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Still in the mire, looking for stars
Oct. 22nd, 2019 10:27 amI have been staring at my house and beginning to recognize insidious depression in all the things I have tagged in my head as "I need to clean this up/deal with this" and, having tagged them thus, continue to ignore them. I need housecleaning accountabilibuddies. Or friends who come over & help me clean so that I actually keep doing it. Ugh.
Meanwhile, my child is about 50% literate, and has progressed to rereading a book to procrastinate on writing about it for her homework. Grauwulf is having another round of stupid work drama, but is so far coping with it. I've been writing a tiny bit at a time, and I think I'm about ready to spin up a Nanowrimo tracker again and see if that helps.
Last weekend was Capclave, which I was at a little less of than I would have liked because I failed to get it on the calendar before signing up to take the Megatherium to a dinosaur-themed camp-in a the Science Center on friday night. But fun was had in both locations, and I got enough sleep camping out under the Albertosaur so as not to collapse on Saturday, though I did end up skipping the mass signing and dessert fun. (Also I gave out some little book embroideries, and got to meet Martha Wells, which was awesome!) I need to get back on panels (turns out if you don't go to the con for a year or two, they take you off the panelist list...) but I feel like getting back up to speed on writing would be an appropriate first step, in terms of doing the important things first & all.
I've been thinking about Fran Wilde, too. (She was not there this weekend due to her daughter's illness, which many people mentioned regretting.) She was one of my Viable Paradise classmates, at a time when her daughter was about the same age mine is now, and hit the ground running when we came out of the workshop. And while I will never be Fran for many reasons, there's a little bit of pressure in my head to return to trying to have a career rather than just mucking about. Which at present means writing more things. And finishing them, to my satisfaction, and taking the next steps.
Unrelatedly, in the spirit of inktober, I've been doing #octobroider on twitter, because I have appallingly many embroidery patterns & need to use more of them.
Meanwhile, my child is about 50% literate, and has progressed to rereading a book to procrastinate on writing about it for her homework. Grauwulf is having another round of stupid work drama, but is so far coping with it. I've been writing a tiny bit at a time, and I think I'm about ready to spin up a Nanowrimo tracker again and see if that helps.
Last weekend was Capclave, which I was at a little less of than I would have liked because I failed to get it on the calendar before signing up to take the Megatherium to a dinosaur-themed camp-in a the Science Center on friday night. But fun was had in both locations, and I got enough sleep camping out under the Albertosaur so as not to collapse on Saturday, though I did end up skipping the mass signing and dessert fun. (Also I gave out some little book embroideries, and got to meet Martha Wells, which was awesome!) I need to get back on panels (turns out if you don't go to the con for a year or two, they take you off the panelist list...) but I feel like getting back up to speed on writing would be an appropriate first step, in terms of doing the important things first & all.
I've been thinking about Fran Wilde, too. (She was not there this weekend due to her daughter's illness, which many people mentioned regretting.) She was one of my Viable Paradise classmates, at a time when her daughter was about the same age mine is now, and hit the ground running when we came out of the workshop. And while I will never be Fran for many reasons, there's a little bit of pressure in my head to return to trying to have a career rather than just mucking about. Which at present means writing more things. And finishing them, to my satisfaction, and taking the next steps.
Unrelatedly, in the spirit of inktober, I've been doing #octobroider on twitter, because I have appallingly many embroidery patterns & need to use more of them.