Urrrrgh and other news + please share!

Please share this =/Hello again! o/
I was travelling with my girlfriend in Europe in september and something sad happened: in Brussels she lost her teddybear, "mãe de pano" ("cloth mother", but is a boy teddy bear ). We are desperately looking for him, if you have facebook, please share this link - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=849941925075388&set=a.221149317954655.50796.100001787658468&type=1 - if you have a idea how to help us, or ways to help us, please!!
In instagram: https://instagram.com/p/7qvWByik4n/?taken-by=mushisan
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And I'm still needing Klaras:

When I was out, received cute arts from :iconZerozero204: < My friend's girlfriend lost her teddybear in Brussels. Let us use the power of the internet to reunite them~

EDIT: I am kind of awol at the moment because I'm suffering from headaches, and I can't spend much time on my laptop without making them worse.
Just letting you know what's going on.  I have pretty much given up on any new merch for MCM/Leicester Comic Con as a result. I did have an idea.. but I'll have to wait and see when these headaches go away.  Don't worry, this just happens from time to time. I'll be better in a bit.

So I was all pleased with myself about the keyrings I managed to make the other day.. only some of them have gone all weird, it's like the keyrings are all scratched up but they're not... and... I can't sell people anything so low quality. 

I think that might be it. I might be done. I don't know if I can face putting effort into making new merchandise if it's going to turn out like that.  I'm going to still try and have a few new prints and I am going to attempt a new comic, but I am just not going to stress and hurt myself if it's all going to be for nothing.  I have some different keyrings to try out, so maybe I'll try them instead... but I think I need to talk to other stallholders and ask them where they get theirs and how they do it or I'll just waste time, materials and money. 

I'm really sorry for taking ages to do anything. I just have so much to do and there is no-one else to do it. On top of that I'm studying and job hunting and doing various author stuff... and of course I need time to myself. So please forgive me.

I'm still writing book 4 really slowly but I am wondering if it might not be a better idea to do what I didn't want to do and ditch it to do another edit on Joshua's book. Because of various things, I ended up neglecting book 4 and now I am not steaming ahead like I was... but a book redraft on top of everything else? Not sure I can.  On the plus side, Joshua's book isn't very long... if I pushed myself I could do it in two or three days. But. Urgh. I suppose if I do it then I won't feel like I have a redraft looming over me too, and that is easier to do than finish a first draft...

I do WANT new merch but at the moment, besides the stickers I am thinking it might be better for my sanity if I just drop the idea and make new things when I don't even have any conventions planned. But then.. I don't work on new things when I don't have conventions because I have other stuff to do then. 

..I hate this.

Anyway.  I guess that actually, if I think about it, books ARE new things for conventions.

Urrrrrrgh.  I'm in that state where you have so much to do you don't know where to start so instead of just picking something and doing it you sit around and agonise over how much you have to do and where you should start.

..I'm going to just pick something and do it.  Like, right now. 

This is my day off, would you believe.

Sorry for whining, just want you all to know what is with the no art etc.

Thanks for reading,

Alicia

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To-do list:

-Finish book 4 - up to chapter 5
-Redraft Tyrian's book

-finish unit 1 of grammar course
-finish unit 1 of proofreader course - Unit 1 finished

-finish twitter comp chibis
-all no humans here prizes
- stickers for Kirby

-Read and review The Medium


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Progress:

Victor's Book:

Status:  Writing first draft
Version: 1

Word count: 34650

Tyrian's book:

Status:  Awaiting redraft.
Version 8.


Joshua's book:

Status: Awaiting redraft.
Version 3. 




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Booked conventions-

Leicester Comic Con - 11th October

London MCM Comic Con - 23rd - 25th October

DokiDoki Festival - 7th November

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