I struggled to print my first draft. This printer literally had ONE JOB. And it wouldn't do it.
My ride-or-die Brother HL-2070N is no longer riding. I've used that workhorse successfully for probably 2 decades, at least, and it was the only one that didn't kill itself rather than print my stories.
Unfortunately, it's now obsolete, and my MacBook (which I needed as my powerhouse writing program, Vellum, is only available for Mac) cannot communicate with it. There are no drivers new enough to be compatible with my MacBook. :( Not super sure what happened between last July and now, but ... whatever.
It was with heavy heart that I bought a new printer that was supposed to be amazing. Took forever to get it to be willing to print my story ... and then I ran out of the black ink that came with it before this draft was even fully printed (it had 7 chapters to go).
It's like the story is lengthy, or something. Pfft.
So how long is it?
So as of Feb 24th, the first draft of my second Hazbin Hotel fanfic is done. This was 5 months and 8 days of work.
This is currently the 4th longest story I've written and while my goal with editing is always to shorten the end product, I have a feeling this one is only going to get longer. As it turns out, taking a deep dive into the budding relationship of two profoundly messed-up people (one who struggles to form any kind of real attachment to anyone else, the other who has a lot of demons left to battle) is ... well, it's involved.
Have a sample that illustrates the above observation
I'm also planning on some fun, random video updates for upcoming blog posts.
Until next week, deer friends!
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