11 | half past eleven pm

[verylongfarewell]

Today has been... a day.

In Denmark, today is a national holiday and so, my girlfriend was home from work. She's still working on her article, though, while I did some editing on my Lilith short story - then over lunch, we came to discuss an old writing project we had actually planned to start this year, but my accident with my leg got in the way. Still, today while talking about these old characters and the concept that we know so well, we just looked at each other and went: is now the time?

My gf is going on summer hols in all of July, so if we start the work during that month, we should have a lot of opportunity to make some good leeway on it before she has to return for work again. So, I think we'll be doing that. I'm looking forward to to it so much, I've wanted us to write this project for a long, long time and my OIFDEO project that is mostly finished at this point all points towards this as the next step.

Writing something with her again and in Danish, too, will be such a joy. I am beginning to make preparations now, getting into the headspace of the character I'll be writing (the story is an epistolary exchange and we each write the letters from our own character, mine is Marie-Claude) and just... getting a feel for what is going on in her life around this time in the story.

No official working title yet, but in my mind I'll call it ESVST (Danish: Er Sproget Vores Sidste Tilflugtssted), in English: LIOLR (Language Is Our Last Refuge) which is a line from the Luxembourgish poet, Anise Koltz' poetry. I'll be using Koltz a lot, because my character is a big fan of her work.


I also was going to watch that Zuka musical with a friend today and I managed to get halfway through it, before my foot got so swollen, I had to stop. However, it was not just my foot... the past week, I've been in a funk, stressed and sad and I didn't know why. My gf was an angel today and sat me down and we talked it through and I've probably been triggered for some time on social parameters, so we managed to land some things and I feel better now. Not 100% fine, but better.

Social interaction will probably never be easy for me. Neither IRL or online. It just hits too many old traumas. I'm getting better, but sometimes it feels like no progress at all.


I made this icon for the ESVST project! It's my character, Marie-Claude, and her brother-figure, Jean Louis, reflecting each other. I'm really satisfied with it! I also made one with Marie-Claude and her speech-writer/future girlfriend, Sasha, but I'll save that one for next time. :3


I hope to get my hands on this notebook for this writing project. I have designated notebooks, thematically or aesthetically fitting the concept of the project in mind, for all my stories and I think this should be the one for Marie-Claude's stuff. I'll see if I can find it in the stores. Otherwise, I'll have to get it online, I guess.


Now I'm tired. Think it's time I went to bed. Goodnight!

Comments

[fox_in_me]

This kind of writing — through sending letters — feels very reflective to me.
It’s something from the past now, even the idea of mailing each other.
I’m not sure, but I’d recommend you check out the story Loneliness in the Net. It’s mostly based on real events.
I had a very similar experience in the past.
Wishing you success!

[verylongfarewell]

Thank you! Letter-writing is my favourite writing format, even if today we prefer e-mails and text messages, both in the literary sense and in real life. I still love getting letters in my mailbox, although it, naturally, happens very rarely.

[soricel]

It's so cool that you write with your partner! My partner pretty much only does academic writing, which I help with when/how I can, but writing fiction together seems like it would be really fun. :)

[verylongfarewell]

It is a lot of fun. We've done it as long as we've known each other, at this point it's almost a love language, to be honest. This is, however, the first time we undertake a "serious" novel writing project, it's mostly been online roleplaying and short stories and the like before. I'm hoping we won't suddenly run into trouble in regards to working together.