Arboreal woes + writing
Sep. 23rd, 2019 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ratbonesI woke up very early this morning, on my day off, to the sound of a chainsaw running right outside my bedroom, where the tree service was taking down my beloved 60-ft-tall pine. The tree dominated the property and absolutely dwarfed my little house. I've been arguing for months that it didn't need to come down, and I knew I hadn't gotten anywhere but I didn't know it was happening today. Now my yard is wrong, my house is wrong, the lighting is wrong everywhere, I'm absolutely livid about the tree and also about nobody listening to me about the tree, and I'm exhausted, both from being woken up three hours before I intended to wake up and from crying buckets. I recognize that I probably look a little crazy for being so attached to a tree, but that just makes me feel worse. :(
At a certain point, I decided that I needed to feed my brain something enjoyable and also completely absorbing if I wanted to stop bursting into tears at the sight of uninterrupted sunlight coming through the window, so I hoisted myself over into words mode. I think I had hit a bit of a procrastination bump on my zombie AU because my outline was outdated and I knew I had to move some things around to fix the pacing for the next couple chapters (aaargh), so I did some aggressive scribbling of plot notes on several sheets of legal pad spread out over my desk, which was a weird turn because I never write anything by hand, but it seemed to be enough of a disruption to get me out of the rut. Chapter 5 just went up, and I have a big chunk of chapter 6 written, along with a pretty precise road map for where I'm going next. Patting myself on the back here for putting a crappy day to good use and doing something that made me feel a bit better. I could've just moped all day. Old Me would have.
By the way, I don't update on weekends because I work weekends. And a few other days per week, but those are more flexible, while the weekend is not. This is part of why I haven't hopped on the Sunday Six bandwagon. The other part is that the idea of picking out a snippet makes me nervous.
I still don't know exactly what I'm doing on Dreamwidth, obviously, but hey an attempt at a post was made that's good right
At a certain point, I decided that I needed to feed my brain something enjoyable and also completely absorbing if I wanted to stop bursting into tears at the sight of uninterrupted sunlight coming through the window, so I hoisted myself over into words mode. I think I had hit a bit of a procrastination bump on my zombie AU because my outline was outdated and I knew I had to move some things around to fix the pacing for the next couple chapters (aaargh), so I did some aggressive scribbling of plot notes on several sheets of legal pad spread out over my desk, which was a weird turn because I never write anything by hand, but it seemed to be enough of a disruption to get me out of the rut. Chapter 5 just went up, and I have a big chunk of chapter 6 written, along with a pretty precise road map for where I'm going next. Patting myself on the back here for putting a crappy day to good use and doing something that made me feel a bit better. I could've just moped all day. Old Me would have.
By the way, I don't update on weekends because I work weekends. And a few other days per week, but those are more flexible, while the weekend is not. This is part of why I haven't hopped on the Sunday Six bandwagon. The other part is that the idea of picking out a snippet makes me nervous.
I still don't know exactly what I'm doing on Dreamwidth, obviously, but hey an attempt at a post was made that's good right
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Date: 2019-09-24 05:32 pm (UTC)I do find that writing by hand uses some different parts of my brain that writing on a screen. I used to draft most of my stuff out by hand because the flow was better. Now I only write by hand if I'm really stuck or I want to brainstorm something.
You can use DW for whatever you want. Lately I've mostly been using it for talking about what ever media I've been reading and watching. But I also like reading about people's everyday lives, and I have been enjoying lots fanish chatter about Guardian of course.
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Date: 2019-09-24 06:48 pm (UTC)The writing-by-hand thing is interesting. I'm used to typing as much as possible because my abominable handwriting is readable only to me if I'm not being careful, but nobody else is going to read my notes/brainstorming type stuff anyway, so I might add it to my toolkit for future use when I'm stuck.
Oh yeah, your media posts are a good idea and format! I don't take in enough new stuff to do that very often, but I like reading yours. I might try doing semi-regular life and writing updates, if I can think of stuff to say ^^' I love all these Guardian 30-day meme posts too, just haven't had time to do my own.
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Date: 2019-09-26 12:35 am (UTC)I'm glad you are enjoying the media round ups, I started doing them fairly recently and they have been fun. But you can be less through about it than that and just be like I read/watched a thing!
I haven't done the Guardian 30 day meme partly because I actually don't know the answers to a lot of the questions, but I do like reading other peoples answers.