* All names have been changed for privacy.
This past weekend was sort of crazy. I worked all day on Friday, then spent all Friday night packing to go to Michigan. Every year around the Fourth of July, my family travels up north to a tiny lake right in the middle of Michigan. My mom and her two brothers own a cottage there that's been in the family for generations. It's small, and old, and there aren't enough beds, but there's a lake and a speedboat, and it's my favorite place to go in the summer.
Project Updates
Convergence
I am sad to admit that I did not get to work on Convergence at all this weekend, and this is how I feel about it ⬇️
I did get to work on it a bit more last week, though, so I currently have 245 words in my Second First Draft. Which is one page.
Honestly guys, I'm counting that as a win.
Fan Fiction
I did write 211 words in my fic this weekend, though! I've been stuck on Chapter 30 for months and I'm finally almost ready to send this chapter off to my beta reader. I have 86,000 words published on AO3, and 313 subscriptions, so I'm really trying to prioritize this since people are actually waiting on more.
Family Vacation
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| View from the Cottage |
Han and I arrived at the Cottage on Saturday around 4 PM after about a five hour drive. I tried to read and write a little that day, but I was too tired from the drive to focus. I ended up playing a round of Fortnite with Han and my brother, Spike, and having a debate with my dad about what side of the Cottage is the "front"–the lakefront side, or the side that faces the street.
Intuitively, I feel like the lakefront side is the "front" and the street side is the "back" but my dad made the very good point that the front door of any house always faces the street. Which makes sense, but I don't have to like it.
On Sunday, Dad ran a workout session for us–myself, my mom, Uncle Goose, my cousin Oliver, and my cousin Kara–and made us do 50 air squats, and way too many pistol squats. If you don't know what those are, you're lucky. They're horrible, and my legs felt like jelly after doing them. We got so sweaty from the workout that when it was done, we all went outside and jumped in the lake.
The water was crisp and cool, but it was sunny and hot so it felt absolutely amazing.
In the water, Oliver taught us this game that he's played in his acting classes which he called the Story Game. We all stood in a circle in the water, and each of us was allowed to say one word to continue a sentence and make it into a story.
As an example, it went sort of like this.
DAD: Once.
OLIVER: There.
UNCLE GOOSE: Was.
MOM: A.
UNCLE TECH: Porcupine.
ME: That.
KARA: Walked.
DAD: On.
OLIVER: Stilts.
Of course, my family being my family, the stories got increasingly more ridiculous and grammatically incorrect, which induced fits of uncontrollable laughter. Honestly, it was most fun when it hardly made any sense.
The rest of the day I spent reading, writing, and developing a character for Dungeons & Dragons, which we're all going to try to play together once my other cousin and my sister make their way up here.
A Poll
This is a frequent debate my parents have, so now I have to know what you guys think. Don't look up the answer, I want to know what you feel, intuitively.
I can think of worse ways to spend time than at a lake in the north country in the middle of summer. I hope the biting insects weren’t too bad.
ReplyDeleteIf the front of the cottage faces the street, then the lake is in your backyard. Fitting, I should say.
ReplyDeleteI can't answer your poll. If a friend asked me to open their backpack, and I was unclear on what pocket they wanted me to open, I would ask a clarifying question. "My front or your front?" or "What do you mean by 'front'?".
That lake sounds blissful. We played a similar game to Story Game as children but for some reason it was known as Chinese Whispers...
ReplyDeleteHaha...sounds like the vacation was fun except the workout. That would have put me in my grave
ReplyDeleteLove the Story Game!
ReplyDeleteI can't decide! I feel like the front door faces the street and is where you let people in... But if the main door that everyone uses all the time is facing the beach, that would be the front door!
And hello, fellow A03er! Which fandom are you writing in? I 'm mostly in Our Flag Means Death but have dabbled in a few others (Tolkien!)...