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[the_rck]

They have actually gone out in the boat, so I’ve got some time to myself. I haven’t settled enough to write fic yet. Instead, I’ve been going through emails more than a decade old and trying to save off whatever information made me decide to keep them. Basically, when I delete the Earthlink address some of those emails will vanish, and I’m not actually sure which ones. I was going to get rid of that account on my email profile, and the program gave me a huge warning about deleting all associated messages.

Mainly, I’ve got a lot of emails from a Yahoo list I belonged to in 2003/2004 that include a lot of snippets of historical research that might or might not be useful for a fic I’ve had in my WIP folder since then. Sadly, most of the messages are links to websites that simply no longer exist. Or maybe that’s not so awful— It means I can delete the messages and not worry that I’m losing important information.

I kind of just want to lie down and sleep right now. Maybe I will. I don’t know. I need to write, but I’m not sure I can do it right now. If I were at home, I’d have some tea or some orange juice and some cheese or some almonds, but all I’ve got here is water which, for some reason, doesn’t help nearly so much (at all).

I also want to talk to someone, but the internet here won’t support my chat programs. Anybody want to talk about anything in comments here?

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[lunabee34]

I'll talk about stuff.

What kind of historical research?

[luminations.livejournal.com]

You're probably settled in to write by now, or perhaps napping.

I was supposed to lose my Cox email address when I changed providers a couple years ago, but I can still get into it. I thought I had 60 days to go through everything I wanted to keep... with most things I ended up just saying "fuck it" because of all the stuff I feel like keeping, very little of it is anything I actually end up looking at in the future. I'm not sure when I think I'm going to get all nostalgic and want to go through all this saved crap I have.

And from the other post... like with your Amber characters, I wonder how Harry Potter isn't royally messed up after the awful childhood he had. How could he possibly know anything about love or friendship when he's never experienced it up through age 11?? But, Rowling had a story to tell, and delving too deeply into Harry's psyche would have hindered it.