And yeah, I'd post word counts but I just realised one of my draft chapters has the word 'capsaicin' accidentally pasted three times at the start because I can absolutely spell that word and didn't need Google, shut up. So let's not pretend word counts matter here.

Best I can do is gesture to the world burning outside, the other bit about writing the books is on you!

...and so now I'm on Bluesky. How is your day going?

Thank you! It's not much, but it's been so long since I've written *properly* that it feels great to ease back into it 😊

Wow ok, but you didn't need to come directly at me like that