![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The week after a vacation
Jan. 6th, 2019 10:00 amDoes anyone else feel as if the weekend after coming back to work from a longer vacation just feels SO INCREDIBLY SHORT??
My news is, my roommates are bringing two (TWO!!!) additional cats to our apartment. We will have FOUR CATS for a while. I am deeply concerned about integration, particularly as these other cats are bigger than mine. They're older, but also larger and have spent a lot of time outdoors. Their family isn't great about keeping up with their care, so I'm not entirely sure that they won't be exposing my cats to some outside stuff, and I'd prefer to keep them separated. Unfortunately, this isn't my call because I don't have a way to keep my cats contained (I have a moveable wall which allows them to go in and out by squeezing underneath); this combined with the fact that my roommates own the apt and I ultimately don't get the deciding vote re: containment. Anyway, if anyone has tips about this, by all means drop a line in the comments.
I've written about 2K of that 00Q story which I think works fairly well. It will probably stay pretty short, but it's been a cool exercise -- there's something very freeing about deciding to actually follow your plot bunnies but not require that they be something long or plotty. I suppose it takes away the anxiety of trying to write something long you may worry you don't have time to finish. I think my 2019 writing goal will be for the January to March period, when work is going to be very busy, I'll keep writing shorter stories and just experiment a bit with pairings and form. Then my goal in the summer is going to be to write a real, long plotted story. I'd love to have a writing buddy on this -- I generally don't have betas, but having someone else who also wants to write and be at least somewhat accountable would be great. My RL friends aren't in fandoms, for the most part. Anyone interested?
I've also made the completely bizarre discovery that writing in the notes on my phone somehow improves my ability to write considerably? Does anyone else do this? I have no idea why this is the case, but when I write on my computer I think perhaps I type faster than I think. Or possibly, because I'm so used to typing text messages, there's a smoother thought-to-typing pattern that I'm tapping into. It's incredibly strange. I almost wish I'd bought the larger phone so I could have just a little bit bigger of a screen and still tap into it. It's not that the writing is better in quality so much as it just comes easier.
Finally, books I am currently reading:
Changing Places by David Lodge -- I'm about 70 pages into this one, and it's short, but I'm not loving it. It's meant to be one of those seminal campus novels but eh.
The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker -- There's not a ton of actual literature about asexuality, but this one seems to be highly thought of in ace circles. It's nothing I didn't already know at this point, but it's still nice to see it all written down.
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn -- My mother gave me this one and I've heard good things from friends, so I'm about to start it. Will keep you updated!
My news is, my roommates are bringing two (TWO!!!) additional cats to our apartment. We will have FOUR CATS for a while. I am deeply concerned about integration, particularly as these other cats are bigger than mine. They're older, but also larger and have spent a lot of time outdoors. Their family isn't great about keeping up with their care, so I'm not entirely sure that they won't be exposing my cats to some outside stuff, and I'd prefer to keep them separated. Unfortunately, this isn't my call because I don't have a way to keep my cats contained (I have a moveable wall which allows them to go in and out by squeezing underneath); this combined with the fact that my roommates own the apt and I ultimately don't get the deciding vote re: containment. Anyway, if anyone has tips about this, by all means drop a line in the comments.
I've written about 2K of that 00Q story which I think works fairly well. It will probably stay pretty short, but it's been a cool exercise -- there's something very freeing about deciding to actually follow your plot bunnies but not require that they be something long or plotty. I suppose it takes away the anxiety of trying to write something long you may worry you don't have time to finish. I think my 2019 writing goal will be for the January to March period, when work is going to be very busy, I'll keep writing shorter stories and just experiment a bit with pairings and form. Then my goal in the summer is going to be to write a real, long plotted story. I'd love to have a writing buddy on this -- I generally don't have betas, but having someone else who also wants to write and be at least somewhat accountable would be great. My RL friends aren't in fandoms, for the most part. Anyone interested?
I've also made the completely bizarre discovery that writing in the notes on my phone somehow improves my ability to write considerably? Does anyone else do this? I have no idea why this is the case, but when I write on my computer I think perhaps I type faster than I think. Or possibly, because I'm so used to typing text messages, there's a smoother thought-to-typing pattern that I'm tapping into. It's incredibly strange. I almost wish I'd bought the larger phone so I could have just a little bit bigger of a screen and still tap into it. It's not that the writing is better in quality so much as it just comes easier.
Finally, books I am currently reading:
Changing Places by David Lodge -- I'm about 70 pages into this one, and it's short, but I'm not loving it. It's meant to be one of those seminal campus novels but eh.
The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker -- There's not a ton of actual literature about asexuality, but this one seems to be highly thought of in ace circles. It's nothing I didn't already know at this point, but it's still nice to see it all written down.
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn -- My mother gave me this one and I've heard good things from friends, so I'm about to start it. Will keep you updated!
