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What I should do is talk all about my vacation. I'll probably do that eventually but honestly, even though I got back yesterday, I'm really exhausted. That can wait.
Since getting back I've been reminded of a lot of the reasons I needed a vacation in the first place. Living with family is just such a bloody pain in the ass. ... Anyway.
Didn't get as much writing finished while I was away that I had hoped to. The plan was to 1. finish something, 2. make headway on something in progress, and 3. start something else. Well, I finished two drafts, but not two fics, and the drafts are for stories that are so old and so bad that I probably won't be doing anything with them except for posting them in my writing journal and not mentioning them ever again. And I did make headway on the long Norway/Germany fic I'm writing, but not as much as I like. Though I at least completed the scene that I was having trouble with, which is something. Didn't start anything new, though I wanted to, because somehow I just ended up not having the time for it.
I've been roleplaying a ton lately - both before I left for vacation, and a little bit after that. The APH anon meme was having its yearly Battle Royale event so there was no way I was going to miss playing in that... even if I had to stay up until ridiculous hours of the morning to complete some of those threads. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be involved in the same way that I was last year due to time constraints (partly brought on by vacation. I wasn't willing to sacrifice my daytimes in order to get threads done). So what happened was less violence and more angst, alas. Maybe things will be more interesting next year. On the upside, the event sparked a private thread with Monaco, which we'll be using to take our interaction during the BR in a direction that we weren't able to take it during the actual event. And Norway screwed up his friendship with Spain, so following up on that when we both have time will be interesting.
:Va I'm making this all sound like a soap opera, which isn't really the intention, though considering how angst-filled this BR was I suppose it isn't so far off....
... jfc it's 9 PM and I am exhausted, what the hell. I don't understand. Anyway. Unrelated to anything else, I really should start reading more nonfiction. I've been intending to, and in fact I have piles and piles of books on various subjects that I mean to get around to reading, but I never do. I think maybe I'm just usually too blah to even want to engage my brain lately, so I end up reaching for trashy crime novels instead. Not such a bad thing really, but I shouldn't be reading that stuff all the time.
Mind you, I've been having trouble reading fiction, too. Or at least, certain kinds. I started to read Les Miserables and my eyes kind of glazed over after a little while... then again I get the impression that's kind of a common reaction. And it doesn't help that I was trying to read it on the computer. I'd probably do better with a paper copy. (But I don't want to buy it/lug around a big brick of a novel, which is why I was reading the Project Gutenberg version in the first place. Sigh)
Since getting back I've been reminded of a lot of the reasons I needed a vacation in the first place. Living with family is just such a bloody pain in the ass. ... Anyway.
Didn't get as much writing finished while I was away that I had hoped to. The plan was to 1. finish something, 2. make headway on something in progress, and 3. start something else. Well, I finished two drafts, but not two fics, and the drafts are for stories that are so old and so bad that I probably won't be doing anything with them except for posting them in my writing journal and not mentioning them ever again. And I did make headway on the long Norway/Germany fic I'm writing, but not as much as I like. Though I at least completed the scene that I was having trouble with, which is something. Didn't start anything new, though I wanted to, because somehow I just ended up not having the time for it.
I've been roleplaying a ton lately - both before I left for vacation, and a little bit after that. The APH anon meme was having its yearly Battle Royale event so there was no way I was going to miss playing in that... even if I had to stay up until ridiculous hours of the morning to complete some of those threads. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be involved in the same way that I was last year due to time constraints (partly brought on by vacation. I wasn't willing to sacrifice my daytimes in order to get threads done). So what happened was less violence and more angst, alas. Maybe things will be more interesting next year. On the upside, the event sparked a private thread with Monaco, which we'll be using to take our interaction during the BR in a direction that we weren't able to take it during the actual event. And Norway screwed up his friendship with Spain, so following up on that when we both have time will be interesting.
:Va I'm making this all sound like a soap opera, which isn't really the intention, though considering how angst-filled this BR was I suppose it isn't so far off....
... jfc it's 9 PM and I am exhausted, what the hell. I don't understand. Anyway. Unrelated to anything else, I really should start reading more nonfiction. I've been intending to, and in fact I have piles and piles of books on various subjects that I mean to get around to reading, but I never do. I think maybe I'm just usually too blah to even want to engage my brain lately, so I end up reaching for trashy crime novels instead. Not such a bad thing really, but I shouldn't be reading that stuff all the time.
Mind you, I've been having trouble reading fiction, too. Or at least, certain kinds. I started to read Les Miserables and my eyes kind of glazed over after a little while... then again I get the impression that's kind of a common reaction. And it doesn't help that I was trying to read it on the computer. I'd probably do better with a paper copy. (But I don't want to buy it/lug around a big brick of a novel, which is why I was reading the Project Gutenberg version in the first place. Sigh)
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.