things I want to talk about!
You know what? I'm feeling pretty good right now.
The show I'm in just opened, and I've finally hit a point where I feel good about the performance, mostly because I realized when the director told me to suck it up and do the work and that I should be less concerned with trying to please her or fight with her, she -- was completely right. (You think I'd have learned that lesson by now! But no, overthinking is an ingrained habit with me.) I think I know what I'm going to write the getting-into-grad-school paper on, and it's a topic I'll do really well. I'm planning a Big Old Party for my twenty-first birthday (which is coming up on November first, yay!) at a lovely Irish pub downtown. Mith and Linden will be staying in my apartment that weekend, and Dad's letting the three of us borrow one of the cars. Saying Yes! is turning into something that's exceeding my wildest expectations, and everything about it just thrills me. And I have stories to tell again -- fannish ones (Cuban Missile Crisis fic! About international reactions and not UST! Russia and China squabbling! Will be finished by 28th of October for Symbolic Purposes [TM]!) and original stories. Oh god, the original stories. I'd really forgotten how much I love to worldbuild, and how much fun I have creating place, not just trying to recapture it. It's a good direction for my writing, too; it frees me from over-reliance on a historical narrative and lets me find my own stories and my own voice.
Definitely a good place to be, I think. So good, it calls for a meme!
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
Fic tag, if you need it. I kind of never get tired of nattering on about my writing, so have at it! The commentary might not always reach soaring heights of literary criticism or whatever, but hopefully it'll be an interesting read either way.
The show I'm in just opened, and I've finally hit a point where I feel good about the performance, mostly because I realized when the director told me to suck it up and do the work and that I should be less concerned with trying to please her or fight with her, she -- was completely right. (You think I'd have learned that lesson by now! But no, overthinking is an ingrained habit with me.) I think I know what I'm going to write the getting-into-grad-school paper on, and it's a topic I'll do really well. I'm planning a Big Old Party for my twenty-first birthday (which is coming up on November first, yay!) at a lovely Irish pub downtown. Mith and Linden will be staying in my apartment that weekend, and Dad's letting the three of us borrow one of the cars. Saying Yes! is turning into something that's exceeding my wildest expectations, and everything about it just thrills me. And I have stories to tell again -- fannish ones (Cuban Missile Crisis fic! About international reactions and not UST! Russia and China squabbling! Will be finished by 28th of October for Symbolic Purposes [TM]!) and original stories. Oh god, the original stories. I'd really forgotten how much I love to worldbuild, and how much fun I have creating place, not just trying to recapture it. It's a good direction for my writing, too; it frees me from over-reliance on a historical narrative and lets me find my own stories and my own voice.
Definitely a good place to be, I think. So good, it calls for a meme!
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
Fic tag, if you need it. I kind of never get tired of nattering on about my writing, so have at it! The commentary might not always reach soaring heights of literary criticism or whatever, but hopefully it'll be an interesting read either way.