I'm Curious, People Who Are Reading Dracula Daily, But Haven't Read It Before And Have Managed To Avoid

I'm curious, people who are reading Dracula Daily, but haven't read it before and have managed to avoid spoilers, what are your predictions?

Lucy! 😭

A character in a historical fiction book who is a noble but always speaks in a flawed imitation of a lower class accent because he thinks it's funny.

Everyone in the house is asleep right now. I would be, too, but I'm at work here so... not a good look. It's a rainy day though so it's a nice one for sleeping (she wrote wistfully).

I've been meaning to buy a notebook or two to start writing again. I haven't written anything for myself since 2019. Instead I worked as a ghostwriter, scriptwriter, and outliner professionally from 2019-2021. And became terribly burnt out.

For a few weeks now I've been telling myself it's time to start up writing again. Part of why I quit was that writing professionally totally sapped my energy for my own projects. Now that it's been six months, time to reach for those again.

My tendency is to fret about creating. I'll create a little (drawing as well as writing) but then drop it and begin the Avoidance Phase, during which I fret about getting back to it. As a professional this was dreadful. So what I'd like is to keep that to a minimum. I'm realistic, though. It's going to happen. I just want to not let it become dreadful.

I figure I'll use one notebook just for free writing. I've been hankering to do that to process stuff from work. The other notebook will be story ideas. I'm having lots of snippets. My biggest obstacle atm (and since before 2019 even) has been figuring out WHAT to write. A fun romantic comedy? I enjoyed doing those professionally. Some sort of witchy fantasy? What about the idea I had for an older protagonist sucked into a hero's journey? I read that the HJ is only supposed to be for youths coming of age which of course makes me want to rebel. I don't know, though. I don't know if I have the stamina. I could try short stories but that's never clicked for me. I could write another book in my mystery series, but part of me wants to do a lot differently with that and it just makes more sense to write something new.

Anyway. I may do some brainstorming here sometimes until I get those notebooks.

I've entered a new phase with my client, Hope (not her real name) that I'm trying to understand. The first day I came was rough. I was eager to do the things I'd be placed with her to do: get her up, help her shower, get dressed, have breakfast, and so on. She reacted by resisting strongly, so I quickly learned never to push her and let her choose what we do and when as much as possible. We had a couple of weeks where most of the time, we got along very well. We even had a couple of touching moments of sincere connection. Hope has very limited language but she's not cognitively impaired and can say no and ok. So when I phrase things as yes or no questions I can find out what she wants.

For about a week now, though, she's been very resistant and angry. I don't know why, exactly, of if this represents a true change. Could be we had a kind of honeymoon period and now that's worn off. Or maybe she's now comfortable enough with me to express anger and unhappiness. Or, as it presents, she's angry at me for real and I've done or am doing something that's bothering her.

Meanwhile I'm getting better with all the techniques, so the last option isn't easy to pinpoint, if that's the true cause of her resistance and frustration. Of course I've tried asking her but this sort of guessing game, where I exhaust all the most likely problems and move on to wild speculation, has always annoyed the hell out of her.

Right now she needs a change and the bed is only going to get wetter and less comfortable, but she won't let me do anything. I've offered every option I can think of and she says no to everything.

I hope I figure this out soon.

Good lord, Dracula is WEAPONIZING the inherent human nature to root for the dog in any given situation to go about unnoticed

Devilish