I’m not quite at the midpoint of the week so far, but I’ve made some good progress already.
I’ve got a good sketch for my antagonist, and my potential love interest is starting to shape up. I’m having a hard time giving him too many layers, but we’ll get there. I don’t want anyone to be too black and white. I need to work out a rough sketch of at least one other person – another female student who will be a mini-villain for the book.
The story itself is taking form as well. I can see bits and pieces of it, and I have a sense of the general story arc. Sub-plots are still foggy, but I’ll get there.
I’ve signed up for three workshops with MUSE this year – or at least, I think I have. The deadline in the agenda for registration is the 20th, but based on the emails sent out by the organizer, it sounds like she wanted people to register earlier. Worst case, she tells me it’s too late. It’s my first year, and I’m not sure what to expect other than that it will be a lot of work Oct 12-18.
The 12th is Canadian Thanksgiving, so that’ll give me maybe that day to get a leg up on the whole thing.
I’m going to take a workshop with an author whose blog I read. She’s blogged about the conference in the past. It should be interesting to interact with her in this context.
That’s all that I’ve accomplished writing-wise this week.
Otherwise, DDO is awesome and I’m loving the depth to the dungeons. It’s definitely sucking up quite a bit of time – for better or worse. I’m really happy to be spending that time gaming with my partner. 
I’ve got a new recipe for muffins that I’m really excited to try out tonight. I’m becoming quite a baking fiend. I think I need to get back into the rhythm of cooking real meals as well. I bought the most recent issue of Real Simple and it comes with 20 different dinners to try out over the course of a month. I won’t use them all, but I’d like to try most of them, I think.
My partner and I are really keen to set up our own review website. We’d post up our thoughts on the various cultural items that we cross paths with – primarily books, television, video games and movies, not necessarily in that order. We’ve talked about it a lot, but not really done anything to make it happen. I think that’s an important to do to add to my list.
General To Dos:
Turn office into exercise space
Turn library into joint office-library
Set up exercise schedule – something to ease myself back into a routine
Finish reading Vampire Academy 4
Read Orthodoxy for Book Club
Identify an approach for the review website
