Never Boast
Mar. 8th, 2006 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustWhat I find so horridly amusing about where I am right now is that it's not like I'm not currently writing ecause I can't think of anything to write about--indeed, every time I turn around, my list mestastasizes a little further. As of yesterday, "History's Crust" has officially turned into a ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greygirlbeast-sized foldy-back-and-forth-through-time novella (depending on how much of it I decide I actually want to put "on-screen" at any given time), and I now have plans to write a sequel to it called "Under Hill", which will be told from Glauce Lady Druir's POV and bring the internal war between both sides of that family I uncovered in "Dead Voices on Air" to a sort of end. The good part is that I have a far better understanding of many characters, including Euwphaim Glouwer, who may turn out to be one of the most straight-ahead evil people I've ever written...hateful, anyhow. But even she has her reasons.
Still, though, I'm obviously caught between the double interfering impulses of needing to finish and send off the POV piece vs. needing to give as much in-class feedback as humanly possibly. And then there's the problem of what to concentrate on next: Do I just keep adding notes to various files, or do I start cranking out the wordage? Where? "Niemand" is at least pretty much planned out, and there is somewhere immediately to go--I really don't want to lose momentum, to lose focus. But maybe I need a palate-cleanser, and one of those small(ish) pieces would be perfect for that...something so tiny the characters don't even have to have names, necessarily (as in "The Diarist")...
One way or the other, I'm also just tired as hell, physically. It seems like a lot of my evenings end at 10:30 or 11:00 PM, with me taking Robaxicet and then falling over. The period hasn't helped; Cal's new cold hasn't helped. Etc.
Okay, fine: Downtime. Do what you can do, go where things point you. Stop rewatching that full X-Men 3: The Last Stand trailer from 24 over and over again, and definitely stop thinking about Mystique and Magneto talking about mortality. Keep exercising. Try to be happy. Steve's event is over as of today, and these are all good goals.
greygirlbeast-sized foldy-back-and-forth-through-time novella (depending on how much of it I decide I actually want to put "on-screen" at any given time), and I now have plans to write a sequel to it called "Under Hill", which will be told from Glauce Lady Druir's POV and bring the internal war between both sides of that family I uncovered in "Dead Voices on Air" to a sort of end. The good part is that I have a far better understanding of many characters, including Euwphaim Glouwer, who may turn out to be one of the most straight-ahead evil people I've ever written...hateful, anyhow. But even she has her reasons.Still, though, I'm obviously caught between the double interfering impulses of needing to finish and send off the POV piece vs. needing to give as much in-class feedback as humanly possibly. And then there's the problem of what to concentrate on next: Do I just keep adding notes to various files, or do I start cranking out the wordage? Where? "Niemand" is at least pretty much planned out, and there is somewhere immediately to go--I really don't want to lose momentum, to lose focus. But maybe I need a palate-cleanser, and one of those small(ish) pieces would be perfect for that...something so tiny the characters don't even have to have names, necessarily (as in "The Diarist")...
One way or the other, I'm also just tired as hell, physically. It seems like a lot of my evenings end at 10:30 or 11:00 PM, with me taking Robaxicet and then falling over. The period hasn't helped; Cal's new cold hasn't helped. Etc.
Okay, fine: Downtime. Do what you can do, go where things point you. Stop rewatching that full X-Men 3: The Last Stand trailer from 24 over and over again, and definitely stop thinking about Mystique and Magneto talking about mortality. Keep exercising. Try to be happy. Steve's event is over as of today, and these are all good goals.
