Writing Challenge Day 6

 

Someone who fascinates you and why:

I kind of love this question but it’s also super hard. I tend to get super interested in a person or thing for like a few months and then get distracted by something else that will take up like all of my attention. Queen Elizabeth the First was always sort of fascinating to me. She juggled the shit out of dudes and the world and kept her thrown for herself during a time when that was unheard of in Western culture. Queen Elizabeth the Second is amazing too. I love seeing things about her. So there’s probably a pattern there. Women in power in general fascinated me because they’ve had to work so much harder than dudes to get it and keep it.

I’m also fascinated by Meg Cabot because she’s crazy prolific writing wise and she’s had an amazing career and she’s just this giant nerd.

I love the HELL out of Emily Andras. She’s just.so.amazing. She’s fierce as hell and she does her best to listen when people point out things that can be improved. She’s got this incredible sense of humor and she fights for her people and her shows and her fans and I just admire the hell out of her.

I know it’s hard because there are so many people that have captured my attention.

Crazy Disjointed Madness

My intention was to spend today reading and writing. Instead I’ve been watching TV/movies. Right now I’m watching The Descendants 2 but I also watched a Christmas movie two episodes of Lucifer and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. I didn’t even get up until 1pm.

I should focus on writing. I definitely want to finish writing the Darcy/Natasha story I’ve been working on here and there the last few days. It’s only a couple of hundred words and it’s difficult because I sort of know where I want it to go but I haven’t worked out exactly where I want to get and getting where you want to go when you don’t really know where you’re going. It’s one thing if you think you know where things are going and then they take a turn or something because that happens. It just seems to me that if you have an idea of where it’s going and it takes a turn, the turn is usually organic to the story. Forcing something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not the right thing because you can’t run on “inspiration” all the time. A lot of good writing comes out of forcing yourself to write.

Which is what I should be doing right now or at least after I finish this movie. I still have The Descendants 2 on and I really find it charming. It mean it’s ridiculous and it’s a Disney movie for sure, but it’s really cute and there’s some good songs. Aside from “Rotten to the Core,” I think the music is overall better in the sequel than the first one. I might like the dancing better too. I’d love to see more Uma because I think her story could be a lot of fun to follow through. She’s kind of a badass for a Disney channel villain (hopefully turned good) and I just think there’s a lot of potential in that story. I also hope that if they do another one of these (and I’m almost certain they will) that Gil and Harry (I’m pretty sure those are the names of the sons of Gaston and Captain Hook respectively) will get to be gay. According to some of the things I read, the two actors had done an impromptu kiss during one of the song/dance numbers because there’s a reference to a kiss between two pirates in one of the books, but that the scene got cut. I don’t know if they’ll follow through, but Disney has always had gay undertones in their stories and over time it’s gotten less undertone and more overtones, so I’m hopeful. Plus they’re the ones that printed the Magnus Chase series and the Trials of Apollo and those are suppppeeerrr quuueeeeeeeerrrrr so it’s not like they’re not supportive in general.

Ugh, I’m hungry and … holy shit it is 1 in the morning. I don’t understand how it got that late so fast. I guess I’ve only been up for a bit over 12 hours so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s gotten so late so fast. I told myself I’d do better bed wise tonight but I’m not tired at the moment. I was tired last night because of the week I had staying up too late and being busy at work. Last night I could barely keep my eyes open at 2am and tonight I’m feeling quite awake. I’ve been bouncing around which means that I started typing this post around 11 pm and it’s now 2am and I still haven’t done any work on my story. More ugggghhhhh.

Writing Challenge Day 7

 

My tattoos and what they mean:

My tattoos are pretty straightforward actually. I have a moon peeking around the cloud on my back and lit candle on my foot.There’s a verse in Psalms about “a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” The idea that there’s a higher power out there who wants you to be able to find your way in the dark is just really lovely to me. Plus I just have, in general, a love of the moon and the stars and candles and lamps so both those things made sense to me on basic levels too. My next tattoo will be different likely. I plan to have one more about my love of books, but we’ll see what happens.

Literally Nothing of Importance Here

The 30 Day topic writing challenge was a good idea. It’s pushed me to at least put a few words down each day. They aren’t particularly complex or complicated or anything and they don’t have a minimum word requirement though some of them have requested a list of so many things. Still, not something feels taxing or presses into my feelings of stress.

 

I want to get some writing on my story written tonight and at the same time I want to read. I stayed up too late last night and I thought to myself, at some point today, that I should go to bed early tonight. And then do you know what I thought next? I thought, “eh, I just have to make it through one day before I get to sleep in again.” I am pretty sure that is not a normal healthy response to the question of getting sleep. I should, at the very least, go to sleep at a reasonable time since I have to get up and shower in the morning before I go to work. I’d like to try to get out of that, but I didn’t put on deodorant yesterday so I’m pretty sure I have a bit of funk going on. Plus it’s always good to start fresh. And if I’m really lucky, I won’t have to shower again until before work on Saturday since I'm off on Friday. I'm also seriously tempted to take a sick day, but I really shouldn't call in sick if I'm not sick... right?

 

I’m looking forward to working on Sunday. Sunday mornings the library is closed so you actually get to spend about four hours straight and uninterrupted working on on any projects and paperwork you might have. I haven’t had a Sunday morning work day in a while because the last Sunday I would’ve worked the library was closed for the Christmas holiday. And I only work every third Sunday anyway. I know other people don’t like it. Kim finds a way to make up the hours other places so she doesn’t have to come in Sunday until we open at 1 pm, but I really like it. It’s an easy commute day and then four solid hours of getting to listen to my headphones and work in the office. It’s pretty much heaven in my opinion.

 

We’re getting a new person in a few weeks to replace the woman who retired right before the turn of the New Year. I’m hoping they put her in the Adult Reference office and not in the Teen Office so that I still have the Teen office to myself on Sunday mornings. I guess we’ll see! There are only three of us in the Teen office and there would be four in the adult reference office but they do have more computers than us. The office is smaller, I think, but we have a lot of stuff stored in there too. It’s kind of fun and I feel like Hayley, Jonathan, and I all have really good work chemistry. I’m curious to see what the dynamic will be like with the new person. And then with North County shutting down in a few months for renovations, I suppose it’s possible that some of their staff could be working at our branch for a little while. I know we could use the help with the outreach programs and such so I’m sure the branch manager would happily accept the help. I’ll be interested to see if that happens and if so what effect that has on the branch chemistry in general. There are like four new part time aides coming too, so I’m looking forward to that as well.

 

Okay well I’m going to attempt to write a little more on my story before my computer runs out of battery. I could mess about with getting the cord to plug it in, but I think I’m better using the battery I have and then heading to bed.