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Ugh. I've reached a point in Queen of Swans where I just don't want to work on it anymore. It's not that I dislike the project, it involves a lot of things I do like, I just sit down and look at it and feel "yeah, good words are on the screen, I guess, but they're totally soulless." I haven't wanted to work on it the past week. At all.

I don't know why. There's still a lot of awesome to get around to (like, oh, the entire masquerade), but right now it's like I need a buzzer sitting to my left that instead of buzzing goes "you know that bit about Swans? IT'S AWESOME." So maybe I will go "oh right. It is awesome. Thanks!" and keep going.

Also I should maybe read some romance because I've totally lost the cadence for a non-adventure book with a nonsarcastic lead. I'd say lesbian romance but lesbian fic tends to be hit or miss, either really painfully accurate like the community in Alyx Dellamonica's The Cage (which also wins for being maybe the best werewolf story I've ever read) or it is... really... jarring. I won't say bad, because it's not necessarily bad, just full of really bizarro turns of phrase. I'm sure some people will make an argument for "so ugly it's beautiful" but I am firmly in the "it's ugly" camp.

So this is me. Putting off writing some more. Maybe I'll go write some cyborg mermaids or something instead so I don't feel like I've totally wasted the day.....