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Singular "porvari", plural "porvarit", social class "porvaristo". Finnish is easy!

Varmasti yksi syy tähän on se, että työttömiä kannustetaan yksityisyrittäjiksi, vaikka kaikilla ei siihen ole rahkeita. Sen sijaan, että keksittäisiin kehittää työttömyystukijärjestelmää niin, että freelancereita ja muita lyhyen työrupeaman löytäneitä ei enää rankaistaisi ja oudosti mulkoiltaisi, kun tämä on monilla aloilla jo normaalia. Ja kevytyrittäjyyteenkin Kela suhtautuu mulkoilevin silmin.

There's been times when I thought I had completely planned out the book well before starting NaNo - and then it turned out that, as they say, "the difference between having strategy and tactics is that in the battlefield, strategy is the first thing that gets thrown out as unpractical". Even if I think I have a daily plan for everything, some days I might sit down and write 2000+ words and sometimes do 200 and then go "eeh, my head is empty, what now?". And then I'd feel really bad. The biggest skill at that point is to learn not to feel bad and instead just accept that sometimes you have to improvise.

I've tried a lot of approaches through NaNos. Last year I had a very loosely sketched structure plan which worked okay, while letting me come up with ground-level details on the fly. I've sometimes done a lot more clearer plans too. Sometimes I just go "damn it, absolutely had no time to plan anything this year" and go completely wacky. This year it was something different, had ideas on setting and main character and the structure, and at practical level it worked pretty darn okay for generating more ideas for worldbuilding on the fly.

A round of applause to everyone! I'm happy that this year I've managed to get back my writing spirit, and this NaNo was a great success. Absolutely looking forward to next year being even better!

Friendly remember to do backups and keep your project stuff in sensible locations! I keep a lot of my projects in private Git repositories and I decided to do a list of my past NaNo projecs. I noticed that I didn't have my first NaNo project (2010) anywhere at hand. Fortunately, just yesterday I found the git repository for that from the image of my old server. You know, exactly where I left it.

Thanks for the leaderboard shoutouts for yesterday, btw!

...but those aren't even words. He... he's not even attempting to... produce words...

This is such a stupid timeline.

Random European extrapolations: Uhh... the novel is about sadness and dark themes, but I've felt happy writing it. I've been happy getting some of the sadness and unwritten thoughts down to writing. It's been very therapeutic. I've not felt completely stuck, at no point this year I've not felt like writing this was a chore to be dealt with. And I've not felt alone either, thank you, folks.

Anyway, 50,242 words! I think this is a good place to call it done as far as the project checkpoint goes. As the project is part of an indie game project and I hope to get the design document to some kind of a presentable state by the end of the year, I will definitely be continuing the work on the manuscript very soon.

Is that a Nikkor 13mm f/5.6?

...hmph. Huh.

Looks like it is not.

[Giant big shrug]

NEVER MIND THEN.

/sarcasm

Random Republican, transported through time from 15 years ago: "No no no no no! You see, gerrymandering has everything to do with census data. It's completely impartial! There's no way the process will fail us."

[Gets shown the footage]

Random Time-Displaced Republican: "Excuse me, but... Who the hell is in the power right now?"

[More footage]

RTDR: "Ohhhhh shit I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY TIME!!! ...What do you mean you can only time travel forward in time?"

Me, upon installing Debian KDE distro, and having Dragon Player pop up: I ALREADY INSTALLED VLC, WHAT THE HELL DUDES

Dunno how things are in America, but at lest here in continental Europe, during the pandemic, the app-economy delivery shit was mostly run by befuddled immigrants. Who got absolutely screwed over what comes to fair wages. Not to mention the fact that most of the small and medium sized restaurants that had an existing delivery services basically got bullied to joining the app-economy shit. It's capitalism in it's raw form. Fuck all of these apps.

Enormous, like the burden of leadership on the Queen's shoulders