Rag-tag, written over three days...

[byslantedlight]

Started Saturday... It's been a busy week or so since I posted last, so that I barely know where to begin, and to cap it all off I'm having a weekend at home and although I was supposed to be doing family tree stuff yesterday, cos I might go to Ireland in a couple of weeks, and I was supposed to be writing today, I keep getting distracted. For instance, every now and then when I was in a rush at work in Cambs., I saved stuff to Google Drive - and then forgot about it. It's actually quite interesting to find it again! There's fic by other people, and fic I've started to write, and family tree stuff, and... *g* So my post today is going to be very rag-tag

For instance - fear - windy - deviate - special. I found the start of a fic on GD, which I'm quite tempted to keep writing today, using what looks like a random-words-prompt. Thing is, I checked in my lj and couldn't find an entry for the date, or one before that which looks relevant, so where did I get the prompt from? Does anyone remember it? I know there are so few of us here now that the odds of it being someone who reads this are probably pretty low, but...?

Tried again on Sunday... Oh, and from the Hay-on-Wye Book Festival - yes, Colm Toibin thank you! thank you! It's not just me finding flashbacks hugely over-used, then...

I found some Dinah/Laura Pros fic on my GD - does anyone remember whether we decided they were the same person? The same stories seem to be archived under either name in different places. Good to re-read them, too.

I've also been re-reading Who Caught and Sang the Sun, and now Two on a Treasure Island, and I've got to say, quite enjoying them. Nice to believe in the things you write yourself... *g* I'd tweak things here and there, of course, but that's eternal!

And now it's Monday I have been so all-over-the-place so far this weekend, it's mad. And not in a travelling-exploring way, but in a can't-settle-to-anything way! But I have joined a second book group and an SF writers group, not found my four ancestors who were in Ireland on an Irish genealogy site, cleared various weeds and lots of brambles in my "garden", thought about where I might want to go in Ireland (suggestions welcome!), sorted my emails and GD a bit, and finally joined the Labour Party. So I have done stuff. And read my bookgroup book (The Garden of Evening Mists (for Thursday - nearly finished!) And some Pros fic.

Ooh, just found this:

How amazing a vid is that? The photographer has some other nice night vids too, worth a look! Oh, and I do miss living somewhere where you go out and night and look up, just in case...

You know, I think I'm just going to post this, and then start again later!

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I've certainly had weekends like that. All over the place, and nothing really done.

I don't remember the prompts, but that's not surprising. *g* Unless I'd actually chosen some, and obviously I wouldn't have in Pros, it's not something I would have kept.

But talking about fic, I have read a bit more of A Balcony and a View of the Sea. I like that she's added explanations for things that went unanswered in The Cook and the Warehouseman. But at the same time I'm finding that I'm not getting as engrossed, the way I did with Cook. Maybe because there are so many sex scenes at the beginning of the story (never thought I'd complain about that!)

And such a lovely vid! The lights make their way done to us every once in awhile, but so far it's always been cloudy when they do. It's cloudy quite often in Michigan. ;-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

My whole life seems to have been like this for the past dozen years or so! I swear I used to have so much more ability to focus on things!

and obviously I wouldn't have in Pros
Ooh, hang on - why obviously?! You almost sound as if you don't count yourself as a Pros fan? But... you are, right? I know you have other fandoms too, but - don't tell me you've never been a Pros fan?!

I'm finding that I'm not getting as engrossed
Actually that's not a bad description of the way I felt too. It's not that I didn't want to keep reading, or find out what was going to happen next, but I didn't feel quite the connection I did with TCatW, so yeah, not engrossed in the same way...

Isn't the aurora vid fab? I'd heard there was a bit solar storm, and that someone had even taken a photo of the aurora just slightly south of where I am now the night before, but a) I forgot to go out and check the skies before I went to bed, and b) I suspect they were cloudy anyway - and there was definitely rain around 3am, and I woke up to clouds etc. So it was nice to live vicariously through this vid - even if it was from the other hemisphere, even! *g* I guess I figured Michigan was probably too far south for them very often too - but how frustrating if they're there but hidden by clouds!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely a Pros fan! I meant that, not being a Pros writer, I wouldn't have given a lot of attention to prompts since I wouldn't be using them.

So it sounds as if the problem with clouds is universal. *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Love the vid, thank you.

And I so know that all over the place feeling!

How fabulous to discover stuff you've forgotten, especially fic. All I ever find is old to do lists. /o\ *g*

I hope your week is calmer, and you find plenty of time to do things for yourself - planning a trip to Ireland sounds wonderful. Here's to tracking down your hiding ancestors too.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hah - I throw out to-do lists, it's too depressing to see what hasn't been done... *g*

And thanks in general - happy this-week to you too!

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

I am relapsing into not getting things done, too. I was quite good for some time, and I do hope it will get better very soon, because the unfinished things pile up.

Great rereads! Good choice, I really, really like how the author writes my Lads. *hg*

Do you have limits to where to go in Ireland, like only the Westcoast, or just the South or will you be all over the place and flexible? I LOVED Ireland it is just so beautiful.

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

All over the place? Story of my life, there, I think! *g*

My fingers are crossed for the possible Ireland escapade, which sounds promising ...

I did read Cook-Warehouseman once, quite a while ago, and I have to admit it wasn't my cup of tea. I didn't feel that either of the lads were very strongly present ... just, not them enough to get me to engage with the world-building. Of course people's tastes and reactions differ hugely across the fandom, and I know a lot of people love it! In some ways I felt Balcony worked better as a coherent sci-fi AU, but it didn't grab me either - my tastes just run in another direction I suppose (I'm much happier with your Treasure Island, for example, in fact! :-)

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

I am so out of my headspace on lj at present that I couldn't remember a prompt like that if you paid me - although it sounds like one of the old, old ones when you and empty_mirrors were co-modding them.

See you've been archiving older stories on AO3, so I've been re-reading those, bit by bit. I do enjoy Who Caught and Sang the Sun particularly, though.

Ireland - for some reason, Belfast. It is a place that spoke to me, don't know why.