Here we are in 2015 and who knows how November will go. I'm not off to the best start yet, I will admit.I am writing this post with only ten minutes left to the first and I haven't started my nano yet. The earlier part of the day was spent in all the little stresses that happen when someone leaves on a big trip, such as my parents are for a few weeks. And after they left, I just felt this huge wash of lethargy come over me. As much as I love my parents, it's important to be alone every once in a while and I reveled in the feeling of being alone without any interruptions to anticipate. I watched some videos, made some food, read some stuff, basically did all that cantering self-care stuff. I felt a pang of guilt because I really should be writing but this was important too. I feel much better now than I have for months, with all the stress of running the volunteers for VCON in September and then stressing over grants and details for the West Coast Fan society in October, as well as elections. I can feel like I can breathe right now.
So, onto my plans for this month. Before October hit, I had pretty much decided to do a fic about the origins of the song "The Hanging Tree" from the Hunger Games series. The idea wouldn't let me alone and I'd promised myself that this October I would be a planner and write outlines and stuff. That didn't happen and I thought I'd get nothing done this year but a plot from a few years ago drifted into my mind and started gaining prominence. So now I'm pantsing it and hoping to write both a power rangers fic and a hunger games fc, whatever comes. Hedging my bets, I suppose.
Another thing I've decided to do is use the Plant Nanny app to motivate me to write. It was doing well as a water motivator before I hit a bad few days. Perhaps it will do better as a writing motivator. I was thinking every 200 words I'd give it a glass of water. Now I'm considering making it every 250. Either way. It has gotten no water on the first day and is probably not doing too well.
Anyway, more on life later.
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