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bedlamsbardInteresting. I am currently in one of those moods where I am absolutely positively certain that I am the least productive member of fandom, ever. Part of that is because for the first time in a while I'm not writing every day -- and I actually have no idea why this is, it's not like I don't have the time, I have nothing but time at the moment -- and part of that is because I haven't put anything out for a while, and part of that is because (and I think this goes back to the why I'm not writing every day thing) I didn't get the feedback I expected for the last few parts of Dust, yes, I am shallow, hi! Now I remember why posting WIPs is bad. Also, I am a basketcase, have I mentioned that? Yes.
Also, because the current WIP is in past-tense and stars all original characters, aside from some chick named Lucy who only briefly appears onscreen. But on the plus side, it takes place in a setting that is actually canon! Albeit a setting that we never see in the actual series, book or movie. I still consider this a step up from Four Things Greater, although that one at least had the benefit of partially taking placce in Narnia, and also somewhat more interaction with a canon character. Two, even! On the other hand, Four Things Greater was written in three days, not three weeks.
Also, because I haven't yet started my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
narniaexchange fic and clearly I should have started it back when I first got it and was enthused, instead of waiting until the current WIP was done. The current WIP was Dust 18; we all know how well that went. Also, if it's going to have the bit with the Narnian Oh Shenandoah, I should probably write the Narnian "Oh Shenandoah." (Do you think I am kidding? I am not kidding. I direct you to exhibits A, B, C, and D, which can in short be summed up as "Narnian ballads", "Narnian army cadences", "Narnian children's rhymes", and "Narnian sea shanties." Also, on occasion, exhibit E, which gets summed up as "Narnian history primers, oh, how we get history wrong.") And then I thought, "hey, I'll finish Coastwise first," which means I had better finish Coastwise soon.
Also, Washington is going through a heat wave (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xianghua, apparently, Oregon is also going through a heatwave, since at some point during the last week Umatilla was a lovely ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN DEGREES, which makes the mere one hundred and four we have in Ellensburg seem mild by comparison) which makes my computer heat up, which makes me less inclined to type since my wrists rest on that space beneath the keyboard next to the touchpad which probably has a name and, well, I'm not in the handwriting mood currently; it seems kind of slow and pointless to handwrite at the moment when typing is so much faster. However, I have been knitting more these past few weeks than I have been writing; please do not ask me how my mind works, I do not know. I would like to point out that I have primarily been knitting with cotton or a cotton blend, though, not wool.
Also, because I have not seen the source material in an age of men; no, I do not understand why, I own the DVDs, I have all this free time, I knit and watch TV, etc. Perhaps because I don't want to use the television during the day and because see the computer heating up issue; DVDs make it do so even faster. However, I think I am starting to forget that there is actual canon for my fandom.
Also, because I think my brain processes things faster during the school year, when I was approximately ten billion times more productive. Don't worry! I am back to school in three weeks, whereupon given the fact that it's New Orleans in summer and about a million times more humid than it is here (and please, please, please let my new dorm have air conditioning, which I think it does because it's a fairly new building) though not a hundred billion degrees, I expect to spend a lot of time in my room (which...I do here, too), and I will hopefully be productive again.
Also, Dust depressed the hell out of me by what we might call my inability to write Dust 18. (Or my ability to write every version of Dust 18 except the one that makes sense, shall we say.) At some point I will be able to think about starting Dust 18 without twitching so violently I briefly pass into another dimension. If you ever want to a depress a writer for a while? Make her stop in the middle of a WIP. It does wonders for her self-worth and train of thought, and I am not talking the good kind of wonders.
Also, I for some strange reason don't actually have much of an inclination to write right now, and I'm not sure why -- it may be because I'm reading a lot (seriously, I think I've read more books in the past month than I did the entire school year, even counting the ten million books I had to read for Victorianism) and thus don't need to amuse myself. *shrug* It may be because of the forgot the source material thing; always possible. I am not, however, reading much fic, somewhat because there's no particular fandom I feel compelled to go out and read stuff in. (I am so sick of Merlin right now that even typing the words "Merlin" and "Arthur" and "Uther" make me blanch. I'm sorry, Merlin fans; I just can't handle it at the moment. It's interesting. I would be more interested if I wasn't hastily backspacing or going on to the next LJ in my lurker list whenever I happen to run across Merli refs, but then it woulddn't be interesting. This is made somewhat difficult by the fact that there is a fairly large overlap between Narnia fans and Merlin fans. Um. Hi! I'm Bedlam, and I'm a basketcase! Also, my general inclination towards reading in a fandom is, "Is an author I already read writing in it? Then I suppose I shall read." My fannish reading experience gets smaller and smaller all the time.)
