Update

[felis_ultharus]

So I've mostly bounced back from Tuesday's news. Things are returning to quasi-normal.

In a crisis, I explode. Then I put the pieces back together very quickly. I've mentally reorganized the next half-year, and quietly gone back to writing and working, which seems to be my life.

I've gotten ten pages written on the not-novel, and thinking about how I'll revise novel #1 when the second copy returns my way.

Tonight, I'm happy. I read A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Shakespeare's most fun comedy. And the anime we're watching would probably make anyone feel better about their own life.

I got a lot of writing done. I'm feeling appreciated at work. And -- and this will only make sense to 7 people on my friends-list -- I've learned a trick to dodging lightning. Sadly, this trick requires me to have my eyes open, which is more than I can manage tonight, so I shall have to save it for tomorrow. I can't seem to get past 60 bolts in my sonambulant state.

There shall be no game this weekend because montrealais will be at an NDP conference helping to hammer out the gay socialist agenda ^_^

If my erstwhile players are interested, I could go for another round of that game we played last time.

Comments

[maidenofirisa.livejournal.com]

If you actually do the 200 bolts of lightning I'll buy you the cookie of your choice (just about the only reward I can afford right now).

Glad to hear there is progress on the not-novel. Hopefully, I'll get my hands on a copy of the Novel soon. (Every time I think of your novel, I imagine an intelligent, thinking being and it's getting kind of weird.)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

You don't have to buy me anything. I'll even show you the trick ^_^

151 bolts later (my current record), I've realized that while my system is infallible so far as the machine is concerned, human error is a problem -- excitement, sweaty thumb, etc. So I still have yet to get to 200 bolts.

Now I'm pausing every 20th bolt, and doing relaxing things in between. It's currently paused at 100.

It may be after December when you get a chance to see the novel. montrealais has gotten back to me, and em_fish has gotten far. I'll probably work on it when I'm in BC -- for some reason I seem to write better in BC, and the best passages of my novel were written there.

Once it's re-tooled, I'll make more copies so more people can read it at once.

[maidenofirisa.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand how anyone can do that 200 bolts of lightning thing. If I really practiced and tried I would probably fail at around 197 and just give up out of frustration.

If BC works for you work on it there. I've given up trying to understand writers anyway.

As long as I get to read it one day, I'll be happy.:)

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

(Every time I think of your novel, I imagine an intelligent, thinking being and it's getting kind of weird.)

Oh, good, I'm not the only one. ^^;; Then again, I'm the one who tells people that every piece of fiction they see me produce is actually written by the Paranoid Author, who has the loft apartment in the back of my head. She types these things out on an old IBM Selectric and then shoves them backwards through the mail slot for me to pick up when they're done...

[maidenofirisa.livejournal.com]

I'm also glad to hear I'm not alone!

I think that from now on, everytime I'm going to see a writer, I'll imagine a crazy little person, living in their minds, writing stuff.