Trying to plot my post-Season 2 Garcy fic and I just have to do it
“I really hate Time Travel”
– Eve Baird (The Librarians)
avoiding a paradox is headache-inducing.
SOLVED! 🙂
Ok so that is one fic planned, one to go…
(still had time travel btw)
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Trying to plot my post-Season 2 Garcy fic and I just have to do it
“I really hate Time Travel”
– Eve Baird (The Librarians)
avoiding a paradox is headache-inducing.
Just had a bit of a lightbulb realisation moment re: Painting Layers of Love and now I don’t know quite what to do.
It’s late so hopefully things will look better in the morning. I hope so because I made myself sad.
Ugh 11pm is much too late for these deep thoughts.
So I gave myself a new plot bunny
T – 5 (aka time to panic)
Can somebody please tell me how come there are only 5 DAYS left in October? Please? Seriously, I was chugging along and then bam, it’s like being hit by a 2 by 4. Little things slip but /shrug no big deal right? There’s time
And then suddenly there’s no time
Yesterday rather than do anything about this I did absolutely nothing instead, because losing an entire day is definitely the way to help *rolls eyes at self*
Before Thursday I need to:
– finish my series bible
– plan two more fics
– create a book bible for PLL
– outline PLL
My tutor will also email more homework at some point because rather than give it to us in class, she likes to surprise us mid-week/day before class. I also have a play I should have read (and haven’t) preferably before Monday’s lecture, but definitely before Tuesday’s seminar.
I would also like to:
– finish the Garcy fic I’ve left languishing half finished for weeks
– finish the formative assignment due for the 5th
Yet I refused to get out of bed this morning and it’s nearly noon and I haven’t started yet
Dammit self
Monstrare, Monere (A Warehouse 13 fic)
Synopsis: Monster, deriving from Latin, meaning ‘to demonstrate’ or ‘to warn’. They reveal, make evident, often uncomfortably so and thus was the case with Helena George Wells.
Notes: Look I finally wrote a thing for fanfic fridays! *dance* not anything on the list but hey words are words right? 🙂
So after watching the season 2 finale I was driven to put pen to paper before starting season 3. I’m spoiler free so I have no idea how accurate this is, I just had to write it down. Anyway, enjoy! 🙂
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End Note: I may do another because Myka talking Helena down the way she did *slow whistle* I may have to ship them. Could that have screamed lovers anymore than it did? Made me look back and think “hmm is that one of Myka’s shirts HG is wearing?” Or “that smirk means something” but I digress. I really can’t wait to find out what happens next. The one thing I ‘do’ know is that HG returns as I googled screaming as I didn’t want to say goodbye. I love her.
Fanfic Fridays
So I kinda didn’t make a deliberate post last week because I’d already whined about my executive dysfunction.
(Side note: I like that there is a term because it sums up in two words what I mean. On the other hand I hate using that term because it feels like an excuse. Like intellectually I know that I literally couldn’t do it even though I wanted to, but that little voice in the back of the head won’t shut up about being lazy).
Anyway, to be honest I nearly didn’t make a post this week because #same
There are 7 days in a week right? So how do they do this disappearing act thingy? Like thinking about the upcoming week and each day there seems to be a lot of them and then BAM, looking back I feel like I blinked and it’s Friday again.
I would love to say I don’t have the time but I totally do. This week was just a total loss in terms of getting anything done. I had an essay due in today and I submitted it with about 10 minutes to spare because I didn’t start writing it until 2 hours beforehand. What had I done all morning? Nada, zip, nothing.
It’s been that kind of week.
I want to write. I think about writing in every minute when it’s impossible for me to write. Then the moment I sit down TO write *crickets*
This is not the kind of status post I wanted to be writing. Honestly I was hoping to give some concrete progress. Like I outlined this story, and wrote x amount of words, and this chapter is drafted etc. etc. Yeah … nope.
Maybe next week.
You know I woke up this morning and realised that Friday is an all day thing. Today, it’s Friday – all day.
So *stares down at deadline* while I hate doing things last minute/day they are due, let’s see if I can pull the rabbit out of the hat and still do this thing!
Ok here’s a thing.
I’ve been pretty good this week (by my standards anyway) in terms of getting shit done. At the weekend I knocked off my to-do-list some stuff that had been there since before last christmas. On Monday I had class, and then that afternoon did the prep work for the class next Monday. Tuesday I did 2/3rds of the work for a formative essay due in end of next week. Wednesday was a bit of a wash as I had meetings and then today …
oh today
Today is Thursday and so it’s the end of the week (in terms of classes as I’m super fortunate this semester and don’t have anything scheduled on Friday) and I’m knackered.
Like it’s 5:15pm and I wish it was bedtime. I am so done with today. I have had enough of today-ing.
My problem is that at no point in my blitz of kinda-productivity this week did I finish that bloody Celeb/Fan AU I swore I would do for tomorrow. Don’t get me wrong I love that fic and I love Garcy and I want to write the thing. I am just really terrible at time management. The week has gone and yes ^^ I did things but I didn’t do enough things – clearly – as there is still more to do, and things left undone. Maybe I ordered the tasks wrong.
I don’t know whether to be pleased or mad at myself, and quite frankly I don’t have the energy for either. I think I’ll settle for disappointed and resolve to try harder in future 🙁
I have no idea what to do for @rumbellebigbang. Every idea I come up with either gets done by someone else, or is not something I’m ready to tackle right now.
I’ve been reading a book called ‘The Writer’s Mindset’ which is about all the Ahhhhh #writing is hard things that drive us insane.
There is a chapter called ‘My writing isn’t original’ which begins with the line “Every story has been written before.” And the antidote it offers to this worry is this
“YOUR thoughts have not been written before, and YOUR story has not been told before. YOU are the original aspect of creativity, and what you bring to the world will be different to what others bring, even on the same topic.”
It says that just because stories have similar aspects they are not the same. That this means “they will satisfy readers of this type of story” and that authors all bring their own original spin.
So TLDR it doesn’t matter if other people have done it, you will do it your way.