a tisket, a tasket
I told myself if I finished 1,000 words today I'd post here, just jabber a bit. I actually didn't make 1,000 but I did 845 and am letting myself do it anyway:)
So, healthwise in brief - currently on Rebif for MS - 3 shots weekly, no heart palpitations, or manageable anyway. I don't really have a problem with giving myself shots, so that's good. Now the RA doc wants me back on methotrexate, which would be another shot a week unless I want to go to the pill. I don't think so, it's nausea-inducing.
Honestly I don't want to do both, so we'll see. The metho is for auto-immune issues as well, but both together seem extreme, both having serious risks and side effects.
I did finish Book I of the forever ongoing werewolf novel and am working on Book II, which should go more easily. More action and more interaction. The problem with the damn thing was in Book I, showing how these two guys, who you maybe don't automatically think would mesh together so well, actually do, and why they yearn after each other and need each other. One of the big reasons has to do with their loneliness, and being alone, both of their own chosing and considering factors that brought them to that point, and how each has bypassed the other's defenses. Which meant alternating pov of two guys who are essentially isolated, bringing them together at times, but then returning them to their environments. Their environments aren't sterile, but their mindsets and by necessity the 'us against them' mentality pushes them toward that. And it's difficult to make that sense of isolation grow while telling an engaging story, at least it was for me.
And also: I will be damned if I ever expected it to go so long. I'm just TERRIBLE at figuring the length of my projects.
And Cass wisely mentioned to me that I might revisit these guys again sometime - I don't think I ever said that, but I THOUGHT it. Who knows when I'll be done with these guys?
I still have several projects sitting from years ago. One is around 70,000 words and unfinished, one is a rough draft around 40,000 words, another is maybe 20,000? Don't remember. Sure hope I get to them. I never meant to let them sit. Now on my worst days (or maybe just my most depressed) I wonder if I'll ever have the ability to finish them.
But I've enjoyed spending money in the name of inspiration while writing. Wouldn't you know;) Years ago on Clare London's blog, I wrote about the rough draft and how I enjoyed getting perfume and music that ties in to my projects. Conjure Oil's Pan perfume (still love it - white sage, pine, red musk) and Satyr from bpal, and pan pipes music (solemn, but enjoyable).
I continue to do the same with the werewolves - I revisited my beloved childhood werewolf comic (of which I still own), Werewolf By Night, and a new comic, Wolf Moon.
Also more perfume - I do love these online perfume places. I have Wolfsbane (discontinued from bpal), Fenris Wolf, Loup Garou (all fairly masculine but crisp and clean, and I luckily wear a lot of men's perfmes very well - it's all about chemistry), and then Alpha and Beta, which are softer (and which are actually perfumes I discussed with the etsy perfumer at CherrykasTrunk. He's a fan of Dean and Sam Winchester. And we discussed my Beneath the Neon Moon and talked back and forth, and he came up with these perfumes, Alpha representing alpha Dean Winchester and Beta repping Sam).
Then I wote that Under the Red Hood story, and I already had Cherrykas' Nightwing perfume, Flying, so of course what did I do next? Got the Jason one (Cardinal) of course. And I bought this Nightwing comic. Pretty, yes? It's a bit of a controversial issue.
Because I have two more stories coming up in that verse, and then next will be an Alias Smith and Jones story. And of course I have scents I can wear and play with for that - some leather scents, Black Rider and White Rider, and Tombstone for starters. I think I have a blooddrop cowboy scent as well (yep, Old Timey Corpse Cowboy).
Oh, just chanced upon a nice, short, dark SPN read (check the warnings): Burn
Dean wants to watch the whole world burn. But he doesn't want to do it alone.
And if anyone reads Justified stories, Cass pointed me to a Raylan-as-prostitute story in which he never left Harlan. The author keeps his voice just the way you'd imagine if he'd never managed to get out. It's Tim/Raylan, an eight part series: Timely by MissJeeves at a03. I enjoyed it a lot.
Anyway, I'm still around and apparently blabbering about writing, reading, comics and perfume (oh, and wondering wtf Miley Cirus was doing with that cover of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper music on Conan, how fucking bizarre).
