New thread for a new month!
Day 1: Okay, exhausted, nope.
Day 2: Do it scared, do it badly, do it **bored**. Plus I have a new pen.
#Maytober2024 #LikeInktoberButMay #FanFicNotDrawingsSorry #XenobladeX

Day 3. I pre-wrote notes in my notebook, to encourage myself. No, past self, I am fixing nothing right now. I am preparing to break my guy.

#XenobladeX #Maytober2024

Day 4. This ink (yama-budo) is almost too vivid in the pen but so good on the page.

#Maytober2024

Day 5. Struggling to put in enough environmental details so I don't have to spell out what is going on. Lucky will figure it out tomorrow.

#Maytober2024

Day 6 no pix. But Lucky now knows his problem is bigger than writer's block. Can you have aphasia but for music?

#Maytober2024 #HeWillBeFine

Day 7. It's called amusia I think. Anyway, did a page.
#Maytober2024
Day 8. I didn't want to write today because bored and also I had to make a favorite character be a flawed person. Rosalee loves her brother. But she really wishes he'd be less, you know, like that.
#Maytober2024

Day 9. Sick of this scene and got the bright idea of having my guy need to leave abruptly. Don't need to resolve what the character won't stick around for.

#Maytober2024 no photo you'll have to trust me

Day 10. Not quite a page but I set up the briefing. Not really clear what they will say though ha ha ha this is fine. Action shot!
#Maytober2024
Day 11. One page, one. Lucky is a little sidetracked. I swear I will start the briefing any minute now.

Day 12. I did as much of the briefing as I want to do. Next up: preparation montage!! Any suggestions for Reclaimers to take on the mission appreciated (not Elma). #Maytober2024 #XenobladeX #Reclaimers

PS: for a 99 cent notebook, this is doing very well.

Day 13. Lucky plans his team. TWSBI Eco T I'm trying to empty because new ink is coming. Black ink but a Different black ink.

#Maytober2024

Day 14. I had a whole long argument planned between Lucky and his sister, and you know what? I skipped it. Mission begins.
#Maytober2024 #StuffIDontNeed
Days 15-16. As a pants writer, I am becoming increasingly pleased with having Rosalee as a teammate. I chose her because I didn't want to introduce two new characters, and it is connecting somehow. (No pic from the 15th but trust me.)
#Maytober2024 #PantsOrPlan
Day 17 How can you still lay down so much dialogue??? You have almost no ink!!!
#Maytober2024 #TWSBI #YouMonster

Day 18. How is this pen still going? More dialogue and also snacks. Tomorrow they start digging.

#Maytober2024

Day 19. Pen refilled, dialogue complete, digging in earnest. Shin-kai isn't great against sparkling water.
#Maytober2024 #Iroshizuku
Day 20. Featuring rude poetry. Tomorrow I'm hurting people.
#Maytober2024 #HerbinPerleNoire
Day 21. **Tomorrow** I'm hurting people. Today the sand got crispy.
#Maytober2024
Day 22. Two things: really didn't want to write this bit because I had to hurt Lucky/Diego and Rosalee.
And I wrote silly remarks in my notebook the fiest day I had it. I was tempted to drop a piano through the roof tbh.
#Maytober2024
Day 23. I typed up a little of the story from April. Meanwhile Lucky is ready and eager to resume digging.
#Maytober2024

Day 24. Another pre-written prompt in my notebook. Lucky took off his jacket, best I was going to do.

#Maytober2024

Day 25. They found a wall in the sand. Digging intensifies, because I'm tired of the story. Also tired of this ink. I will replace it with ... more black ink.
#Maytober2024
Day 26. Nope.
Day 27. Still haven't emptied the pen, still haven't found the Box. Still not sure what's in the box but I better figure it out.

Day 28. They have found the door and I really REALLY need to decide what's inside. It won't be tiny sheep. (That's a different story.)

#Maytober2024 #PantsOrPlan

Day 29. I know what's behind the door.

#Maytober2024

Day 30. A little random tenderness? Why not, although I didn't manage the prompt. H.B. is easy on the eyes and a stand up guy, if annoying.
#Maytober2024 #XenobladeX #HB
Day 31. Yippee! I went 29 for 31 days, not too shabby. Enjoy an action shot.
Something is coming through the door of the wreckage and the team needs to fight.
#Maytober2024