Pros and writing and the world and living forever...

[byslantedlight]

New icon! *g* (Thank you moth2fic!)

Also - hurrah, cos I've been writing Pros again, which I've not felt like for ages. My theory is that using your brain is like exercise - it begets more using your brain/exercise... *g* So now that I'm feeling all useful and purposeful with my seasonal-second-job, I get to write Pros too! Hurrah! Of course it all

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[londonronnie]

And it's kind of nice, cos even if no one else wants to read them, I still want to write them... *vbg*

Me! Me! I want to read them!!

Three lovely long Pros stories to look forward to - what a wonderful thought!

[byslantedlight]

Your icon! The looks on their little faces! *hugs lads*

*g*

And hee... trouble is I can't write them now over the weekend when I want to... Why am I always so backwards like that? When I have all the time in the world - nothing... *headdesk*

[snailbones]

And it's kind of nice, cos even if no one else wants to read them, I still want to write them...

Oi! Me too, me too! ::bounces at the merest whiff::

Hell's bells luv, I hope you didn't get caught by the speed camera. ::crosses fingers::

Despite the fact that there are historical accounts of Native Alaskan women having hunted, for example...

LOL - well, if blokes were the same then as they are now, I'd think most women were out there getting the supper. come to think of it, I wouldn't mind a spear when I'm doing battle in Tesco. *g*

[byslantedlight]

Oh I dunno, it's just as often blokes I'd like to use a spear on at the supermarket, even *sniffs haughtily* Waitrose... (shush, it's the closest one... and when they cock up they do do a good apology - my pear juice was fizzy when I tried to drink it, so I took it back and not only did they give me another bottle, but because they refund as well I got my breakfast bagels, milk and about half my packet of ice-creams for free! Wheeee! *g*)

[constant_muse]

The WWII fic - oh, yes pleeeease!

Interesting about your vivid dream *and* rush of creative imagination. If your explanation for it is 'exercise of the brain', mine (and I've often encountered this, although without such spectacular results fic-ideas-wise) is that forcing the brain to concentrate for hours on hard, fairly boring work, like exam revision, makes the imagination force its way out when it finally gets a chance, like when you stop working and go to sleep.

[byslantedlight]

Oh I know, my WWII fic has been languishing for years now, and it's so there in my head - and the books are there on my shelf, I just need to match up all the details and get on with it... And I want to, cos I can so see where it goes and how it gets there too... I will write it this year! Oooh, a write-y goal! *g*

I think my brain is being exercised more than just bored at the moment, cos it's playing with candidates and examiners and sometimes odd-bits-of-knowledge, and all that - but yeah, even so... I'm concentrating hard enough on that stuff, that all the other stuff (jobs etc, I guess!) is popping up in dreams instead of general-worrying-at-it-all-the-time and the fun stuff is wanting to find wee cracks to force itself through too... It's a much better state of affairs, anyway! *g*

Write on!

[heliophile_oxon]

It seems that we (well people generally) have always had immense difficulty in not interpreting what we see through the filter of our own assumptions/prejudices/experience ... I suppose it's easiest to see in texts that are at least slightly outside our own cultural context, such as anthropological texts from a couple of generations ago, or writing about animal behaviour from a similar period - but it still goes on all the bloody time of course, doesn't it! Attenborough generally does better, but half the nature documentaries you see are full of the insane use of terms like "flirting" and being "faithful" or "unfaithful" etc. ::headdesk::

Oh and I WANT TO READ IT. I mean them. All of them. That WWII tale is soooo tantalising .... you know I've been looking forward to it, damn it! *g* So yes! Hurrah that you are writing Pros! Write write write, come on!!!!!

Re: Write on!

[byslantedlight]

Good point even about terms like "flirting" etc... It's so maddening, and I suppose I notice it myself when it's applied to a group I'm part of, and less so at other times. It's such a human thing, but I can't believe we haven't advanced since people began pointing that sort of thing out - why shouldn't there be exceptions to anything in a culture, history is full of them, and yet we still go oooh, noooo, couldn't be! *headdesk*

And hee! Actually I do feel a bit that I've inadvertantly challenged myself now, so... *g*

[moth2fic]

Well if you'd cycled you wouldn't exactly have been breaking the speed limit anyway!! *g*

It's so easily done and I always yell 'cameras' to whoever is driving and they get annoyed and say they knew but really, they don't always notice and it's better to be safe...

Your dream is probably a textbook case of your mind sroting things out in your sleep and moving towards being writer-y again. I can assure you that we will all read whatever you choose to write!!

And the sea angels are indeed cool unless you are prey!

[byslantedlight]

Well, I did notice this one when it popped up, but of course in most cases by the time anyone notices them they've already got you on camera, so... There are static ones (film loaded or not) that I know very well indeed, but when they stick a van camera somewhere sneaky and unexpected when there are already two warnings on that patch... Ooh, maybe it wasn't really for speed at all! Maybe it was some CI5-type sting operation, and they were watching for other things! *g*

And hee for the dream - it was a very sort-y out dream, but it did have some very odd things in it. A chemist of all places! Equivalent of my medical-research-y but basically humdrum job? Who knows! The write-y bit was fun, though, especially waking up not particularly feeling write-y, but immediately being write-y! *g*