Estelle Van de Velde

What am I up to?

This is a Now page. I’ll update this page every few months, so you know what's my current life status. On the side is my archive.

March 12, 2024

I'm more and more interested in the IndieWeb. It's the idea of owning your own content via a personal blog/website, instead of relying on someone else's platform to host your thoughts. I'm planning on adding a blog space here on this website, and I want to be free of writing in any language I'd want to, without thinking about SEO or anything marketing. I've already made some improvements in terms of accessibility here. I've still a lot of things to do to improve the website's performance and responsitivity.

I've been sick with a strong sinusitis recently. Two weeks in the void. I couldn't do anything except sleep and taking painkillers. Oh, and I watched the first four seasons of Grey's Anatomy... Seriously, what's wrong with those characters after four seasons? They're so boring... But then, the series has never been intended for binge watching, hasn't it?

YouTube

Two weeks ago I've released a YouTube video in which I say goodbye to AuthorTube. It's a community of authors that are active on YouTube, that's why it's called AuthorTube. I think it was a good decision to make, so I can focus more on design. But a part of me still thinks I made a mistake. We'll see with time what's the outcome. I've got three video scripts ready, but as I was sick I didn't have the opportunity to record them yet. Hope I'll find the energy somewhere soon.

Author

On the author side, nothing much happened. SEO for Authors was free for a week, because I wanted to boost the reviews. We'll see how many I get from the campaign. I've also resumed querying my middle-grade, but it's hard to find agents I haven't queried yet who are opened for queries. I think I've sent two this month...

Reading

On the reading side, I received "Generating Product Ideas" by Artiom Dashinsky but I'm currently reading "King of Scars" by Leigh Bardugo. Not a ton of energy to resume reading at this point, because the simple fact of having my eyes opened is a bit painful at this very moment, due to the sinusitis. However, I'm happy to come back to the Grishaverse. Also, if you're familiar with the universe, don't you imagine a young Matt Czuchry as Nikolai Lantsov? To me, he's the best actor for the role, haha.

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