Okay! Two chapters done for The Perfect Rochester, and I'm cozily back in Nightshade heaven. Give me dry, dark humor, please! I love writing the stuff, and while I know it's not everyone's cuppa, I still enjoy working on it. At any rate, it's great to be getting inside Narcisse's head this time around.
You'll also have to excuse me as I post more and more songs that make it into the book's playlist as they're all very chirpy, which is the mood I'm aiming for in this book from start to finish. Unlike Nightshade's Emporium, which has a bit of an angsty edge since the focus is on Viktor and his role as (peaceful) Death (it does end happily for all involved), The Perfect Rochester is happy all the way through though I'm sure Narcisse won't appreciate having his romantic drama made light of.
At any rate, yeah! We're on it, and I'm looking forward to spending the coming Fall Season finishing and polishing this book for next year's release. Oh, fuck it, lemme post a second video. I'm just in that mood, y'know?
And as a final note, regarding the calendar situation I posted about last time...
We're moving forward with the calendar as is because I finally wrangled Compline into submission, and we now have a solid plot to work with. We'll be back to a classic ghost story there, and it'll be Victorian (as you can only expect from me when I write something historical) -- however, I can still change my mind to something else entirely at least in terms of setting. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, which won't be for a while.
And to double back to the subject of music, I've been culling my downloaded songs in my phone and buying songs that go beyond just stuff that I listened to and enjoyed. Given my family's recent losses of my youngest nephew and then my oldest sister, so many things I used to take for granted now demand special attention. Gone are the songs that I bought because my interest in them were more spontaneous but not really lasting in terms of impact.
All of the songs I'm now keeping are a mix from my childhood (songs I grew up listening to and have a very, very deep connection with via happy memories when my family was still together), my adolescence (my coming-of-age soundtrack, if you will), and a handful of random songs from more recent memory that also managed to sink their nails into my gut and have affected me on a deeper level. I've also added tracks from either TV series (Inspector Morse, UFO, Miss Marple, among others) or films (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Bram Stoker's Dracula, etc.) that have also established a connection with me in some way or other.
I guess I've reached that part of my life where I'm no longer looking too far forward and am relearning how to appreciate and value the present. And I do find that I'm happier that way, and it's a weird state of mind to be in for longer stretches of time. Given how down my mood's been since the start of the pandemic, it's been a real struggle trying to find a handhold again so I could hoist myself back up and on my feet, so feeling upbeat and hopeful again seems so foreign. And I find listening to music that have a much deeper meaning than just momentary enjoyment (cherished memories from my past, both distant and recent) does it for me.
Mind you, reading books is still up there in terms of the value they add to the quality of my life day after day. That'll never change. It's just that those heavy losses my family endured are helping me find my way back though I hate the fact this journey needed a push from the deaths of loved ones. Memories and music -- that's what it's all about.
Anyway, yeah. Onward and upwards, as always. Onward and upwards.
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