Alone at last

[ratbones]

I have been required to interact with humans, in my own home, for the past twelve days. Everyone who stayed at my house was a perfectly lovely guest; they're all people I genuinely like, and whom I had not seen in a long time, and I had fun spending time with them. But. I am. so tired. I really thought I'd manage to get a little writing done, even if it wasn't the 5k-a-week thing, but I didn't. I filled in some plot holes and plans in my notes, but I only wrote maybe a few hundred words the whole time. I just had no brainspace for it. I've also gotten behind on reading and been a bit of a flake with commenting and replies and stuff, at least compared to normal. I've been operating at about 20% of my standard neural capacity and had limited free time. It's been weird.

On the bright side, I think I seduced one of my guests into watching Guardian. Risks of staying at my house include: getting cat hair on your clothes, being ruined by WeiLan. Have I done a bad thing? I already had them pretty well convinced, and then I showed them some screencaps. Their reaction to Shen Wei's face was "Baby!! He's a GOOD BOY. My son!" and so the doe eyes claimed another victim. (For some reason, they had trouble believing Zhao Yunlan was also the goodest boy. Why would anyone think that face was anything less than perfectly innocent?)

I've now spent about 24 hours not talking to anyone, and during that time I've eaten a large quantity of mac & cheese and gotten some good sleep, so I'm feeling a lot less scattered and more myself. I expect to get back to working on the WIP tonight. Not writing has provoked some weird anxiety, and now I'm a bit daunted by the prospect of jumping in where I left off, but I'll figure it out. Writing scenes out of order wouldn't be anything new. I can go back and tackle the tricky part once I've ground the rust off my gears. Okay, at this point I'm only still typing to reassure myself, so I should probably just bite the bullet and go type some fic instead.

Comments

[forestofglory]

Twelve days is long time to have houseguests, even lovely houseguests. Sounds like you had good time though.

It's okay to take breaks from writing to do other things, but I hope you enjoy it again once you get back in the swing of things.

[umadoshi]

Twelve days of house guests. Dear heaven. O_O

(For some reason, they had trouble believing Zhao Yunlan was also the goodest boy. Why would anyone think that face was anything less than perfectly innocent?)

The best boys, both of them. *weeps*

[naye]

... this is all incredibly validating to read? PHEW the weird disconnect and inability to write while socializing isn't just me!!

That said - wah, 12 days is so long not to have your own space! I'm glad you've had 24 hours now and hope you can anticipate many more nice and low-key hours in which to recuperate.

Also congrats on spreading Guardian and oh how I laugh at Zhao Yunlan pulling off the bad boy act in pictures only. How long will it take your friend to see through him?? :D

[qikiqtarjuaq]

Well done on converting your house guests to Guardian! They are both the goodest boys with terrifying 'rawr' potential when someone hurts the other person.

[extrapenguin]

Congrats on the freedom! Having humans over can be so tiring.

[winter_blossom]

Happy to hear you had a great time! And that you managed to pull yet another hapless soul into Guardian hell...

But, let's face it, even happier to hear that the writing is gonna resume now...XD

[unrelaxing]

I am no stranger to lovely real life things claiming lovely fandom time! I'm glad you had fun, even at the expense of 5k a week (which is so impressive!!) ESPECIALLY GLAD THAT YOU'VE CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM.