Trifecta: Independence Day, part 2

[frogs_of_war]

I feel like I've lost my muse. Nothing I've written recently has moved me. (I'm in the middle of a dozen stories, but have finished nothing, which is why I haven't posted lately). I feel like the muse has been gone a while, but when I looked back over my summer posts, I enjoyed rereading the familiar stories I wrote the end of July/beginning of

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[charisstoma]

I like your 4th of Julys better than the ones here. There's no mosquitoes or dark sweat dripping heat.
Kenneth and Damien got the best seats, lay back and watch the sky. It's old fashioned and there's no lit up pyrotechnic signs you have to be close enough to read and no music other than the fireworks shooting off from the ground and the percussion above. Least that the way I'm seeing it in this chapter.

[frogs_of_war]

No bugs for the most part and highs 75-80 (if it doesn't cloud up)

They'll go back before the fireworks start (they have to be there for Ty's neighborhood display), but they are having a nice, quiet afternoon together.

Going to the river with the all the people crowded together is a hazardous event. Inconsiderate people with illegal fireworks have come close to burning me or someone I was with all three times I've gone. Watching the big display from roofs or upper floors of tall buildings or even just on a street corner is much better.

[mewenn]

Doctor who!!! You watch it too? Not my favourite season at the moment but I really like Capaldi as a doctor.

I get how you feel with the muse thing. I feel like the last good thing I wrote was for… last june. The one I had your help with about the guy who raised his wife's kids though they weren't his own and felt he had to hide who he really was from everyone (yes, he was the main character, the other guy was the actual Love Interest though he had the POV :P) and now I'm working on different things and all of them feel flat and like they are missing the point. And then I read good fiction (I'm re-reading Ocotillo Dawn's Con Sangre) and I want to write something that good and look at what I'm working on and it makes me want to cry. Though I read a blog post from Chuck Wending here and it made me feel better

[frogs_of_war]

My first Doctor was #3. My local public station played one episode every week night when I was a kid

[mewenn]

I started with the reboot and I really liked Eccleston, I also liked how angry and enthusiast he was at the same time. I agree with you about Clara, it feels like the show was trying to do something with her and Pink and that whole military theme but they failed on all three sides and this Clara wasn't as interesting as Oswin had been (and her reaction to the doctor regenerating in the first episode was the worst reaction the writers could ever give the one character who saw all the incarnations of the doctor, it was ridiculous).

When I want to finish something I usually turn to DIY :P I never sew or crochet as much as when NaNo is on and I get frustrated with my writing.

Your short story sounds very interesting. If you want a different pair of eyes for a fresh look I volunteer ^^

[frogs_of_war]

I took your advice and I'm trying to remember how to knit. I was never very good at it before, but I guess I can do a fairly good garter stitch and I'm making flower-shaped washcloths using short rows. My tension isn't perfect and I've been twisting my stitches, but I've made two and a half things and feeling better. (Aside from having to switch my day off)

I've been trying to write more during lunches at work. Let me get the bit I've already rewritten in and I'll see if it's worth sharing. But it does seem to be going smoother this time (and I given several different people reasons why they want to see Emirhan and Harun together).