So, you've probably noticed that this isn't structured as the normal updates are now. That's because I think I only got ~50 words down this week. As I mentioned last week, the day of the last update was my last day of quarantine, and I was set to leave for Chicago on that Saturday, just a couple of days ago. I basically spent the intervening three days trying to condense in my two week trip. It didn't work, but I still didn't really have any time to write much.

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New Words: 2,156 (19,547 total)*
Chapter Worked On: 1 - 9
Chapters Finished: 8
Notes:
--The * hints to the fact that the word count might not be quite right this week. I worked on almost every single chapter, but every chapter except an addition to 4, and 8 and 9 were done on the doc. I take the word count from Scrivner. Due to my current computer limitations, I didn't move the doc changes to Scrivner. I'll fix it before next week.

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New Words: 1,434 (17,391 total)
Chapter Worked On: 6, 8
Notes: Only over a thousand new words, but another several hundred were rewritten in chapter 6.

So, I have covid. The diagnoses was confirmed on Saturday. I'm not showing any symptoms I can notice, thank God. I have noticed a fair bit of fatigue and inability to stay strongly focused for long periods of time. That's why nothing much was written, I swear. I wasn't distracted by GDQ.

Nope.

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New Words: 2,241 (15,957 total)
Chapter Worked On: 7, 8
Chapters Finished: 7
Notes: Apparently quick is slacking on the editing. Shame.

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New Words: 3,503 (13,716 total)
Chapter Worked On: 5, 6, 7
Chapters Finished: 5, 6
Notes: Typing on the tiny keyboard blows

I was super happy with progress these last couple of weeks, until I realized how little I'd actually done. Sure, it's the biggest single week update to date, but I also didn't really do anything the last week before my trip. Since I'm in quarantine though, there isn't a whole lot more to so...

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We'll start with the good news: it is in fact Christmas day. Even with all the stupid of 2020 going on, it's important to recognize and take pleasure in what we can.

Onto the bad news. In order to try to do that, I've taken a trip back home to Kansas. I'm actually super against travel right now, but a friend of mine drive up and brought me down, limiting out contact with the outside world. We were super careful, just like last time, and had no trouble on the trip itself.

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_{of the year, probably}

duh-na-na-na, duh-na-na na-na

New Words: 1,087 (10,113 total)
Chapter Worked On: 5
Notes: Over the 10k mark, a slow start, but a start nontheless

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I know this is a day early, but I've got some exciting news to share! ^{and the next path for XIV drops tomorrow and I don't want to forget you guys.}
New Words: 1,928 (9,026 total)
Chapter Worked On: 3, 4
Chapter Finished: 4

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New Words: 2,532 (7,098 total)
Chapter Worked On: 2, 3, 4
Chapter Finished: 3
Other Notes: The working title for Chapter 3 got one of my first facepalms from quick. It's an important milestone, shut up.

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New Words: 1,397 (4,566 total)
Chapter Worked On: 2, 3
Chapter Finished: 2
Other Notes: I rewrote the ending to Chapter Two about seven times. I still hate it.

Nothing really new to report this week, except that Chicago is back in lockdown. There's a non-zero chance that I'll spend my first Christmas away from my hometown stuck in a strange city totally alone. Quick is gonna probably be out of town with his own family, so it would just be me here. I am unsure how to feel about this.

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