Have fully and officially finished editing Lună's Vision!

Next week is my (new) monthly self-care week where I won't be doing any writing, but Feb first I'll be handling the formatting and front/back matter.

I am in the home stretch.

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Gonna try to finish editing Luna's Vision before Shabbat starts.
Wish me luck!

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Editing done for the day, only one chapter left on Lună's Vision, which I should be able to finish tomorrow without much trouble.

Third round edits -- mostly just proofreader -- usually goes pretty quickly, so I should have a finished manuscript soon.

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Time for some editing. Aiming for a chapter and a half. Wish me luck!

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It's #WIPWednesday so have a snippet from Luna's Vision:

Natalia smiled at him, eyes gleaming. "Clear sight. You'll also be able to see wounds and weaknesses." She flushed and cleared her throat, "According to Ozana it can have… other uses."

"Other-" Marcus shut his mouth with a snap and turned to study the floor. Oh, he was definitely blushing now.

"Weaknesses, huh?" Victor whistled. "Hey, Marcus, where's Leyla ticklish?"

"Don't you dare!" Leyla squealed when Marcus turned to look at her. "Marcus Lear if you say one damned word I will-"

"Dishes."

Everyone blinked.

"What?"

"You do the dishes for the next week," Marcus said, a wicked grin lighting up his face, "And I'll keep your secret."

"That's blackmail!"

"Nah, giving my teammate some extra motivation."

They were still arguing when the pizza arrived.

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Ugh. One hour to edit one chapter and I am WIPED. Think I did good though. At least, I caught and fixed a bunch of stuff, including two consistency errors.

But damn did that take a lot out of me.

Gonna futz with formatting a bit and take a break.

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Doing edits on Luna's Vision and I completely forgot about this ridiculously cute scene between Benj and Marcus

“Yeah... okay. Message received. Thanks for being nice about it, I guess.” Benj put his dishes in the sink and turned to walk away.

A hand caught his arm and he stopped.

“Benj,” Marcus said softly, “That's not a no.”

Benj slowly turned and found himself staring into Marcus' deep brown eyes. He could drown in those eyes.

“It's a not now, but it's not a no.”

Benj swallowed. “For real?”

Marcus nodded. “For real.”

“You'll, uh, tell me when?”

“Yeah. I'll tell you when.”

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Well that snuck up on me.

683 words and Clan Lună 2 is FINISHED at a total of 31,281 words.

Final line:
Together we turned for the trail and starting jogging. We had work to do.

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#L3 #HazFinished!!!!!

Finished with time to spare. Another day I might push it to 1500, but has cleaning that needs to be done.

Topped 30,000 words, just about done with this story. Woot!

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Thirty minutes later, the first groups of returning fighters entered the parking lot. It was a mixed group, some he recognized (something about the way the moon fell on them) as part of Clan Luna. The others, some stumbling along with their hands behind their backs, some carried over someone's shoulder, weren't. Prisoners, then.

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Managed my 1000 words and dove right into cleaning. We have an apartment inspection coming up Thursday and trying not to stress about it.

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I stayed close to Leyla, who kept us to the edge of the fighting, near the trees. I knew our advanced team had attacked because I saw some of them in the melee. Other than that, I wasn't aware of what was going on except for what was right in front of us.
More than once I heard someone behind me, but Luna whispered in my ear and I knew it was our own people.

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Decided to take a chance, and ended up getting 500 words done.

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I didn't argue. This would be my first time in real combat, and it was going to be rough. Fighting another clan in the middle of the woods at night, when we didn't know the terrain and only had a dim idea of the enemy numbers and capability.
“I will, I said.” And I leaned up to kiss him.
It was a soft kiss at first, but it quickly deepened.

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“It's a first quarter moon, so Lună's going to set in about two hours. If we're going to give the stealth team enough time to get set, the trail team is going to have to double-time almost the whole way.” She chewed her lip. “Other than that the timeline works.”
Marcus looked around the whole group. “Any objections?”
“What's double-time?” Came from the back of the group.
“Light jog.”

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Made 1000 words with minutes to spare. Very pleased with this writing session.

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Goal reached! With minutes to spare.

Clan Luna 2 has officially topped 27000 words.

Here's the latest words:

As they neared, Leyla felt a kind of recognition. She smiled. Lia had told them that she was able to recognize other members of Clan Lună. It seemed like Leyla could too.

“These are our people,“ she said into the comm, making no effort to hide her words from the newcomers.

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I took a breath and let it out slowly. Dalca was rude as fuck and I understood why Emil said my mother didn't like him. But he was also dealing with a disaster and dozens of injured clanmates. “My sot, Leyla, will handle communications for me. Please get her the phone number for ****'s people so we can stay in contact and make plans before their arrival.”

Dalca grunted again. “Alright, that makes sense. I'll call them and then be in touch.”

He hung up without another word.

I sighed and handed the phone to Leyla. “So... here's the plan.”

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“Call this Dalca guy. He's the head of this branch of the clan, he'll know the state of the people there and what they can handle. He'll the best one to get tea from. Then we can make a decision.”
Everyone nodded at that.
Marcus pulled out the phone again.
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1001 words on Clan Luna 2 today.
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time to start writing. Goal for today is 1500 words.
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Yeah, so that writing session went to shit.

Just as I hit my stride, everyone woke up at once and had on-and-off interruptions for 45 minutes.

First time in a while I haven't hit my goal, and I'm kinda pissed about it. I don't ask for much, but I do ask for these two hours each morning to get my writing done in. that shouldn't be too much to ask.

Still, I got 1000 words done, which is pretty good considering.

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Finally, everything was loaded. I climbed into the van and sat next to Karen, hiding my disappointment that once again we would not be getting a night together. Suddenly tired, I snuggling in against her side and yawned. She kissed the side of my head. “It's okay to sleep,” she said, “We have time.”

I didn't actually know how long or how far we'd be driving, but like the other's I'd learned to trust Karen's timelines.

I closed my eyes and held Lună's warmth close to me. The last thing I remember was the sound of the engine turning over as Victor started the van.

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Goal met. Got a thousand words on Clan Luna 2
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"The fact that none of them saw a real problem with how lax their security got makes me think the guardians aren't that good. Better than rent-a-cops, I hope, but not actual professionals,” Marcus said.

Victor grunted.

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Went a few minutes overtime, but met my writing goal for the day, so Score!

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Karen had both Lia and Victor, and all three of them were happy with it. Less than a week ago she'd thought she would always be alone and now she had both of them. It was more than okay. It was perfect.

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Hit 1000 words with seconds left. Time to get ready for my appt.

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Snippet:
I crashed on the sofa after the phone call. No one said anything, respecting my need for quiet after that long conversation. But I could feel them thinking, and was pretty sure we were thinking the same thing: what were the chances Nivele followed them to me?

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