Honest I'm alive
Oct. 25th, 2015 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have 7 days left, including today, until NaNoWriMo kicks off, and the idea of writing makes me feel tired and headachey. I am going to do it, though, just to prove that you can write even when you really, really don't want to.
No, I don't know why. Even blogging is making me feel tired, which is a massive change from what I used to be. Even now I'm here, I can't imagine not loving writing, so there's definitely something weird going on. I still have stories, they're just played out in RP, and it's not like I'm totally down because everything is awesome. It's just writing. Weird.
So I'm going to reread Just A Mistake and see if I can work out where I was going with it, then go there.
No, I don't know why. Even blogging is making me feel tired, which is a massive change from what I used to be. Even now I'm here, I can't imagine not loving writing, so there's definitely something weird going on. I still have stories, they're just played out in RP, and it's not like I'm totally down because everything is awesome. It's just writing. Weird.
So I'm going to reread Just A Mistake and see if I can work out where I was going with it, then go there.
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Date: 2015-10-25 06:31 pm (UTC)Did you go places and have adventures?
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Date: 2015-10-26 07:57 pm (UTC)And yes, I had lots of adventures. I couldn't believe I hadn't posted since before I went off to Asia. Definite update post requirements, because so much has happened. There's photos and everything.
How are you? It's been a really, really long time and I totally dropped out of the loop and failed at keeping in touch :(
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Date: 2015-10-26 10:41 pm (UTC)Me? Much the same. A few less cats. A few more fish. (Okay, a lot more fish). A modest iguana encounter in Aruba. Some stories written.
It's pretty quiet around livejournal these days, so having you return to the fold would be very welcome!
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Date: 2015-10-27 07:51 pm (UTC)I want to hear about the iguana in Aruba, that sounds epic. And I do have a lot of stories to catch up on
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Date: 2015-10-27 08:01 pm (UTC)http://beesandbrews.livejournal.com/359966.html
Here is the Aruba entries. It wasn't an EPIC trip. I went to an all inclusive resort for five days and mostly sat on a sun lounger, drank blender drinks and wrote fanfic. (Yeah, I know. But I'd started this New Team Torchwood/Sherlock story and I hate stopping when I'm in the middle of things.) The iguanas were everywhere, so I made friends with several of them.
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Date: 2015-10-25 07:12 pm (UTC)I'm sure youi can do it.
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Date: 2015-10-27 10:24 pm (UTC)It's Contest Week on one of my favourite prompt sites, so for a week, all I do is write. Anything but the most important chores gets left. Next week will be spent catching up with everything I ignored this week. Good thing it's only one week every three months!
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Date: 2015-10-26 12:14 pm (UTC)Hello stranger. :) Sometimes your creativity gets used up in other things. Don't worry, it hasn't disappeared, but it may not want to come out of hiding. Don't get too cross with yourself if Nano doesn't do what you hope.
But then again it might. Good luck.
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Date: 2015-10-26 08:01 pm (UTC)My creativity is involved in folding origami pumpkins at the moment. Don't ask, my life is weird. At least it's a lot of fun weird?
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Date: 2015-10-27 08:06 am (UTC)I'm good. The original book is nearly a book (I think). I won a mentorship with the NZ Society of Authors this year. It's now draft umpty twelve, it's down to a respectable 90k words and it's back to my mentor to see what she thinks this time around. That's real progress I tell you.
Enjoy your pumpkings
(I'm just going to leave that typo there. It's kinda cute.)
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Date: 2015-10-27 07:48 pm (UTC)