Nope, not dead.
Apr. 4th, 2012 04:28 pmHIIIIIIII!!!!!
Yeah, so, right. I'm sorry. I *swear to you* that I didn't drop off the face of the earth on purpose. See, I've got really weak ankles and there was this cliff--!
In all actuality, I've been working my rather-well-rounded ass off. My company seems to think that "part-time" is for anyone and everyone who doesn't actually hit more than thirty-two hours a week. So they work me that much, and I have a nearly forty-five minute commute to and from. Negatives: I'm exhausted and so behind in my knitting/crocheting it isn't even funny. Positives: CRAFTY THINGIES! HEY, LOOK, I CAN HAS JOB! PAYCHECK!!!
I've signed up for BOB, in that I really really really want to write stuff! And, as so elegantly quoted by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tailoredshirt earlier today:
"The darkest lie we tell ourselves: that we and our writing are not worth a bag of microwaved diapers. Listen, I don’t know how talented or skilled or capable you are. Hell, maybe you’re not that great. But nobody got better by feeling bad about it. You have one of two choices: you can be destructive to yourself or constructive. You can tear yourself down or find a way to build yourself up — and I don’t mean build yourself up with compliments but build yourself up with skills and abilities and the practice that gets you there. You suck? That thought sucks. Get better. Improve. Aim big. Give yourself the chance to fail — and then give yourself a chance to build steps from the corpses of your failure so you may climb higher every time. You don’t become a writer by feeling sad about your self-worth. The only sucking you need to do is to suck it up and do the work. Everything else is a consumptive distraction."
Chuck Wendig
I want to improve! I want to get better! I want to not-waste the awesome restructuring critique thatloaded_march did for me some weeks back! I will put on my big-girl panties and I will ignore my exhaustion (as far as I am able) and I will by-god write my Kradam plot bunny!
I love you all, and read everything you write, even if I never comment these days. ♥♥♥
Yeah, so, right. I'm sorry. I *swear to you* that I didn't drop off the face of the earth on purpose. See, I've got really weak ankles and there was this cliff--!
In all actuality, I've been working my rather-well-rounded ass off. My company seems to think that "part-time" is for anyone and everyone who doesn't actually hit more than thirty-two hours a week. So they work me that much, and I have a nearly forty-five minute commute to and from. Negatives: I'm exhausted and so behind in my knitting/crocheting it isn't even funny. Positives: CRAFTY THINGIES! HEY, LOOK, I CAN HAS JOB! PAYCHECK!!!
I've signed up for BOB, in that I really really really want to write stuff! And, as so elegantly quoted by
tailoredshirt earlier today: "The darkest lie we tell ourselves: that we and our writing are not worth a bag of microwaved diapers. Listen, I don’t know how talented or skilled or capable you are. Hell, maybe you’re not that great. But nobody got better by feeling bad about it. You have one of two choices: you can be destructive to yourself or constructive. You can tear yourself down or find a way to build yourself up — and I don’t mean build yourself up with compliments but build yourself up with skills and abilities and the practice that gets you there. You suck? That thought sucks. Get better. Improve. Aim big. Give yourself the chance to fail — and then give yourself a chance to build steps from the corpses of your failure so you may climb higher every time. You don’t become a writer by feeling sad about your self-worth. The only sucking you need to do is to suck it up and do the work. Everything else is a consumptive distraction."
Chuck Wendig
I want to improve! I want to get better! I want to not-waste the awesome restructuring critique that
loaded_march did for me some weeks back! I will put on my big-girl panties and I will ignore my exhaustion (as far as I am able) and I will by-god write my Kradam plot bunny!I love you all, and read everything you write, even if I never comment these days. ♥♥♥
