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I am about to be introspective. As such, I am going to put my introspections under a fake cut: Not because they are particularly personal, but because I don't want to clog up people's friends pages with a lot of my nonsense.

If you're having one of those days, where everything is rather shitty and you're questioning your decision-making abilities, I strongly suggest you read this article. My best friend for at least the last decade posted it to Facebook, and while there's a whole lot of stuff about god and religion and stuff that I generally don't hold with *personally*, the points it makes are still valid and interesting and, I hope, useful.

( Thar be thoughts ahead. )

What are the things that are (mostly) worth it? My family. My awesome friends. Working at a job I loathe until I find a job I'm excited to do. Figuring out how to help people, if I can. Staying up till 2 a.m. to write, if that's when the mood strikes me and that's when I have time.

Yep. Priorities: I have them.

It's been almost a year since my old laptop died and I both a) had to go buy a new one and b) got behind reading stuff at Milady/Milord and have never caught up.

In fact, it's been months since I looked at practically anything posted there. On the one hand, it's freed me up to read awesome books (which, hey, I finally figured out what to do with my Tumblr! I just haven't done it yet.) and to find new ships (Ben & Leslie! Ron & Ann! Tom & Ann! Ben/Leslie/Ann! Dan & Blair! Wendy & the Middle Man! Guy & Marian!). On the other hand, I feel kind of shitty because I know people have been creating some awesome things and I feel really disconnected from my fellow Jeff/Annie shippers.

I have at least six Jeff/Annie stories planned (as in they're in my head, I just need the time to write them), not counting a couple things I have in progress, but I feel kind of like I'm off in my own little writing world, which sucks because I like having my thumb on the shippers' collective pulse when I write.

Finally, it's chilly but absolutely gorgeous outside and I have about another 20 minutes before I can leave work.

I know, I know: World's smallest record player playing the world's saddest song...

It's completely stupid, but there are moments I miss being unemployed. It's not simply because The Employer is a lunatic.

I miss updating my fics daily. I miss feeling like I was making progress on something I care about. And I miss having the energy to respond to everyone who comments on my fics.

I also kind of miss not looking like I've been smacked in the face. Does anyone have suggestions for under-eye shadows?

Two things today to discuss:

I have a few friends who've done this on Facebook, but I thought i would try it here: The handmade meme is when an individual offers to make & give/send something handmade to the first people who respond to a post. So...

I will make something and send it to the first five (5) people who respond to this post.

Assuming anyone actually wants to try this. To be clear, I'm a half-decent photographer, I make beaded jewelry and I knit. I also make good mix CDs. (The only complaint I've ever had was that I put the same song on more than one CD I made for the same person, and that stopped as soon as I started keeping better track of what I was choosing for each CD.)

The other thing is that I'm worried about posting a new fic to milady/milord because, as much as I've written shorter fics, I feel like I wrote 'There's Only One Girl In the World For You' and people would be happy if all I ever did was write sequels to that. But I have other ideas. And I suppose I'm freaked out that the Epic is the first thing I've ever written that I had a good response to, and I neither want to be pigeoh holed nor do I want to be a one-hit wonder. Mostly because I hope that at some point, I will be able to write fiction professionally.

Also, I've made some progress on my reading list.
( Book-ity book book )

Current Mood: cold

I think my Epic Community fic has another three, maybe, four chapters, plus the epilogue. I want to finish it by Christmas.

The epilogue won't be a problem: I've had the idea since August, the format since September and the major story points I want to address since the middle of October.

The problem is that to meet my deadline, I basically need to go back to writing a chapter a night, which is good because I sleep better when I've written a chapter and posted it, but it's bad because I usually stay up will 3 a.m. And I have to be up by 7:15, 7:30 at the latest to be at work at something approaching the time I'm supposed to be there.

So, i either need to suck it up, or find a TARDIS.

P.S. I also want to write a fic idea that's been growing for the last two months and post it Christmas Day, but then I'll probably spend most of Christmas writing it. I'm not 100 percent sure, but I'm fairly certain that officially makes me a sad sack with no life and negative social skills.

I found this fun little article on io9 about why science fiction goes to dream sequences so often. Among the many thought provoking reasons was this little gem:

10) Extra sexiness without consequences

And most importantly, we want to see Mulder shirtless and handcuffed. We want to see Sookie and Eric doing the wild thing. We crave random titillation, and we don't care if it makes sense in the context of the story. In fact, the less sense it makes, or the more it hints at undercurrents of sexitude under the surface, the more exciting it is. So it's almost mandatory for dream sequences to include "I can't believe they went there" friskiness.

The strange thing is: It's not just scifi that does this. I've seen it in other more literal forms of fiction, often for the same reasons.

That's all.

Current Mood: sleepy

So, I'm nearly done with chapter 48 of this Community fanfic I've been writing. Since June 12, apparently. (I just checked because I couldn't remember.)

I desperately want to finish it this coming weekend, because I want to move onto something else.

But also because I feel that it has become irrelevant because it is so entirely AU at this point it's not even remotely amusing.

It's also partly me being worried about being irrelevant, which comes from two years of having it drummed into me in my journalism classes that timeliness is key.

Part of it is also me being (perhaps wrongly & insecurely) concerned that there's only a small group of people still reading this insane piece of melodramatic shit.

I am, however, determined to finish this damn thing because I need to prove to myself that I can finish this. I practically never start anything this big (if I'm not being paid for it), and I've certainly never finished any of the stalled novels I have in notebooks and floppy disks.

I almost regret falling in love with this show & becoming active in the fandom.

/rant

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