
Carbon Neutral Strike Update 32: August 28 to Sept 3, 2026 Ghostwriter No Longer
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[Edit: Post publishing addition of Aug 31, 2026!] In this update I struggle to write but feel good that the work is mine as opposed to my early days in the working world where my work did not belong to me. Quite a few Jamaicans ghostwrite because we need the money and we speak the language, lingua franca.
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Solarpunk Presents — Carbon Neutral Strike Update 32: August 28 to Sept 3, 2026 Ghostwriter No Longer. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I'm a lady, I'm a girl and a girl and I am here to say that we all It's just like Two Semi-layer Something new from the old It's all okay If we go how we go Gentle Kind Million of our minds Action So cool Action So cool Writing Schedules Yeah, these lyrics were improvised with them out in love, but that's how it came out. Sometimes it's gonna be how things come out. This is all done in real time
August 28, 2026 I have to write another few stories to send to potential publishers. Well magazines once I do get a magazine to accept I can try for making a book and getting a publisher and a much needed advance or switch over to script writing Although what publisher I would use I don't know can only think of water bear. I looked it up and bamboo papers are thin One Eleven I figured out a problem in the beginnings of a plot and it's raining Well, it's now one forty four so 427 I'm stupid. The story wrote of 10,000 words is neither sci-fi nor fantasy. It is really staged in the future I have to write again and then move on to the other magazine. I still have time happily Ugh, I'm so annoyed. The thing is you never know what story you have to tell so writing these stories for magazines is frustrating
449 pm Oh, so I'm not a total dance. On the plot devices is sci-fi fantasy influence, Luna Pumpkin from the seller at the work of Lobotometris I kind of forgot while despairing. My mother states it's very subtle and would probably not qualify I'm going to write this next story and see how it goes then I will decide who I submit to but I'm not as total idiot. That's a relief 1029 pm. I'm at 6,000 words. The story is losing a bit of momentum or maybe it's just a necessary discussion of the characters coming to a crossroads of money versus free things I have the crossroads in my own life. Having a monetization strategy and earning is the repeated block to progress That everything comes with a price tag or a bargain of some sorts. I'm dealing with it in my bachelor in my stories and in my life I suppose these stories are assisting me with sorting this out August 29, 2026
12,37 am. Midnight. I'm a bit stuck. My characters have passed the crescendo of the story and now need a resolution They need a house and a job in a world of increasingly free things 12,44 am. Midnight. I thought of the start of something. We'll see 126 am. I found a loose end I want to tie together to round out the story I'm not sure how I'll pull it off but when I do the story will be complete 259 am. I'm finished. It will definitely need editing but it's complete and satisfying at 9248 words and it's only a tiny bit of fluff and powdering to stretch it. It's mostly substance I'll have to see it with fresh eyes tomorrow but this is just the beginning of the writing to be done A pirate's life for me. Don't know why I said that I don't know if pirates being right early types but I'm in Jamaica so yeah
325 am. Found a plot hole. Not giant but not a civil But hey, writing for myself goes so much easier than ghost writing Ghost writing was so crushingly painful I would always put on clients eventually if it wasn't one off I would hate going to the keyboard. This is way less taxing 355 am. Plot hold fixed and I'm up to 9,530 words For 10 am it seems to be okay at 9462 words. Some of the previous word count was cost out. I think I should try to rest and read again tomorrow slash later today 519 pm Send off the story this morning and now onto the next I know the character is setting in problem but I'm tired I know if I nap that's it for the day they'll be no rest and start again that'll just be it for the day
I think this story is gonna be way short of reward limit max So I just need to calculate what I need to earn not what I would like to do and aim for that then go to sleep So I live in the working world on a Saturday I've got a pretty epic storyline though at first glance could have stretched it to 22,000 like the word limit is Just run out of time is all Bt jobs I don't know if it's one of these words just in quotes now Didn't know it figured so much into my vocabulary Wow 10,53 pm I actually did end up resting I guess I was too tired but I'm up now And it's running time if I get the wherewithal 2000 words is sufficient for my needs If I go beyond that it's broader in quotes as we say in Jamaica or extra 1,23 am I don't know why but I'm really unnotivated and without inspiration This story is supposed to be the most exciting one yet with this theme of ultimate evil
But I just can't think of anything 2,12 am I barely have inspiration I'm going back to bed 3,52 pm I don't know I think I've reached my writing limit maybe and I'm not superhuman in this But 4,14 pm I have thought of the twist 9,53 pm I haven't done much writing I've inspired it seems I thought about my bachelor though I want to calculate how many days on average it took me to make a recipe Delicious enough to be in a cookbook Able to December 25 is the time range This will point to the fact that a raw vegan man over eating can be satisfying And produce dividends if that is to be a metric I think I'm going to bed And we'll just see what tomorrow brings August 31,2026,837 pm
After sleeping most of the day, sharing in the rain and enjoying the cooler weather And lack of buzzing machinery noise just soothing rain And eating a bunch of casedies at the pre-concuditional sauce I'm finally mapped out of plot My body kept me sleeping yesterday and today Basically forcing me to have a weekend Ha! And now it seems as a plot Woohoo! I wasn't sure if that would ever happen And it was also shocked at how well it fit And how obvious it felt That I had the power, it was my world I could make anything within reason And internal logic happened But it took that much work 10,33 pm One thing I noticed, I'm getting a sense of humor in my writing again I lost it for a while We're even resorting to puns alone for humor Oh dear Thank goodness that's over Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! September 1,2026,203 pm
Another beautiful downpour Ha! Ha! Ha! 332 pm Finished, I think? Few! Now onto the next task Why are framing then storyploding? 825 pm I'm biting the bullet and downloading the DOW game engine And the documentation I have no idea if it will work The logo still kinda looks like a gullywalk to me with band 2 knots And I still have a couple other reasons why I don't want to use it But theoretically, it's open source, popular and free I don't have a good reason not to try September 3,2026 I stepped out backside today and yesterday is a blur I worked a bit on my thesis yesterday There was a weather situation with a coworker and I got all revolutionary feeling And people were unresponsive I ended the day hating human beings and slept and slept and slept
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