it's like a train wreck, only fluffier

Oh, shit, I haven't been back here for a while, have I?

Must fix that.

Anyway, I have tonsillitis*, and have just submitted my entry for a one year workshop/writer-in-residence program - a sample short story, and a synopsis of my intended novel.

Feeling a bit loopy. Also starting to fret about my results. I'm stopping myself from looking at my entry again, because I know I'll spot a dozen mistakes.





* had a temperature, cough, sore throat and more pain/fatigue than usual for a week, was bricking it, then woke up one morning like "I KNOW THIS FEEL." Doctor confirmed my suspicions. Typical fucking me, managing to catch a different disease during a global pandemic.

 Neither my leather order nor my elastic order has arrived, so that's buggered up plans a bit.  *grumpity-grump-grump*  (The plan was to finish off 4-5 notebooks, go into town and post them and my cards, see if I can book a restaurant*, pick up groceries, and stay in tomorrow for Rington's and a Yodel delivery.  Now I will have to do restaurant, cards and groceries today, try to work post run around Rington's tomorrow, and set delivery for another day, which is inconvenient and also raises pain-levels as it involves two trips into town).

Best laid plans and all that.


* Parental units: "Oh, we're going to come up there on the 22nd, can you book a meal somewhere nice?"  Sure, sure, I can deffo get a booking on the Saturday before Christmas with less than a fortnight's notice.




ETA: found a place.  Lord only knows what the food's like, but I found a place.

Package finally got released from customs and, uhhhh... 




Russia Post r u okay?

I managed to complete NaNo, so woot! It took some doing though, and I ended up dropping off t'internet just so I could force it out. It was kinda funny, because last night a prompt I saw just hit me right in the id and I ended up writing an entire story that was over 1k and flowed. Typical me, can't do something when I'm supposed to.

Tomorrow will be spent sorting out and posting etsy orders. I was so tired today that I just did the stitching on a B6 - I had to get my hair cut this morning, which might not sound like a big deal, but I go to a training place so it involves sitting for a couple of hours and then aching like hell at the end of it. Also my kindle ran out of battery an hour in so I was like 'just meditate' (most of the new trainees would really rather you didn't talk to them while they're trying to concentrate, so they love that I bring a book).

Oh, almost forgot - I grabbed a burger in McD's because starving; one of the staff has workings from the Key of Solomon tattooed into her arms. I was like O_O because unexpected, also slightly bemused because spell-tattoos are a thing in my urban fantasy 'verse, and here's a chick in my nearby McD's with a spell for making invisible spirits visible tattooed on one wrist and one for raising ghosts on the other, plus more up her arms which I didn't get a good enough look at to recognise. She caught me staring, which was awkward, but hey, Necromancer with a day-job, I salute you.

I tore apart chapter one of my Little Mermaid thing yesterday, and got 1643 words in rewrites, but it was either that or another day with only double-digits of words. Having trouble pulling that one around to the plot-outline in my head.

Didn't sleep well. Thought it was because I'd had my SAD lamp on too late (lost track of time) but I'd forgotten to take one of my pills, worked out the problem and took it at 5 am, so I'm still woogy, and now I have to rearrange my entire goddamn medication timetable for today.

Need to concentrate on Etsy today, but hopefully I won't be too braindead to pick up the pace tonight. At least I've passed the 5k threshold at last.

Brain's too sparky to write, and also pain. I think I'm gonna have to call today off and just hope to pull up my wordcount later. Yesterday I managed 22 words across eight projects, and I think that burned me for today too, so I'm better off jettisoning.

I made a card for this month's allbingo, and I can see a few, although I'm going to hold myself to writing a scene rather than barrelling off (and then I can incorporate/expand the scenes later).

 I had grand plans for today and am generally failing at all of them.  Whoops.

As far as NaNo goes, I was all revved up for my planned project, and then I've woken up with my brain going: "Okay, but why not write this other idea I've just come with instead?"

Gnarg, hate it when this happens. 

One of the characters in my original 'verse is a swordsmith named Vivienne du Lac; she's the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend (don't get her started about Merlin, that asshole.)

Since the news broke about a second little girl pulling a sword out of a lake, every single person who's read those stories has sent me a message along the lines of: "tell Viv to keep trying, we'll crown one eventually!"; "come on, Viv, the heroine we need is out there!"; and "clearly Viv is done with this democracy bullshit."

I probably find this funnier than I should, but still. I'm tempted to use it as a prompt, tbh.

I've been awful about posting, but bleh. I'm sick, I can barely swallow, everything aches, I have a cough and the cough sets off my nerve malfunction, so yay for that. Also my etsy shop is busy (back to school rush still) so that's a thing I need to be doing while sick. It'll be dead by the time I'm better, because that's how these things roll.

I've made decent progress so far today though. And the Rington's van has been, so we're stocked up on tea and biscuits - I'm not sure if you have these kinds of vans elsewhere? Basically they turn up on an agreed schedule and you tell them what nice things you want, and they go get them off their van and you pay for them and now you have stuff. With Rington's it's tea and biccies, and maybe some hot chocolate, coffee, jam, and cake if you're that way inclined. We used to have loads when I was a kid, because the villages couldn't sustain certain shops on their own, so there'd be a shop in a van that drove around. When we were in Roos the Rington's van came on Monday mornings, the fish and chips van turned up on Tuesday evenings, and the tuck van (the mobile sweet shop) came on a Friday just as school was kicking out. I know there are a couple of banks that still have mobile units too; sometimes a branch of NatWest putters past when you're out on the moors.

Haven't been doing much crafting because that time has been taken up by notebooks. The writing is sort of, IDK. I can't write short, so I'm not exactly happy with the stuff for the 1000 words bingo. I'm also a bit confused, because I'm sure it says in the bumf that if you took a 3 x 3 grid you needed to do black-out, but lots of people seem to be posting single line? Hrrm.

Also I've gotten weirdly hooked on watching narrowboat vids on YouTube, initially thanks to my decision that a synthetic water-deity might subconsciously be drawn to man-made waterways, but my fascination has gone beyond that. So that's a thing now.



This one is pretty cool because Jasmine's filmed it in 360 degrees, so you can move the camera view around.

 Yeah, I didn't hit the deadline for bingo.

Also my Little Mermaid fill went a bit off track and I'm not sure I can pull it back to brief.  Oops.

Still gonna continue though, and post what I have whenever.

I'm getting good feedback on various snippets I've posted too. 

Feeling super woozy today.