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Dec. 24th, 2016 08:15 amI got no phone calls made yesterday. I just couldn’t face them. Not at all. I feel terrible about that because they’re all things for Cordelia that are fairly urgent. I also couldn’t face wrapping presents, so all of Scott’s things are in gift bags. He can wrap Cordelia’s presents today while she’s out.
Cordelia had three friends over last night. They claimed they were going to watch a movie, but there was a lot of shrieking (happy), running around, and giggling. Just based on listening to them, I’d have thought that the girls were several years younger. I think they watched about the first ten minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier over the course of four hours.
Cordelia has convinced one of her friends to watch Avatar: the Last Airbender and has promised, in return, to watch Jane the Virgin. Cordelia is several episodes in. This is not something I’ve watched or likely would have chosen to watch, but I’m getting bits and pieces. It’s good at what it does, but what it does is not something that appeals to me in a TV show as a general thing. I need SF/fantasy elements most of the time, not always, but most of the time. Soap opera type stuff kind of stresses me out.
I tried to nap yesterday because I was exhausted, but Scott’s mother texted me about every half an hour with another question about Christmas plans. I probably should have asked her to wait. I wonder whether, if I’d managed to catch up on sleep, I’d have been able to make those phone calls.
I did some writing last night, all on House of Sulfur and Mercury. I worked on two different bits that are widely separated in the timeline. The first is difficult because I don’t know where it’s going. The second is difficult because I’ve figured out where it’s going and don’t like it. It makes perfect sense for the characters, but I think it would be a tragic ending for the POV character. He doesn’t think so, but I do. I’ve been waiting to finish one or the other section before sharing them with anyone, but I may need to ask my first reader/cheerleader to take a look.
I wanted to try to write a Yuletide treat, but I haven’t been able to focus enough to start anything. There are somewhere between ten and twenty prompts that I could write pretty easily, but I’m not likely to finish anything by the deadline, so it’s hard to start. There’s also one fandom I’d like to write but where none of the requests fit the two ideas I have in my head. I’m a little afraid, too, that both stories would end up novel length if I’m extremely careful.
Cordelia had three friends over last night. They claimed they were going to watch a movie, but there was a lot of shrieking (happy), running around, and giggling. Just based on listening to them, I’d have thought that the girls were several years younger. I think they watched about the first ten minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier over the course of four hours.
Cordelia has convinced one of her friends to watch Avatar: the Last Airbender and has promised, in return, to watch Jane the Virgin. Cordelia is several episodes in. This is not something I’ve watched or likely would have chosen to watch, but I’m getting bits and pieces. It’s good at what it does, but what it does is not something that appeals to me in a TV show as a general thing. I need SF/fantasy elements most of the time, not always, but most of the time. Soap opera type stuff kind of stresses me out.
I tried to nap yesterday because I was exhausted, but Scott’s mother texted me about every half an hour with another question about Christmas plans. I probably should have asked her to wait. I wonder whether, if I’d managed to catch up on sleep, I’d have been able to make those phone calls.
I did some writing last night, all on House of Sulfur and Mercury. I worked on two different bits that are widely separated in the timeline. The first is difficult because I don’t know where it’s going. The second is difficult because I’ve figured out where it’s going and don’t like it. It makes perfect sense for the characters, but I think it would be a tragic ending for the POV character. He doesn’t think so, but I do. I’ve been waiting to finish one or the other section before sharing them with anyone, but I may need to ask my first reader/cheerleader to take a look.
I wanted to try to write a Yuletide treat, but I haven’t been able to focus enough to start anything. There are somewhere between ten and twenty prompts that I could write pretty easily, but I’m not likely to finish anything by the deadline, so it’s hard to start. There’s also one fandom I’d like to write but where none of the requests fit the two ideas I have in my head. I’m a little afraid, too, that both stories would end up novel length if I’m extremely careful.
