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8 May 2009 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ieuneSo I was a bit 'meh' first thing, and after reading the latest DW_news update (I must learn the html to make that show properly) that had 11 comments, I clicked on each user in turn and did some random journal hopping. Found some interesting stuff, other people who write, fandoms I've never heard of (mostly Japanese-sounding stuff that might be anime/manga. No idea, I'm not into that) and then stumbled on a friending meme. I did a couple of those back on LJ, in the old days. I scroll down page 1 of 4 looking at the answers they've given. Page 2. Page 3. They're all more than half my age.
Suddenly I feel very old and about as interesting as a dusty fossil lurking in a cardboard tray that got pushed right to the back of the shelf and missed off the catalogue list.
It'll pass. It always does.
Outside, the wild winds we should have had in March and that arrived two days ago are still sweeping everything around. I was making a coffee and watched two bonsai go for flying lessons and land upright on the grass--fortunately. Some of the pots are unreplaceable.
Last night, I tapped out another 1670 words on a scene with Marcus and I learned why I'd been unable to progress the scene previously. Because it occurs at Beauxbatons and with no background for the school in my head, I couldn't 'see' where to go and thus stalled. I need to go back and refine the Headmistress a bit more (and having typed that a dialogue chunk just leaped into my head)
Suddenly I feel very old and about as interesting as a dusty fossil lurking in a cardboard tray that got pushed right to the back of the shelf and missed off the catalogue list.
It'll pass. It always does.
Outside, the wild winds we should have had in March and that arrived two days ago are still sweeping everything around. I was making a coffee and watched two bonsai go for flying lessons and land upright on the grass--fortunately. Some of the pots are unreplaceable.
Last night, I tapped out another 1670 words on a scene with Marcus and I learned why I'd been unable to progress the scene previously. Because it occurs at Beauxbatons and with no background for the school in my head, I couldn't 'see' where to go and thus stalled. I need to go back and refine the Headmistress a bit more (and having typed that a dialogue chunk just leaped into my head)
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Date: 8 May 2009 01:35 pm (UTC)Yay that no pots were harmed in the making of Bonzai action scene.
I'm always impressed that you can crank out words like that. *is turtle* And I'm glad Marcus's story is getting put down on paper. I do like Marcus. Makes sense that you needed location; happens to me too.
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Date: 8 May 2009 07:33 pm (UTC)*smiles & shakes head* Some days I can crank out the words, others I lie on my back waving my legs in the air, to borrow from your analogy ;) , and some days I produce rubbish but that's okay too. Even Shakespeare wrote rubbish, we don't get to see it. ;)
Thanks! When I finished writing 'Building Freedom', I realised there was 'stuff' I wanted to explore further, hence the scene I expanded last night with his nephew, Nicky. (You might remember him from the 'strip' /woodturning drabble.)