And 34 percent!

I did 4% and almost 2K in a single sitting! When I say I've been writing every day, I mean I've been writing a sentence to a page every day. This is a really good session, and I'm only stopping because I'm approaching the kind of tired where basic vocabulary eludes you.
In other news, I've finally re-reached the point where I can play guitar for longer than 15 minutes without giving up out of finger pain + frustration. I don't know how beginners are expected to play for half an hour at a time, three times a week. Steel strings bruise your fingers but good before the calluses come in. I started reading Passing Lines, and now I have a decent idea of Puerto Rican gay culture and where trans culture is likely to fit into that. Boring interny stuff now pretty much done. Of the two issues I had of Poets & Writers to catch up on, I finished the earlier one and I read through the classifieds of the second one. Seriously, they have so many contests, conferences, publishing companies etc. in the back of that magazine. It's awesome. I started looking into some of them.
I wish I had a decent sense of how long this novel is going to be. There's a contest for a novel, which doesn't have to be finished, just has to have a synopsis written and be projected to be over 65K, whose deadline is at the end of the month. How should I know if this is going to be over 65K until I'm done with it? How does one estimate such things?

30 percent!

I have reached 30% of said novel. I am very excited. This calls for celebration.

It's probably gonna be longer than 50K just because I've only just gotten to the scenes where Nadie and Leandra get to know each other. I like them. Nadie is gas and Leandra is a sparker, and together--fire.
Other news. I am teaching myself to play guitar with correct fretting technique this time, and now feel as though I don't know how to play at all. Is very frustrating. Most of my muscle memory--useless.
I have basically discovered that if you want my news in mostly sensible, continuity-heavy, long posts that read like chapters of a story in that they're mostly related to what happened before, you should stay here. If you like them in shorter chunks, don't mind me commenting on feminism, random other story ideas, trans* and NB resources, and a hell of a lot on asexuality; enjoy watching me get excited about random things, and like a consistent update schedule, you should follow me on tumblr.
My boring interny stuff is closer to being done but is still not done, same with the shopping stuff and reading through Poets & Writers. Dang, but that's a long magazine.
Also! I don't usually put fanfiction here, but! Aro/ace Natasha Romanov! Heterosexual biromantic Sam Wilson! The soulmate trope suddenly making sense!