Some Days are Frustrating...
Nov. 1st, 2009 03:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyld_dandelyonSilly cape-making follies left me exhausted, and I hit the pillow early last night, slept a lot, woke for breakfast, and started falling asleep again. So I went back to bed. Woke feeling much better, and tackled the flash fiction piece I was doing for #fridayflash and Brigit's Flame. (How the heck do you get a community tagged as such using the html?)
Got that done and tried to post it; had too many technical difficulties and headed out for the Lytheria Halloween Party late and very frustrated. Talked with people and did music, which was good, though some stuff I wanted to do in honor of it being Halloween I normally do on autoharp and I had only the guitar--one instrument is enough to drag into a monster party, and I didn't have time to tune the autoharp before the party anyway. Did pretty well on those, though. Left feeling much less frustrated, to hurry back and re-read my entry to the Torn World contest, polish it, scan the art, and submit it.
And I couldn't find it anywhere. Not in this computer or the ancient one upstairs or on either USB drive. I found other stuff I'd wondered if I still had, but those words appear to be totally lost. Sigh.
So instead of starting NaNoWriMo, I rewrote the whole thing. (Why waste a perfectly good piece of art?) Still, it's not the same. Maybe better, maybe worse (most likely a bit of both), but not the same.
Hopefully, I redid it in time, though with the Daylight Savings Time change and the differences in time-zones, I'm not positive about that.
So now I'm reading on twitter people's 2000-3500 word NaNo brags and feeling frustrated. And tomorrow I have to take the girl to a meeting, which will tie up my time for probably several hours.
Sigh.
Then I turn to my e-mail and find other stuff to talk about. But it doesn't fit the theme of this post, so you'll have to wait for the next one!
Got that done and tried to post it; had too many technical difficulties and headed out for the Lytheria Halloween Party late and very frustrated. Talked with people and did music, which was good, though some stuff I wanted to do in honor of it being Halloween I normally do on autoharp and I had only the guitar--one instrument is enough to drag into a monster party, and I didn't have time to tune the autoharp before the party anyway. Did pretty well on those, though. Left feeling much less frustrated, to hurry back and re-read my entry to the Torn World contest, polish it, scan the art, and submit it.
And I couldn't find it anywhere. Not in this computer or the ancient one upstairs or on either USB drive. I found other stuff I'd wondered if I still had, but those words appear to be totally lost. Sigh.
So instead of starting NaNoWriMo, I rewrote the whole thing. (Why waste a perfectly good piece of art?) Still, it's not the same. Maybe better, maybe worse (most likely a bit of both), but not the same.
Hopefully, I redid it in time, though with the Daylight Savings Time change and the differences in time-zones, I'm not positive about that.
So now I'm reading on twitter people's 2000-3500 word NaNo brags and feeling frustrated. And tomorrow I have to take the girl to a meeting, which will tie up my time for probably several hours.
Sigh.
Then I turn to my e-mail and find other stuff to talk about. But it doesn't fit the theme of this post, so you'll have to wait for the next one!
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Date: 2009-11-06 10:51 pm (UTC)Glad to hear the Halloween party helped bring some peace. I haven't touched my guitar in at least a year. Part of it is shyness, I don't play well (really, I don't) and part is that it's connected to my past. I'm only now getting through some of those thoughts/feelings and am thinking I'll be able to pick it up and give it a go again soon.
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Date: 2009-11-06 11:28 pm (UTC)At least the thing for Torn World was "design a landmark", so it wasn't like redoing a short story. More like revisiting worldbuilding.