Another long post, out of the blue
I'm still laying low -- though not quite as low as I had been during my months at school. I'm very slowly getting caught up on my friends' pages.
I've just been recovering from my last exam. I've started entering detox from my academic factory -- even though I don't yet know the results of my exam -- and easing myself back into the real world.
Today I started reading for pleasure again, the Mabinogion, the cycle of Welsh mythology. I've borrowed stories (stories I've read second-hand) from that book, so I figured I ought to get the stories right from the horse's mouth. I picked up a great, very modern translation while I was in BC, and it's been sitting on my to-read shelf ever since.
Mostly, though, I've been able to throw myself into my novel in a way I haven't been able to while I was going for my master's. I've been writing mostly original material this last week, balancing out some of the stuff that's been cut. I usually do my best work while I'm in BC, but this is stuff of the same quality. I think school was the source of the blockage.
This week, my work schedule is wonky, owing to the once-a-month attendance drive falling on Easter weekend. The gist of it is that I have today off, then work two days, a day off, work two days, a day off, and then work two days :/
I've just been recovering from my last exam. I've started entering detox from my academic factory -- even though I don't yet know the results of my exam -- and easing myself back into the real world.
Today I started reading for pleasure again, the Mabinogion, the cycle of Welsh mythology. I've borrowed stories (stories I've read second-hand) from that book, so I figured I ought to get the stories right from the horse's mouth. I picked up a great, very modern translation while I was in BC, and it's been sitting on my to-read shelf ever since.
Mostly, though, I've been able to throw myself into my novel in a way I haven't been able to while I was going for my master's. I've been writing mostly original material this last week, balancing out some of the stuff that's been cut. I usually do my best work while I'm in BC, but this is stuff of the same quality. I think school was the source of the blockage.
This week, my work schedule is wonky, owing to the once-a-month attendance drive falling on Easter weekend. The gist of it is that I have today off, then work two days, a day off, work two days, a day off, and then work two days :/