Bookshelf pr0n...

I'm falling into bad habits and not posting again, and I told myself I'd do better! I'll see if I can find some more Pros-y snippets to post from the viewing notes - and I swear I'll try to write some more - but for now, a follow-up post to the post I made the other day. This is what I effectively designed the furnishing of my new place around... Bookshelves. *g*

Not just one, but three bookcases within reach of my bed... *g*...and an empty shelf left to fill! *g*

( My main non-fiction bookshelves... )

Work work work work-work-work (for god's sake...) - with added Pros! Ooh - suggest a theme, please!

So, I work from home now, in a place of my own, with my own desk in a big room with a kitchen right there, and when I get bored with sitting at my desk I have a couch (actually two, but one's taken up with my fiddle), a standy-uppy-desk-thingie, and a bed that I can sit on and work too. Brilliant, right? Yes - except that I'm fairly reluctant to sit in front of my computer proofreading other people's non-fiction writing for long stretches at a time. (So why do it? Well, there are good things about it too, and I don't hate it - I just find I'm reluctant to get on with it). I gather this isn't just me, it's a common problem with work-at-homers. I've tried all sorts of tactics, and today I'm going to try two things.

1. Keeping track on here (probably to shame myself into getting on with it... *g*)
2. Every 5 pages I stop and practice fiddle for five minutes and then write for five minutes.

Work might still take all day and night, but hopefully I'll get writing and fiddle practice done in snatches of five minutes each. Oh - I know! I should write Pros, shouldn't I - maybe you all will jump in and egg me on too (or maybe it'll just be annoying to see wee snatches of Prosfic appear, and you'll all ignore it until I get to the end, but in theory at least there'll be a story by the end of it...
Yes - that's what I'll do! And to save me flolloping about over one of my previous stories or whatever (if this works then I shall use it as a tactic to get on with them tomorrow and on other days!) - could someone please suggest a theme for a wee Pros fic that I write today? And when I say theme, I don't mean a plot (cos that's half the fun of writing), but for instance... "the lads are depressed", or "in hiding" or a single word that has to be turned into a fic, or summat like that. For instance, A Nice Day to be on the Canal came from the prompts mountain, Grimsby and the jitterbug.

Okay, now I just have to hope that there's someone out there so that I have something to look forward to after my first five pages of work (I have 60 pages to proofread today... that's 12 x 5 minutes of writing, which is an hour!) And if I'm working from now until midnight, then I should be able to fit two hours of writing and fiddle practice in without any bother, right? *crosses fingers and gets on with it*

( A cut for progress )

( A cut for the story )

The five minutes at a time Pros fic...

Yeay - had my first five minutes of writing as a reward for five pages of work! Tell me if it gets annoying if I post these bits separately... I do not get much written in five minutes though, do I?! Although I did cheat (*waves to milomaus*) and wrote a couple of other sentences so I could keep in mind where I think I'm going with this, which I haven't posted here...

Falling in love at a conference - birdsnest
The speaker droned on, as only speakers can. Bodie had heard it all before, dozens of times - felt like hundreds of times - and he let his gaze wander, keeping half an ear out for a change of subject. How the hell else were you going to enter a building full of armed men who wanted nothing better than to shoot you, anyway? What he really wondered was how many of the blokes around him didn’t have any idea of what to do yet, because if he was partnered with any of them when they got back to town, it would only be a matter of time before he had to cut them loose.

There - that tall drink of water he’d spotted on the way in, he was actually taking notes. And the bloke with the birds-nest hair, he was paying such close attention it was a wonder he hadn’t wandered up to the stage to sit beside the boring bloody ponce. He was almost in profile to Bodie, his eyes unwaveringly on the speaker, actually concentrating.

The five minutes at a time Pros fic - second five

But I started bloody hours ago! I should have done at least four of these by now! Oh well... I did cheated a bit with this last five minutes to make up for it. *g*

( Falling in love at a... continued )

The five minutes at a time Pros fic - third five

That's more like it...

( Birdsnest and falling... )

The five minutes at a time Pros fic - fourth five(-ish...)

Bit more... (ETA - ha! fourth five! Four-five... geddit...? *vbg*)

( Birdsnest and Bodie Part V... )