I’ve just had a debate with my mom about this article, which I think has great points, and which she thinks is hyperbolic. She would like it to be “How to get better at anything!” instead of “Six keys to being excellent at anything”, which is probably a fair distinction. Either way, I think the points espoused are very good ones. I particularly like #2 and #6 (#1 seems obvious). The problem with making costumes from ElfQuest is that basically they look like humans dressed up as elves. These two,…
things
Last night we went to the protest to protest police violence at protests. :) It was my first protest, and kinda fun, although one of their chants sounded suspiciously like “You scream? Ice cream!” We probably had more fun with that than we should’ve, but hey, simple minds, simple pleasures. :) (The chant was actually “Whose streets? Our streets!”) I failed to get up and write today, on the logic that since Ted’s home I can hand him the baby and get some work done. Really, though, I was just…
continuing with the busy
Yesterday turned out to be very busy. Not only did I get a lot of housework done and write 1700 words (!), I had to pop into town, so Mom met me and we went to look for high chairs. At Mothercare, they gave me a free flyer for a baby photo shoot, and Young Indiana was looking particularly adorable in a baseball outfit (the baseball outfits just *slay* me) so I thought what the hell. So we spent, I don’t know, half an hour, anyway, getting his picture taken,…
this is promising.
I got about 2/3rds of my words written this morning (takes a while to wake up and get the fiction cells firing, she said blearily), but that’s fairly promising. I can get another 350 done at some point during the day, and I can see already how this has the potential to re-shape my day greatly to the good. I can eat and do Pilates (not in that order) during the time I would normally be rushing for a shower, and shower during Indy’s nap instead of writing, and if…
simple != easy
My agent recently linked to a post by John Scalzi about finding the time to write. The gist of it is “Do or do not, there is no try”, and several people said “It’s not that simple.” John’s point is that it is, in fact, that simple, but that one should not confuse simple with easy. I feel like I’m finding a lot of simple things to be not particularly easy at the moment. There’s a whole lot I want to get done. Most of it is simple. Finish my…