It's Thursday!
My 'morning writing time' has been taken up with a 'Horror Haiku' challenge this week. More here. I'm not sure what I produced really counts as horror but it features a vampire, so I'm going to send it in. Watch this space...
My 'evening writing time' has been spent on NaNo planning, which is coming along really well. Too well...? I need to finish expanding the one pager to a four pager (it might not make four pages but it will be expanded) and then I can spend the rest of the month writing detailed character sheets. I am SO on top of this! Either this means that what I produce as a first draft will be closer to what was the fourth draft for Mannerley... OR I'll get a week in and abandon it in disgust.
And I got my own copy of 'Spark'. I should probably sign it, then it'll be worth something in a hundred years!
Watched the very first episode of DS9 last night. Lovefilm only have it on DVD and I really did see a difference in quality between that and the Blu-rays I've been watching TNG on. Anyway, a chance to fall in love with these characters all over again.
Kingsglaive will be sent out at the end of October. Amazon tried to persuade me to buy it but I know I won't watch it enough to justify spending £10 on it. I think I watched Advent's Children about three times, tops.
And the process of handing me over to my new line manager has begun! I am very much looking forward to working with the new person. He seems to appreciate ME and definitely understands the work I do. But, with an eye to the Tao stuff below, we won't get TOO excited!
Just time for some Tao...
DAY 12 - CONTROLLING THE SENSES
Don't be a slave to possessions, the need for praise, or the fear of blame. The last one is actually the one I struggle with most. I hate being told I've done something 'wrong'.
One of our attitudes at St Bride's is that everything we do is an experiment. If it works, great - if it doesn't, no biggy. I can treat my own work, writing, truth-seeking, etc as an experiment, but if other people see it as 'wrong' or 'failed', that can still bring me down. I will make more of an effort to treat everything as an experiment and to ignore negative comments about it!
I also realise that I am still overly attached to praise. I don't expect praise as my right the way I once did, but I do still want it and enjoy it when I get it.
There's a line in the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling:
'If you can treat with triumph and disaster
'And treat those two imposters just the same'
I'm better at this... But there's always room for improvement, right?
My 'evening writing time' has been spent on NaNo planning, which is coming along really well. Too well...? I need to finish expanding the one pager to a four pager (it might not make four pages but it will be expanded) and then I can spend the rest of the month writing detailed character sheets. I am SO on top of this! Either this means that what I produce as a first draft will be closer to what was the fourth draft for Mannerley... OR I'll get a week in and abandon it in disgust.
And I got my own copy of 'Spark'. I should probably sign it, then it'll be worth something in a hundred years!
Watched the very first episode of DS9 last night. Lovefilm only have it on DVD and I really did see a difference in quality between that and the Blu-rays I've been watching TNG on. Anyway, a chance to fall in love with these characters all over again.
Kingsglaive will be sent out at the end of October. Amazon tried to persuade me to buy it but I know I won't watch it enough to justify spending £10 on it. I think I watched Advent's Children about three times, tops.
And the process of handing me over to my new line manager has begun! I am very much looking forward to working with the new person. He seems to appreciate ME and definitely understands the work I do. But, with an eye to the Tao stuff below, we won't get TOO excited!
Just time for some Tao...
DAY 12 - CONTROLLING THE SENSES
Don't be a slave to possessions, the need for praise, or the fear of blame. The last one is actually the one I struggle with most. I hate being told I've done something 'wrong'.
One of our attitudes at St Bride's is that everything we do is an experiment. If it works, great - if it doesn't, no biggy. I can treat my own work, writing, truth-seeking, etc as an experiment, but if other people see it as 'wrong' or 'failed', that can still bring me down. I will make more of an effort to treat everything as an experiment and to ignore negative comments about it!
I also realise that I am still overly attached to praise. I don't expect praise as my right the way I once did, but I do still want it and enjoy it when I get it.
There's a line in the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling:
'If you can treat with triumph and disaster
'And treat those two imposters just the same'
I'm better at this... But there's always room for improvement, right?