Challenge September is WIP Month! (Finish WIPs, get colors!)—It’s On!

Also coming in under the wire with my last review: Mourning, by @vader_incarnate

 

Good show, everyone--whether you wrote 5000 words or 200.

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As for myself, I shan't be writing any fanfictional words here at the very last minute. (To be honest, I'm finding it hard just to compose this message.) There was a moment this morning--and it was but a moment--when I thought I might be able to. And then.

My cat Isobel died. Around 1:10 pm, judging by the timestamp on my status message here.

She was still in the woods, but doing slightly better, at the emergency vet--where she had been for the last two nights after going downhill, being diagnosed with pancreatitis, and showing symptoms of liver failure. She was drinking water again and meowing at the staff, who were with her while I was over an hour away. That's life's mean and sick laughter for you: then she suddenly went into cardiac arrest. They tried to revive her through CPR but couldn't. The vet called me at work, and I told her to do what they needed to end her suffering. And then, while I was still on the phone, they let her go. It was that fast.

What I'm trying to say is: I have a fresh jagged-edged cat shape hole in my heart right now.

 

Aww @Pandora

 

I'm so sorry, Pandora

 

Edit: Oh no, I really need to read new posts first. My apologies! I am so sorry to hear about that, @Pandora!

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Breakaway, an Indeera Stokes drabble set for Week 1 of the Drabble Challenge. The thread (new) is Gazing at the Distant Lights

So that is one Small Goal accomplished!

I also got to 1070 words on "Finish chapter on another untitled unposted multichapter story", which is 1070 more words than I would have written otherwise even though I didn't make my goal of finishing the chapter.

 

@Findswoman , I goofed! The 1070 count was on the same story that had 898 and I copypasted the wrong thing.

 

I'm so sorry to hear about your cat, @Pandora

 

Congratulations to everyone who achieved their goals and made progress this month! And as always, a big thank you to @Findswoman for organizing and hosting it all!

@Pandora I'm so sorry to hear about your cat.

 

@Findswoman , I had two more reviews that I posted during September for The Price of Victory and Diary of a Very Sympathetic Padawan. I think they just didn't make it into the index, just noticed that!

 

Thank you for the condolences about my cat, everyone. I haven't been much up to writing anything longer than a sentence this week--and to be honest, I'm still not--but I did appreciate every comment.

It wasn't as though I didn't know this day was coming sooner rather than later: she was special needs (born with a condition without a name, where some of her organs--her liver in particular--were deformed/misshapen). When she was six months old, I took her home at the end of the first emergency vet electric boogaloo, believing, with good reason, that she had only several days left to live. The fact that she lived to be almost four and a half years old was a triumph. But just because I knew all that does not mean I was ready. Because I wasn't ready, and I wasn't ever going to be ready. But that's just how it is.

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Finally, congratulations again to everyone on their goals, both those attempted and achieved.