I've been trying to stick to a good writing schedule. About 2-4k a day, if I can swing it. My goal was to hit 75k words on my current project by Sunday and it's looking like it should be pretty attainable. Might even be able to squeeze in a little extra if I'm lucky. The guy I'm working on it with will take his 'shift' afterwards and then...well, I think we should have our first draft of about ~90k words done in a week or two. I'm really excited; I think we might have something special. And hey, even if it doesn't go anywhere, it was great practice for next time and the next one. Been studying Mandarin every day now for about a month and I'm already pretty impressed with how far I've come. It's a strange, weirdly logical language but I'm enjoying it so far. Hopefully by the time I start my Masters I'll have a decent head-start.
On the luxury side of things, I've been watching a shit-ton of cartoons with my sister. Just wrapped up Steven Universe and almost down with season 1 of Gravity Falls. Not sure why, but I honestly love animated shows. I think their potential for story-telling on a 'mature' scale is actually pretty high, and I want to see more shows like Steven Universe and etc that do a good job of remaining kid-friendly while still venturing into interesting story-lines and world-building.
Great progress! Mandarin is no joke. I've been stalled on learning Macedonian just because I need to sit down and learn Cyrillic, I can't imagine figuring out Chinese. Gravity Falls is the show we watched the first time my friends and I got high together. Love that show! https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9woqfRjD01r8eipqo1_500.gif
Haha I can't imagine what watching the show is like while high. You should definitely check out Steven Universe as well! Pretty phenomenal. Yeah I think the most daunting thing about Mandarin is the lack of a proper script. I was learning Japanese for three years for before this so I know some of the characters but often times they mean completely different things. I basically have to sit down for 2 hours everyday to get anywhere and to make sure I remember what I've learned. I suppose that's probably the only way to learn any language, though. Keep going with Macedonian! The Cyrillic script has always seemed incredibly beautiful to me.
The current series of Adventure Time comics is being written by one of my favourite web-comic people Christ Hastings who does Dr McNinja