Also, I mentioned a few entries ago that I was going through one of those phases where I can't listen to music and write at the same time? Yeah. That. Which is weird, because it's not usually a major issue.
How many times can I use the word "also" in a single post? THIS MANY, apparently. I would like to start writing again, brain! I am extremely annoyed by this inclination to do nothing of the sort. I am THIS ANNOYED by it.
Also, because the current WIP is in past-tense and stars all original characters, aside from some chick named Lucy who only briefly appears onscreen. But on the plus side, it takes place in a setting that is actually canon! Albeit a setting that we never see in the actual series, book or movie. I still consider this a step up from Four Things Greater, although that one at least had the benefit of partially taking placce in Narnia, and also somewhat more interaction with a canon character. Two, even! On the other hand, Four Things Greater was written in three days, not three weeks.
Also, because I haven't yet started my
narniaexchange fic and clearly I should have started it back when I first got it and was enthused, instead of waiting until the current WIP was done. The current WIP was Dust 18; we all know how well that went. Also, if it's going to have the bit with the Narnian Oh Shenandoah, I should probably write the Narnian "Oh Shenandoah." (Do you think I am kidding? I am not kidding. I direct you to exhibits A, B, C, and D, which can in short be summed up as "Narnian ballads", "Narnian army cadences", "Narnian children's rhymes", and "Narnian sea shanties." Also, on occasion, exhibit E, which gets summed up as "Narnian history primers, oh, how we get history wrong.") And then I thought, "hey, I'll finish Coastwise first," which means I had better finish Coastwise soon.Also, Washington is going through a heat wave (
xianghua, apparently, Oregon is also going through a heatwave, since at some point during the last week Umatilla was a lovely ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN DEGREES, which makes the mere one hundred and four we have in Ellensburg seem mild by comparison) which makes my computer heat up, which makes me less inclined to type since my wrists rest on that space beneath the keyboard next to the touchpad which probably has a name and, well, I'm not in the handwriting mood currently; it seems kind of slow and pointless to handwrite at the moment when typing is so much faster. However, I have been knitting more these past few weeks than I have been writing; please do not ask me how my mind works, I do not know. I would like to point out that I have primarily been knitting with cotton or a cotton blend, though, not wool.Also, because I have not seen the source material in an age of men; no, I do not understand why, I own the DVDs, I have all this free time, I knit and watch TV, etc. Perhaps because I don't want to use the television during the day and because see the computer heating up issue; DVDs make it do so even faster. However, I think I am starting to forget that there is actual canon for my fandom.
Also, because I think my brain processes things faster during the school year, when I was approximately ten billion times more productive. Don't worry! I am back to school in three weeks, whereupon given the fact that it's New Orleans in summer and about a million times more humid than it is here (and please, please, please let my new dorm have air conditioning, which I think it does because it's a fairly new building) though not a hundred billion degrees, I expect to spend a lot of time in my room (which...I do here, too), and I will hopefully be productive again.
Also, Dust depressed the hell out of me by what we might call my inability to write Dust 18. (Or my ability to write every version of Dust 18 except the one that makes sense, shall we say.) At some point I will be able to think about starting Dust 18 without twitching so violently I briefly pass into another dimension. If you ever want to a depress a writer for a while? Make her stop in the middle of a WIP. It does wonders for her self-worth and train of thought, and I am not talking the good kind of wonders.
Also, I for some strange reason don't actually have much of an inclination to write right now, and I'm not sure why -- it may be because I'm reading a lot (seriously, I think I've read more books in the past month than I did the entire school year, even counting the ten million books I had to read for Victorianism) and thus don't need to amuse myself. *shrug* It may be because of the forgot the source material thing; always possible. I am not, however, reading much fic, somewhat because there's no particular fandom I feel compelled to go out and read stuff in. (I am so sick of Merlin right now that even typing the words "Merlin" and "Arthur" and "Uther" make me blanch. I'm sorry, Merlin fans; I just can't handle it at the moment. It's interesting. I would be more interested if I wasn't hastily backspacing or going on to the next LJ in my lurker list whenever I happen to run across Merli refs, but then it woulddn't be interesting. This is made somewhat difficult by the fact that there is a fairly large overlap between Narnia fans and Merlin fans. Um. Hi! I'm Bedlam, and I'm a basketcase! Also, my general inclination towards reading in a fandom is, "Is an author I already read writing in it? Then I suppose I shall read." My fannish reading experience gets smaller and smaller all the time.)
Also, I mentioned a few entries ago that I was going through one of those phases where I can't listen to music and write at the same time? Yeah. That. Which is weird, because it's not usually a major issue.
How many times can I use the word "also" in a single post? THIS MANY, apparently. I would like to start writing again, brain! I am extremely annoyed by this inclination to do nothing of the sort. I am THIS ANNOYED by it.