is currently warm to the touch in the sunshine and the indoor temperature is still only 55F, I have them outside at the moment!
I have typed up about half of Chapter 2 of "Ashes", and it is clearly going to be far too long (four and a half thousand words already, and we have at least three more major plot points to cover; in fact very little has actually happened yet). It will almost certainly need to be cut heavily and/or split, but I don't think that simply splitting it is going to solve anything :-( I suppose I shall need to go through yet again and try to pare it back to focus on the actual original vision for the scene, as opposed to all the embellishments that seemed like a good idea at the time...
( Gloom )
Pages on AO3 continue to fail to load on a regular basis, which is particularly awkward if you are trying to submit any kind of data (e.g. edits or reviews), but apparently the problem is not actually at this end for once... ("known performance issues")
I have typed up about half of Chapter 2 of "Ashes", and it is clearly going to be far too long (four and a half thousand words already, and we have at least three more major plot points to cover; in fact very little has actually happened yet). It will almost certainly need to be cut heavily and/or split, but I don't think that simply splitting it is going to solve anything :-( I suppose I shall need to go through yet again and try to pare it back to focus on the actual original vision for the scene, as opposed to all the embellishments that seemed like a good idea at the time...
( Gloom )
Pages on AO3 continue to fail to load on a regular basis, which is particularly awkward if you are trying to submit any kind of data (e.g. edits or reviews), but apparently the problem is not actually at this end for once... ("known performance issues")