So I was really planning to at least finish around ten thousand words for Dark Wave last week but that didn't happen. I wasn't exactly procrastinating but some things caused me to deviate from my original plan.
As you can see, there are some changes on the blog. One might say that those are very little changes to take up a lot of time but I'm such an amateur when it comes to coding so a huge portion of my "supposed-to-be-writing-hours" was spent googling the CSS codes for this and that, not to mention that my OCness got the better of me when it came to finding the perfect word meter (just look at the left footer). So after finding the one that will suit my site best, I have to tweak it again to make sure that it would complement Stardust Lores' theme.
Once satisfied with the appearance of my word meters, another stuff caught my attention; my bookshelves in Goodreads. For information, I have two Goodreads accounts: a personal account and the Vita Julii one (the reason behind this is another story to tell for another post). As I've said in my bio, reading is one of my hobbies so I use Goodreads a lot and since I'm one of the most disorganized person on the planet, you can just imagine the state of my bookshelves. They're just so messy! So to make the long story short, I organized all my books according to their genres and specified my all-time-favorites.
With the two Goodreads accounts done, I thought that I was going to finally start updating Dark Wave but unfortunately, I saw a beautiful mermaid photomanipulation while browsing the internet and I don't know what happened but the picture just urged me to create a blog mock up design. And thus, my whole Sunday was spent scouring Deviantart and various blog resources sites to look for images, patterns, and other pieces for my mock up. From an aspiring writer's perspective, my Sunday was definitely a waste. However, the blogger and aspiring designer in me assured that it wasn't since I'm going to use the said design for my future self-hosted blog/s.
So that's how I spent my weekend, how about you? I promise I'm going to focus my full attention to Dark Wave until I hit the 24k words!
Recommended reading: The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler
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