Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

So, I'm not the biggest fantasy fan. There are certain fantasy series that I enjoy , but if it comes down to it, the only genre that I dislike more than I dislike fantasy is probably sci-fi. I don't know why; maybe it's because I really don't give a shit about worldbuilding and both fantasy and sci-fi have huge writing hard-ons for telling me a bunch of shit I don't really care about, but whatever it is: as a general rule, I don't like fantasy. One of the exceptions, for me, though, to the fantasy thing, is Cinda William Chima's Shattered Realms  series. It's a spin-off of the Seven Realms series, which I did enjoy, but it hasn't ended up one of my all-time favorites, you know. There's something about the Shattered Realms series that the first series didn't have, and that thing is, probably, Evan Strangward. It's a character thing, yeah, I don't get intensely fascinated with certain characters as much as I did when I was fourteen,...

May 26, 2016 And it's back to work tomorrow [INSERT: Arby's, at this point]  & I KIND OF hate that. Like, & it's L---- tomorrow & I don't really know what to do or what's going on or ughh. & I think J--'s the one who will send people home early & not L----- & What stresses me out the most is the fact that I have no clue what's going on with scheduling. Aurora Dimitre Perfect Government - NOFX The Swap - Greg Moriarty 

I have read five books this month. That's not like, awful; I've had worse months (even this year--February, AKA "The Month of War and Peace"  was the actual worst), but I'm steadily declining now. This is like... I mean, I'm still sticking to my book buying restrictions, so it's not going to really hurt my progress on the Book Wall Shrinkage, but, you know, it's hurting my progress on the Book Wall Shrinkage. So in March, after I finished War and Peace on like the first day of the month, I read nineteen books. That is a good number. That's a number I can be proud of. Anything less than ten is where I start to really question myself--and right now, while I'm near the end, I'm reading IT , which, yeah, is long, but I've read that book in four days before? It's like, taking me ten years this time. And I know--I've got more stuff going on now. I have a full-time job, I have a lot of writing stuff happening, and, you know, the ...

While it's still getting cold at night, it's almost always hitting at least seventy during the day, now. The grass is green and dandelions are sprouting up  everywhere ; walks are no longer terrible and my arms and face are getting tan--and I don't have to wear leggings underneath shorts and skirts and dresses, so my legs can start tanning up, too. ( I know, I know, Aurora, why don't you wear sunscreen , that's important, sunscreen , that is one of my major unhealthy habits, is no sunscreen ever.) But it's nice out. I guess it's technically spring, but I tend to associate spring with the possibility of snow, and while I guess there is still the possibility of snow, this feels like summer. Summer, I know, hits eighties nineties sometimes low one hundreds--but this feels like summer. School is ending--though nobody's actually in school, online classes are ending? Now Steven is a lot happier, with that weight lifted off his shoulders. But everyone is ...

Author's Note: Another retired short story! As always, short stories are not really my forte but I sure do try. This one, I'm pretty sure, was written to be submitted to The First Line and, obviously, they didn't take. 

My go-to answer for this has always been 'fun', because if it wasn't fun, I don't think I'd have stuck with it for so long. Writing (and, to an extent, reading, because the two kind of go hand-in-hand) is what I have been doing for as long as I can remember. I don't remember a time when I couldn't read, and my mom has little 'stories' that I don't remember writing, because I wrote them when I was too young. But writing just for fun, while completely valid, isn't quite it, right? Because if it was, then I would be perfectly fine with just letting everything rot on my hard drive. And let's be clear here--I have a lot rotting on my hard drive right now. I have about a million first drafts I've never touched a second time, though I've been looking through them, because once I finish my current rewrite I've got to figure out what's next--but also I'm going to need to start re-writing the second Tinon book, if I want to se...

While I've stopped my subscription as of now (I do have one more coming, just because I didn't cancel my subscription in time to stop it, which I'm not entirely upset about, because it's a good box, I just wanted to try another subscription box and it's forty bucks a month), I subscribed to the Metalhead Box for a while. I will say--as far as subscription boxes go, it is a good fucking box. It's based in Canada, for someone in the US it cost me around forty dollars a month, and honestly--with a t-shirt, two CDs, and various other things (like, for example, DVDs, collectibles, patches, pins)--that's a pretty good deal for what you're putting into it. Over my run of subscribing, they sent out two DVDs: Lords of Chaos and Heavy Trip .  Now these movies could not be any more fucking different, right. I watched both of them recently (we're not going to mention that we got Lords of Chaos uhhh, last October), and honestly? I did enjoy them both. Lords...

Sunday night, I had DND. Since the whole coronavirus thing started, DND has been online, which means that it's been every Sunday instead of every other Sunday, we start an hour later, sometimes we go for longer because nobody (me) has to commute--either way, I had DND, I was all set up at my desk with my computer showing our current map, attached to Discord on my phone, one of my drawers pulled out to throw dice into. And after the night wore down I was looking around on my computer. I was digging through some of my old project folders, because I have a lot of projects that are not Iscariot that I have written and rewritten--most notably, there's OMSS, which was my last query-project before I swapped to my WM3 project, but there's also a weird little thriller, and a weird little fantasy. And I was reread the weird little fantasy. I'm not a fantasy fan. I'm really not. Especially not high fantasy--I just can't really get into it. And so I was re-reading this,...