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Weekend goal (aside from cleaning, laundry, attempting to get a reasonable amount of sleep, grocery shopping, and all that other stuff that's just a normal part of weekends now): complete a first draft of the attack story.
It's been living in my head ever since I started it, consuming all available unused resources in my brain. It's even displaced sudoku as my usual thing-that-creeps-into-my-dreams, which is in some ways a disincentive to finish it. I know how the story goes, I know how it ends, I know my characters like old friends. It's the style that's throwing me, and that is some tricky shit there. It's got to be beautiful in a nearly poetic way, almost baroque, and that's not at all my usual style. Worse, I've surrounded myself with people who are masters of that, like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kirizal, lenora_rose and of course matociquala. Y'all have to promise that if I get this story off the ground you won't laugh and point next time you see me at a con.
Right now, though, laundry. If you saw the pile waiting for me, you'd understand I'm not just procrastinating from getting into the words.
It's been living in my head ever since I started it, consuming all available unused resources in my brain. It's even displaced sudoku as my usual thing-that-creeps-into-my-dreams, which is in some ways a disincentive to finish it. I know how the story goes, I know how it ends, I know my characters like old friends. It's the style that's throwing me, and that is some tricky shit there. It's got to be beautiful in a nearly poetic way, almost baroque, and that's not at all my usual style. Worse, I've surrounded myself with people who are masters of that, like
kirizal, lenora_rose and of course matociquala. Y'all have to promise that if I get this story off the ground you won't laugh and point next time you see me at a con.Right now, though, laundry. If you saw the pile waiting for me, you'd understand I'm not just procrastinating from getting into the words.
