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vjs2259

Here We Come a-Updating...

Aug 04, 2010 18:24

Five or so things make a Post--

The computer professional at work, who is copying my hard drive remotely onto my new computer (exciting!)...has locked up my old computer so I couldn't access my e-mail. It kept telling me I needed to 'verify my credentials'. Finally it shut down completely and won't let me on no matter how much I beg. I leave on ( Read more... )

astrophysics, b5, aliens are among us, computer woes, reading, queen, real life, writing

Comments 6

wendelah1 August 5 2010, 05:32:38 UTC

I want to read that book now.

vjs2259 August 5 2010, 21:25:22 UTC

Me too! And I was so surprised, and surprised I was surprised, when I found out he'd gone back to get his doctorate in astrophysics!

kungfuwaynewho August 5 2010, 16:48:14 UTC

I've been trying to read at least one fic a day. If I keep it just at that, and not, "I have to read every fic by every person right now!" then it stays manageable, and I don't feel awful for not getting around to all of it right now.

vjs2259 August 5 2010, 21:29:32 UTC

It's not so much the time with me (well, it is the lack of time, but that's not the main thing). It's the intimidation factor. If I read a lot of good stuff, I tend to crawl into a hole and hide. Sometimes I pull the hole in after me. It's not a pleasant trait, but there it is.
I plan to copy a lot of stuff over to my e-reader and read it on vacation. I don't feel the same anxiety on the reader, for some reason. Maybe it's the distance, or the lack of ability to comment.

kungfuwaynewho August 5 2010, 21:37:00 UTC

I get that. I feel that way sometimes watching a really good movie or episode of TV. "I'll never be able to write like that," I say. Sometimes I have to take time off from writing, but more often I try to find something I wrote that I know is good - even if it's just a single line - and remind myself that I am awesome.

Although I feel I should point out at this juncture that you're a wonderful writer. Not just sayin' that, because I don't do easy pablum praise sandwiches. (Is that...a sentence?) Seriously, though, don't beat yourself up.

vjs2259 August 5 2010, 21:44:09 UTC

That was part of the point of the Archive project, which is stalled, sigh, but that's so I can actually finish John/Anna for this month. It makes me read old stuff, and occasionally I can even say 'Well, that doesn't suck.'

Mmm. pablum praise sandwich. Which reminds me, dinner must be made. I can't actually just feed my boys donuts and nothing else.

Can I?