Scribe and Sickness

Well, I finished editing the second chapter of “Scribe and Shadow” before I realized I'd caught a stomach bug. I must have been sick yesterday, but I didn’t realize it until a frigid, rainy walk made it noticeable today. Most of this day was spent sleeping! No review post, in other words. “Humanity” (from the previous update) is the only non-MK story I intended to review, so you're not missing much. “Paradise” wasn’t entirely glowing, either, but MK is actually a decent writer with an editor who understands the difference between clauses and masturbation.

Small things like this, people. Small things like this.

Maybe some of the yellow and purple stories were good. I’ll glance at more colors in tomorrow’s update.

I realized while trying to fall asleep earlier that “Scribe and Shadow” has unusually slow pacing for an MK multi-chapter standalone. She isn't making an arc of this story. Chapter three must contain a cruelly sensible twist! I really hope so, at least, because the pacing really is slow and odd if things continue like this. Characters bonding and developing through well-written MC sessions is fine; characters doing that throughout the bulk of a story intended to relate their showdown with a major villainess is clunky.

She’ll probably finish chapter three before the middle of next week. I don't think she'll disappoint.

There were holes. Our lovely toddler of a Madam covered them up by constructing part of the shelf backwards.

~Valbot