So, healthwise in brief - currently on Rebif for MS - 3 shots weekly, no heart palpitations, or manageable anyway. I don't really have a problem with giving myself shots, so that's good. Now the RA doc wants me back on methotrexate, which would be another shot a week unless I want to go to the pill. I don't think so, it's nausea-inducing.
Honestly I don't want to do both, so we'll see. The metho is for auto-immune issues as well, but both together seem extreme, both having serious risks and side effects.
I did finish Book I of the forever ongoing werewolf novel and am working on Book II, which should go more easily. More action and more interaction. The problem with the damn thing was in Book I, showing how these two guys, who you maybe don't automatically think would mesh together so well, actually do, and why they yearn after each other and need each other. One of the big reasons has to do with their loneliness, and being alone, both of their own chosing and considering factors that brought them to that point, and how each has bypassed the other's defenses. Which meant alternating pov of two guys who are essentially isolated, bringing them together at times, but then returning them to their environments. Their environments aren't sterile, but their mindsets and by necessity the 'us against them' mentality pushes them toward that. And it's difficult to make that sense of isolation grow while telling an engaging story, at least it was for me.
And also: I will be damned if I ever expected it to go so long. I'm just TERRIBLE at figuring the length of my projects.
And Cass wisely mentioned to me that I might revisit these guys again sometime - I don't think I ever said that, but I THOUGHT it. Who knows when I'll be done with these guys?
I still have several projects sitting from years ago. One is around 70,000 words and unfinished, one is a rough draft around 40,000 words, another is maybe 20,000? Don't remember. Sure hope I get to them. I never meant to let them sit. Now on my worst days (or maybe just my most depressed) I wonder if I'll ever have the ability to finish them.
But I've enjoyed spending money in the name of inspiration while writing. Wouldn't you know;) Years ago on Clare London's blog, I wrote about the rough draft and how I enjoyed getting perfume and music that ties in to my projects. Conjure Oil's Pan perfume (still love it - white sage, pine, red musk) and Satyr from bpal, and pan pipes music (solemn, but enjoyable).
I continue to do the same with the werewolves - I revisited my beloved childhood werewolf comic (of which I still own), Werewolf By Night, and a new comic, Wolf Moon.
Also more perfume - I do love these online perfume places. I have Wolfsbane (discontinued from bpal), Fenris Wolf, Loup Garou (all fairly masculine but crisp and clean, and I luckily wear a lot of men's perfmes very well - it's all about chemistry), and then Alpha and Beta, which are softer (and which are actually perfumes I discussed with the etsy perfumer at CherrykasTrunk. He's a fan of Dean and Sam Winchester. And we discussed my Beneath the Neon Moon and talked back and forth, and he came up with these perfumes, Alpha representing alpha Dean Winchester and Beta repping Sam).
Then I wote that Under the Red Hood story, and I already had Cherrykas' Nightwing perfume, Flying, so of course what did I do next? Got the Jason one (Cardinal) of course. And I bought this Nightwing comic. Pretty, yes? It's a bit of a controversial issue.
Because I have two more stories coming up in that verse, and then next will be an Alias Smith and Jones story. And of course I have scents I can wear and play with for that - some leather scents, Black Rider and White Rider, and Tombstone for starters. I think I have a blooddrop cowboy scent as well (yep, Old Timey Corpse Cowboy).
Oh, just chanced upon a nice, short, dark SPN read (check the warnings): Burn
Dean wants to watch the whole world burn. But he doesn't want to do it alone.
And if anyone reads Justified stories, Cass pointed me to a Raylan-as-prostitute story in which he never left Harlan. The author keeps his voice just the way you'd imagine if he'd never managed to get out. It's Tim/Raylan, an eight part series: Timely by MissJeeves at a03. I enjoyed it a lot.
Anyway, I'm still around and apparently blabbering about writing, reading, comics and perfume (oh, and wondering wtf Miley Cirus was doing with that cover of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper music on Conan, how fucking bizarre).