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( Some grumbling about history and my difficulties with learning it )

I guess it's not that big a deal, but I've been feeling kind of self-conscious about the stuff I write lately. It's a really frustrating situation.

Anyway, leaving that aside, lately I've been thinking about my trip to Halifax. I kind of hope that while I'm there, I might get some inspiration to work on an old story that I had planned out, but never started writing. It's an original story, set in Halifax, about two brothers who work in a haunted restaurant. It's kind of inspired by the Five Fishermen restaurant (which has great food, by the way), though more from the general idea of that setting, rather than the stories about that specific place.

So, I'm hoping that while I'm there, I'll be able to soak up the atmosphere a bit and decide how I want to go about writing that story. Get a feeling of Halifax again, remember the atmosphere, maybe head to the library to do a bit of research, and - of course - take lunch at the Five Fishermen. Purely for writing purposes, of course. ;)

It'll be interesting if I do manage to get this thing written, or at least started. Horror is definitely not a genre that I usually write, and I tend to write things that are more character-driven than plot-driven. But... with luck, this will be both challenging and fun. That is, if I can get started.

Anyway, as far as Hetalia fic goes, I found an old one that I wrote in 2010, finished sometime in 2011, and then promptly forgot about. I read it over today, and it actually isn't that bad, so I decided to clean it up a little. It definitely isn't as good as some of the things I have written, but that's all right. It's kind of an unusual story for me in that it has something resembling an actual plot (and without porn, even!). I don't write a lot of things like that. So, it'll be fun to work with, even if it's not as good as some of the things I've written.