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Jan. 23rd, 2019 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI am not doing anything productive today at work because about an hour into the day the intranet and my computer decided they weren't speaking to each other and therefore I can't do about half my crap at my computer, and therefore a lot of things are going to take for-fucking-ever. And I completely lost all enthusiasm for doing anything not immediately necessary, which thankfully isn't much but ugh.
Instead I am having a fit of Darwin and reading The Secret Country by Pamela Dean, which started more slowly for me than I expected but now I'm halfway through and I don't want to leave and do capoeira, I just want to sit and finish the trilogy. And sulk. But also read.
Basically if you grew up on Narnia and the Psammead and adventures of that ilk, you will find this very familiar and perhaps comforting. Or that's how I see it.
It doesn't help that I'm PMSing all over the place. The boy had some errands to run and some car repairs to get done today, so I didn't see him before I left for work. Come noon I was absolutely emotionally convinced he was in a terrible car wreck (and absolutely mentally convinced that was the PMS talking and either he'd gone to bed or he was out fixing the light in the car) and lo, he did call after I left a message and he'd finished and we exchanged informations and settled on plans for the evening and see, PMS anxiety brain? The closer it gets to time to bleed, I swear, the worse my emotions get. Which hopefully means bleeding will start soonest and get itself over with.
Sigh. I wanted to get some writing done today. I had it in mind before the intranet crashed that I would get a bunch of work things done and then do writing and filing all afternoon. And no. I ran out of things to do and then I spent an hour, hour and a half falling asleep at my desk. This is deeply unpleasant. I'm hoping capoeira can help reset my brain so I can get some any work done at all.
Instead I am having a fit of Darwin and reading The Secret Country by Pamela Dean, which started more slowly for me than I expected but now I'm halfway through and I don't want to leave and do capoeira, I just want to sit and finish the trilogy. And sulk. But also read.
Basically if you grew up on Narnia and the Psammead and adventures of that ilk, you will find this very familiar and perhaps comforting. Or that's how I see it.
It doesn't help that I'm PMSing all over the place. The boy had some errands to run and some car repairs to get done today, so I didn't see him before I left for work. Come noon I was absolutely emotionally convinced he was in a terrible car wreck (and absolutely mentally convinced that was the PMS talking and either he'd gone to bed or he was out fixing the light in the car) and lo, he did call after I left a message and he'd finished and we exchanged informations and settled on plans for the evening and see, PMS anxiety brain? The closer it gets to time to bleed, I swear, the worse my emotions get. Which hopefully means bleeding will start soonest and get itself over with.
Sigh. I wanted to get some writing done today. I had it in mind before the intranet crashed that I would get a bunch of work things done and then do writing and filing all afternoon. And no. I ran out of things to do and then I spent an hour, hour and a half falling asleep at my desk. This is deeply unpleasant. I'm hoping capoeira can help reset my brain so I can get some any work done at all.
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Date: 2019-01-24 05:59 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2019-01-24 01:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-24 06:09 pm (UTC)The weirdness of the first two volumes and their lack of disclosure all stemmed from standard publishing norms or superstitions -- the first two couldn't be published as one because it would be long enough to violate the price point at which they then thought books didn't sell as well; they didn't want to label it as first in a series because people often put off buying the first book until all are available; and I was a new author so publishing more than one book of mine in a year wasn't on either. The combination was really unfortunate for readers and not so great for me either.
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Date: 2019-01-25 04:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-25 04:58 am (UTC)It's all much better since Firebird re-released the whole set. Ace/Berkley fired my editor and then sat on the third book until the time when they would have had to give me the rights back was almost there, and then suddenly published it. I was at fault to some degree because I turned it in late, but not that late. This was hard on readers too.
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