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Dec. 8th, 2005 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI want more sleep.
Several doctor's appointments and random other things later, I've finally reached the point where half the things on my list are just fanfic writing, and most of the rest is editing. Things to be done over a period of several weeks, not one day or another. I think the one exception to that rule is cutting out my orange sherbert-pistachio ice cream green Neo coat.
Yes, I'm making an orange sherbert-pistachio ice cream green Neo coat. Mostly I'm making it that color because I'm practicing, and that fabric was cheap. At a buck a yard, if I make it and it turns out hideous, I've only wasted 10$ so it's not that bad. And while the pattern itself is pretty good, I'm going to make some alterations, so we're going to have to see how that goes. Always tricky with alterations. I may get some more colors of fabric the next time I hit Wal-Mart. I'm going to wind up with a bunch of coats for the bastard children of the Matrix and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Whee!
Thanks to productivity yesterday and some productivity planned for today, I feel better about life. Not about my job, which I still hate and dread, but it's income for now. But yesterday I got an outline done, got a query letter done, did some more editing. Today it'll be more editing, and some writing of yet another draft. And probably some fanficcing. I still owe someone a Law & Order CI fic, and my BDL has yet to be pared down anymore.
My glasses came in yesterday. We'll pick them up today, along with some library books. On profiling!
Continuing with a thought I had a day or so ago, writing would be easier if I was working at it full time. It would also be easier if I knew I was going to succeed at it. I now pause while all my friends hit me over the head with frying pans or other things. Yes, you. It'd be easier if I had an agent and/or an editor waving a deadline at me. We need to have your next book by X date! maybe not easier, but most people seem to be putting out books a lot slower than I could. Every three or four years? Granted, Sophie took me that long, but that's 'cause I was a horrible slacker and didn't touch it for six month stretches. Which means that if I maintain a usual writing schedule I could write three different lines of fiction at once. Go me. Um. But yes, writing would be easier with a guarantee of success. Then again, wouldn't everything?
Yeah, I'm not bad right now, but it's early in the morning and I'm cranky. Although I haven't yet been as bad as those several weeks when I just needed to sick back and fucking relax. No more really bad mood swings, just moments of suck or panic. And even those aren't that bad. Back on an even keel again. 's a nice place to be.
Time to start getting ready for work. Stupid work. Tonight, writing and editing. Maybe a little roleplay. Maybe doing the most recent TM topic for two muses, although I'm almost all caught up. Go me! I'll get out the cutting table and cut out my coat on Sunday. Hee. Coat. The thing that makes the Merovingian twitch.
ETA: Things that make the Jag twitch: Seeing Elmer Traff on Law&Order: CI. Flagg!Elmer!Goren! Oh my!
ETA2: Except, crap. I think I've run out of things I can do at work and I forgot to bring Nightmare Realms in to edit. Fuck.
Several doctor's appointments and random other things later, I've finally reached the point where half the things on my list are just fanfic writing, and most of the rest is editing. Things to be done over a period of several weeks, not one day or another. I think the one exception to that rule is cutting out my orange sherbert-pistachio ice cream green Neo coat.
Yes, I'm making an orange sherbert-pistachio ice cream green Neo coat. Mostly I'm making it that color because I'm practicing, and that fabric was cheap. At a buck a yard, if I make it and it turns out hideous, I've only wasted 10$ so it's not that bad. And while the pattern itself is pretty good, I'm going to make some alterations, so we're going to have to see how that goes. Always tricky with alterations. I may get some more colors of fabric the next time I hit Wal-Mart. I'm going to wind up with a bunch of coats for the bastard children of the Matrix and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Whee!
Thanks to productivity yesterday and some productivity planned for today, I feel better about life. Not about my job, which I still hate and dread, but it's income for now. But yesterday I got an outline done, got a query letter done, did some more editing. Today it'll be more editing, and some writing of yet another draft. And probably some fanficcing. I still owe someone a Law & Order CI fic, and my BDL has yet to be pared down anymore.
My glasses came in yesterday. We'll pick them up today, along with some library books. On profiling!
Continuing with a thought I had a day or so ago, writing would be easier if I was working at it full time. It would also be easier if I knew I was going to succeed at it. I now pause while all my friends hit me over the head with frying pans or other things. Yes, you. It'd be easier if I had an agent and/or an editor waving a deadline at me. We need to have your next book by X date! maybe not easier, but most people seem to be putting out books a lot slower than I could. Every three or four years? Granted, Sophie took me that long, but that's 'cause I was a horrible slacker and didn't touch it for six month stretches. Which means that if I maintain a usual writing schedule I could write three different lines of fiction at once. Go me. Um. But yes, writing would be easier with a guarantee of success. Then again, wouldn't everything?
Yeah, I'm not bad right now, but it's early in the morning and I'm cranky. Although I haven't yet been as bad as those several weeks when I just needed to sick back and fucking relax. No more really bad mood swings, just moments of suck or panic. And even those aren't that bad. Back on an even keel again. 's a nice place to be.
Time to start getting ready for work. Stupid work. Tonight, writing and editing. Maybe a little roleplay. Maybe doing the most recent TM topic for two muses, although I'm almost all caught up. Go me! I'll get out the cutting table and cut out my coat on Sunday. Hee. Coat. The thing that makes the Merovingian twitch.
ETA: Things that make the Jag twitch: Seeing Elmer Traff on Law&Order: CI. Flagg!Elmer!Goren! Oh my!
ETA2: Except, crap. I think I've run out of things I can do at work and I forgot to bring Nightmare Realms in to edit. Fuck.