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Long time no post, I know! June was Junelezen over on tumblr and I spent the month gposing my little heart out; if you want to take a look at what I made this year, you can see it all here!

July has been for writing. So far this month I've written 27637 words, my highest wordcount month this year by more than 100%.

Goal this month has been simple: finish the draft(s) of Harsh Light/Gentle Dark (separate but parallel fics that explore Ariane and Urianger in late and post-Heavensward) or get as close as possible. Write as many days as I can, but don't create guilt for missing a day.

One of the big things I came into this month needing to write was the Warring Triad quests, as I'd realized they needed to be incorporated into both fics but hadn't full figured out, how, where, and what they'd add to the story. Yesterday, I wrote the last Warring Triad scene I needed to write. As challenging as it was to figure out how they fit into the story, I'm really glad I did it, because Unukalhai adds a lot to both Ariane and Urianger's stories. To the extent that I really want to have him play a larger role in the Scions going forward, and I'm not bound by the restrictions of writing an MMO, so I don't have to leave him standing alone in the Solar until Shadowbringers and have all the other Scions basically forget about him!

I still need to write the end of Urianger's fic, and both need some interludes written and incorporated into earlier chapters.

So, with eight days left in July, can we make it? I don't know! We'll find out! Even if I don't, I'll have made tremendous progress. I've got a busy few weeks coming up irl, but not in a way that should necessarily preclude writing.

Regardless, we're on the home stretch, and I'm so excited to finally share this when we get there.