*coughs*

[aquabean]

It feels like I'm breathing through a wet rag. Or like someone's filled my lungs with damp cotton. I don't actually think I'm getting sick, though. It's probably just the sudden change in the weather made my lungs freak out. At least my sinuses aren't playing along with them.

Woke up late this morning and somehow misread the clock. Convinced myself that it was 10min. to 9:00 rather than a quart to 8:00. Ran around the house all "Chicken! No head!" until I got in the car and looked at the clock again. Heh. Fortunately it hadn't started raining again so traffic was light. But now whole day is sideways because I lost an hour, then got it back, and now I don't know what to do with it. I think I'm going to use it tonight around dinner time.

Speaking of dinner, I'm making tacos in the apartment for the first time tonight. It's not a real home until tacos have been eaten there. I also need to go to the grocery store and get lettuce, tomatoes and onions. Oh, and soda. I also need to turn on the dishwasher when I get home because I forgot to before bed last night.

Heh. Looking back at that I am struck by the seer volume of excitement in my life. Though, I can't be arsed to care since there's both Yami and Dai Guard to watch tonight. Woot.



And a meme, stolen from ranalore:

Ask me one question--any one--about my writing. If you feel like it, post this in your LJ so I can satisfy my curiosity about yours.

Comments

taco night

[(Anonymous)]

hey, it better be red soda or i will be sorely disappointed. real mexicans drink red soda :)

made taco's here the other night, but it just wasn't the same. no spices from little mexican mommas and no deep frying (the roommate freaks out at the vat of oil i proposed). but i remembered the good old days in crozier, setting off the fire alarms....

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

You mentioned you're having trouble breaking out of drabbles these days. Why do you think that is?

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Adult ADD is a hard thing to deal with.

Flippant remarks aside, I think that attention span certainly does have something to do with it. Short pieces, drabbles and ficlets, have a sense of completion that a large part of me really needs. The longer it takes me to finish a piece, the more times I have to leave it and come back to it, the more I loose touch with the piece itself. My writing style is so influenced by whatever is happening in the moment a plot bunny bites, that sometimes, to attempt to recapture a feeling or emotional tone becomes next to impossible. That means that anything I add to a story after the initial draft run, doesn't necessarily match in either tone or style.

I too though, I've convinced myself that all I'm capable of are drabbles. A sort of self fulfilling prophesy, if you will. I've been thinking that what I need to do next is do a series of drabbles, all connected, telling a longer story that way. Going from 100 words, to 100 words 8-10 times, to just 800-1000 words seems like the kind "baby steps" way my brain might be willing to accept long writing.

What's most frustrating about all of this is the fact that I have at least three longer WIP sitting on Diego--all I have to do is sit down and actually write them. At some point I WILL finish them. *grins* I should make you beta them, just because. Heh.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I will be happy to beta for you, woman. Lay it on me. *G*

I've noticed when I'm writing "mood" pieces, they have to be written in one sitting or they tend to go off the rails. A lot of your pieces thus far seem very atmospheric, so I wonder if ADD has less to do with it than the nature of the pieces themselves.

I know a few different authors (myself included) for whom writing a series of connected drabbles proved handy in expanding our baseline word count. Better, practicing writing more as a series of drabbles meant we were all still practicing the basic drabble concept of "make every word count," so the words we were adding weren't just filler.

Of course, another option is that you could try your hand at kisses (http://www.livejournal.com/community/wishkisses)....