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alexandraerinThe Daily Report
So, we spent Saturday and Sunday in Staunton, as a gift from my parents. Saturday was also a posting day for Tales of MU. If I'd had a completely finished chapter on Friday, this wouldn't have been a problem, but what I had was about 1,800 words that I wasn't too happy with the shape of. That's not a terrible thing. Often the day before a chapter posts I have about that many words and a chapter that needs a stronger theme or better direction. I just use the posting day to sew them up differently. Doesn't always take long... if I have a solid idea, then it just takes an hour or two.
Some days, I just can't steal an hour or two. I'm still used to the idea that I can carve an extra few hours out of a day by getting up early or staying up late. I got up early Saturday morning but wasn't awake enough to get anything done, and then half-drowsed my way through the car trip. I did have a thunderbolt-like stroke of inspiration that's going to improve the chapter and inform the story in a very cool way while I was drowsing, but didn't get the chapter much closer to something I could post. Luckily I got enough rest in that way that I was able to enjoy Saturday in Staunton, where we had a nice dinner and did some window shopping and went to the Blackfriars Theater where we saw John Ford's Tis Pity She's An Instructor In Unarmed Combat Whore, but by the time we got back to the hotel I was too tired to mess with their wi-fi, which was working well enough to get pages up eventually but not well enough to write in Google Docs/Drive because the auto-save feature kept freezing the screen.
So I took it as a sign to just enjoy the weekend out and wait until I was back on solid ground, so to speak, to try to get anything done. On Sunday we caught a matinee performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, our main purpose for coming to town and the reason we'd needed a hotel. Both shows were done quite well, innovatively staged and incorporating music in creative ways. It was a good trip, briefly impeded but not marred by car troubles that were considerate enough to strike before we'd actually left town.
State of the Me
Little fatigued, but not too bad.
Plans For Today
The main thing for public consumption is that I'm going to be rewriting and finishing the chapter of Tales of MU for today.
So, we spent Saturday and Sunday in Staunton, as a gift from my parents. Saturday was also a posting day for Tales of MU. If I'd had a completely finished chapter on Friday, this wouldn't have been a problem, but what I had was about 1,800 words that I wasn't too happy with the shape of. That's not a terrible thing. Often the day before a chapter posts I have about that many words and a chapter that needs a stronger theme or better direction. I just use the posting day to sew them up differently. Doesn't always take long... if I have a solid idea, then it just takes an hour or two.
Some days, I just can't steal an hour or two. I'm still used to the idea that I can carve an extra few hours out of a day by getting up early or staying up late. I got up early Saturday morning but wasn't awake enough to get anything done, and then half-drowsed my way through the car trip. I did have a thunderbolt-like stroke of inspiration that's going to improve the chapter and inform the story in a very cool way while I was drowsing, but didn't get the chapter much closer to something I could post. Luckily I got enough rest in that way that I was able to enjoy Saturday in Staunton, where we had a nice dinner and did some window shopping and went to the Blackfriars Theater where we saw John Ford's Tis Pity She's A
So I took it as a sign to just enjoy the weekend out and wait until I was back on solid ground, so to speak, to try to get anything done. On Sunday we caught a matinee performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, our main purpose for coming to town and the reason we'd needed a hotel. Both shows were done quite well, innovatively staged and incorporating music in creative ways. It was a good trip, briefly impeded but not marred by car troubles that were considerate enough to strike before we'd actually left town.
State of the Me
Little fatigued, but not too bad.
Plans For Today
The main thing for public consumption is that I'm going to be rewriting and finishing the chapter of Tales of MU for today.