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On writing and the New Years
Am back in Melbourne. My Briar Rose has gone to work, and I have most of the morning and a little of the afternoon off. A bare, but welcome reward in exchange for a Saturday shift. Spending time, cuddling the girls, feeding girls, reading Jennifer Potter's The Rose: A True History checking up on f'list and the net.
I hope the new years is treating you well. <3 I...am sorry I was so incognito last year, didn't talk to you guys that much, and reciprocate the kind of support you guys gave me when I was doing NaNo and when The Disappearance was being an evil brainchild. And as much as I know it was a combination of things: Sofie's illness and the constant fluctuation between OMG SHE'S GOING TO DIE and oh she's okay. okay.; coping with my social anxiety and stress People have been kind and awesome about it, so I am grateful of that, if cranky at myself for not being better.
So for the New Years, I am writing a list, a very Important Obligatory List for the New Year.
1) Finish editing the Damn Book already
1a) understand when you need a break from the damn book, and for the love of God, take it.
2) Spend more time with friends, online and offline. And on that note, Skype your family more often.
3)Be more disciplined and less scattered. It's no good getting up at 5:00 only to give the girls their medicine, give them conciliatory treats and then realize it's 5:30 and you only have 30 minutes to go. And no reading F.A. McNeil's The Heart's Landscape (alas, no longer online) just because you feel stuck and hoping someone else's gorgeous work will make you feel less so.
3a) Work out what you need to do in the space of the one hour you've given yourself. Or you will spend much of that one hour flailing.
4) Eat less take out. No seriously Elaine. Less take out for you.
4a) It doesn't matter how awesome roasted chicken is. No. Just no.
5) Read more Pinoy speculative fiction and history. If at all humanly possible, find ones written in Tagalog. ;__;
5a) on that note, read more sf online fiction, period.
*falls over* this is all manageable, yes?
I hope the new years is treating you well. <3 I...am sorry I was so incognito last year, didn't talk to you guys that much, and reciprocate the kind of support you guys gave me when I was doing NaNo and when The Disappearance was being an evil brainchild. And as much as I know it was a combination of things: Sofie's illness and the constant fluctuation between OMG SHE'S GOING TO DIE and oh she's okay. okay.; coping with my social anxiety and stress People have been kind and awesome about it, so I am grateful of that, if cranky at myself for not being better.
So for the New Years, I am writing a list, a very Important Obligatory List for the New Year.
1) Finish editing the Damn Book already
1a) understand when you need a break from the damn book, and for the love of God, take it.
2) Spend more time with friends, online and offline. And on that note, Skype your family more often.
3)Be more disciplined and less scattered. It's no good getting up at 5:00 only to give the girls their medicine, give them conciliatory treats and then realize it's 5:30 and you only have 30 minutes to go. And no reading F.A. McNeil's The Heart's Landscape (alas, no longer online) just because you feel stuck and hoping someone else's gorgeous work will make you feel less so.
3a) Work out what you need to do in the space of the one hour you've given yourself. Or you will spend much of that one hour flailing.
4) Eat less take out. No seriously Elaine. Less take out for you.
4a) It doesn't matter how awesome roasted chicken is. No. Just no.
5) Read more Pinoy speculative fiction and history. If at all humanly possible, find ones written in Tagalog. ;__;
5a) on that note, read more sf online fiction, period.
*falls over* this is all manageable, yes?