keeping the wonder alive
i think the best thing about having annual leave is the sleep. You get more of it, you can stay up later and you can relax and doze in the mornings without having to drag your carcass outta bed at 9am to get ready for the late shift that you know won't see you return to your bed until 10pm that evening. And get what sleep you can before returning to work the following morning at 6.10am.
Which is when I officially get up, but I'm often awake at 5.50am.
Currently though it's hard to keep focused and healthy and NOT spending money like it's water. Which is the hardest because hey.. that's why we go to work right? it's not just the making the money it's also not having the ability to spend the stuff.
Today hasn't been a very good day on that front, I've had to pay for the chiropodist (feet not back) and put the gas in the car - which cost a fortune but hey, i'm preaching to the choir on that front, right? - and tomorrow I've got counseling. And next week there's the chiropractor (back not feet) and I'm going to try and see my friend for the movies and food, and get a wax session.
And probably put more gas in the car. Shit this is depressing. I think I better go back to work..
I've also hit a small block with my writing.
It's still working but I felt like a car trapped in a field earlier on in the week. My wheels were spinning ergo I was writing but the car/plot wasn't going anyway. So I stopped and until I get some advice on the weekend I'm resorting to longhand situations to keep my ideas flowing. I think this is the best in the short-term, and I'm amazed I lasted to the 38,000 words mark by writing linearly.
It's weird, I know the odds of anything happening to this are small at best, like 10% small, but I'm really enjoying writing it, and I know that is the reason why the vast majority of writers write. Getting stuff published is often the byproduct of something that gives enjoyment. And for the most time is an inexpensive pursuit. It's just cool to create characters with which you could see in reality, ones that are based on other people, based upon pieces of yourself in certain situations, ones that are homages to others whom only you, the author, know about. It feels special.
I'm also doing another X-men piece. I did one way back when in the mid nineties which was just something to do - which I think is how I tend to view my writing sometimes, something that keeps me occupied and away from "I bored" territory.
And while we're on that subject I wish we could make a film/teevee show about Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld universe. Her werewolves, vampires and half-demons kick the arse of anything Stephanie Meyer's done. But hey, I guess Meyer's stuff's more popular so there we go.
Which is when I officially get up, but I'm often awake at 5.50am.
Currently though it's hard to keep focused and healthy and NOT spending money like it's water. Which is the hardest because hey.. that's why we go to work right? it's not just the making the money it's also not having the ability to spend the stuff.
Today hasn't been a very good day on that front, I've had to pay for the chiropodist (feet not back) and put the gas in the car - which cost a fortune but hey, i'm preaching to the choir on that front, right? - and tomorrow I've got counseling. And next week there's the chiropractor (back not feet) and I'm going to try and see my friend for the movies and food, and get a wax session.
And probably put more gas in the car. Shit this is depressing. I think I better go back to work..
I've also hit a small block with my writing.
It's still working but I felt like a car trapped in a field earlier on in the week. My wheels were spinning ergo I was writing but the car/plot wasn't going anyway. So I stopped and until I get some advice on the weekend I'm resorting to longhand situations to keep my ideas flowing. I think this is the best in the short-term, and I'm amazed I lasted to the 38,000 words mark by writing linearly.
It's weird, I know the odds of anything happening to this are small at best, like 10% small, but I'm really enjoying writing it, and I know that is the reason why the vast majority of writers write. Getting stuff published is often the byproduct of something that gives enjoyment. And for the most time is an inexpensive pursuit. It's just cool to create characters with which you could see in reality, ones that are based on other people, based upon pieces of yourself in certain situations, ones that are homages to others whom only you, the author, know about. It feels special.
I'm also doing another X-men piece. I did one way back when in the mid nineties which was just something to do - which I think is how I tend to view my writing sometimes, something that keeps me occupied and away from "I bored" territory.
And while we're on that subject I wish we could make a film/teevee show about Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld universe. Her werewolves, vampires and half-demons kick the arse of anything Stephanie Meyer's done. But hey, I guess Meyer's stuff's more popular so there we go.