this skill with the quill is undeniable (er, maybe)
My big outing today was going to get groceries (like a hero, she whispered to herself as she hauled the bags back two blocks), and even though it was fairly mild today, I did not go out again. Meh. I had a proper walk yesterday.
To be honest I am devoting a lot of brain-time towards thinking about Star Wars, even now. This is how I work: I get very passionate about one thing, and devote a lot of time and energy towards being passionate about that thing, and then I move onto the next thing. But once I latch onto something, that fire never really goes out; the embers stay with me for good. I may be a little choosy over what I get passionate about, because it's a life commitment. (Which is to say I still love Hamilton but it is no longer front-and-center, and that is, frankly, okay. Man I listened to all-Hamiltunes all the time for almost four months straight, it's nice to remember there's other music out there!) Star Wars may be the best example of this, honestly, because while I don't remember being utterly in love with it as a kid (that was my brother), I certainly enjoyed the films quite a lot, and that obviously stayed with me.
Anyway so I am still thinking about Star Wars, and specifically about Finn, and Poe Dameron, and Rey, and Luke and Leia, and I have a lot of feelings for all of them. It's pretty wonderful, a really good headspace to dive into. On a related note, at the beginning of February I set myself a goal to write at least 500 words every day, 500 words of fiction, and began a Star Wars fanfic about Finn. It's currently over 18K words. I'm writing between 500 and 1100 words a day. It is utterly a first draft, but I am inordinately pleased with myself all the same. So I'm not saying that Star Wars pulled me out of a real tight spot, because that would discount all the other factors involved, but I will say that Star Wars helps me keep my head up, just like Hamilton does, and that's not nothing. Not nothing at all.
To be honest I am devoting a lot of brain-time towards thinking about Star Wars, even now. This is how I work: I get very passionate about one thing, and devote a lot of time and energy towards being passionate about that thing, and then I move onto the next thing. But once I latch onto something, that fire never really goes out; the embers stay with me for good. I may be a little choosy over what I get passionate about, because it's a life commitment. (Which is to say I still love Hamilton but it is no longer front-and-center, and that is, frankly, okay. Man I listened to all-Hamiltunes all the time for almost four months straight, it's nice to remember there's other music out there!) Star Wars may be the best example of this, honestly, because while I don't remember being utterly in love with it as a kid (that was my brother), I certainly enjoyed the films quite a lot, and that obviously stayed with me.
Anyway so I am still thinking about Star Wars, and specifically about Finn, and Poe Dameron, and Rey, and Luke and Leia, and I have a lot of feelings for all of them. It's pretty wonderful, a really good headspace to dive into. On a related note, at the beginning of February I set myself a goal to write at least 500 words every day, 500 words of fiction, and began a Star Wars fanfic about Finn. It's currently over 18K words. I'm writing between 500 and 1100 words a day. It is utterly a first draft, but I am inordinately pleased with myself all the same. So I'm not saying that Star Wars pulled me out of a real tight spot, because that would discount all the other factors involved, but I will say that Star Wars helps me keep my head up, just like Hamilton does, and that's not nothing. Not nothing at all.