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- You know, the more I look at this Hardmode draft, the more I think that I really could get ten thousand words out of it using only one POV character, the one who spends most of the fic in solitary confinement. Oh, Kain. :p I've been having trouble with the other POVs for this particular project, so I should probably see if I can actually do that, and then keep going.
(ETA: Comment thread about my idea. Going with the FFIV one that I wrote that rough draft for. Would love to brainstorm about this if anyone's interested.)
- I know that some people don't like anonymous writing memes, but I'm okay with them for the most part. I do sometimes wish I knew who made a given a request, though, so that I could tailor it to them. Especially if they ask for any pairing or any pairing involving a given character. What kind of pairing do they want? I'm always nervous about providing the wrong one.
(Of course, considering that this particular meme has been dead for a while anyway, I'm not sure they'll even see the story I'm trying to write. But that never stops me from thinking about it.)
- It always makes me a little sad when an old friend reappears, but then vanishes again. :( I'm sure there are good reasons (and my paranoia requires me to add that they are probably good reasons that don't necessarily involve me, personally, being offensive,) but I'm not going to press, and I'm not sure I'd know how to press if I did. I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
- Once again, I've been having trouble staying in shape. I'm slowly starting to lose weight again, but I've been backsliding lately, thanks to several days when I had way too much food and soda around at work and just didn't feel like exercising. I've gained thirty pounds in two years (I have no idea how that happened, it just crept up on me) and I keep telling myself I'm going to gain the other fifty back too, if I don't do something about this. This should motivate me - if nothing else it'll require me to buy a whole lot of new clothes just to continue to work, and I don't have that kind of money - but it's not doing as much as it should.
There are reasons, of course. I don't have as much free time as I used to. I don't walk like I used to; when I was at my thinnest, I didn't even have a car. And yes, my boyfriend is at least a small factor. I don't have nearly as much motivation to eat right and exercise when he won't come with me and can't eat half of what I cook that's healthy. I know I should just leave him to his own devices when he refuses these things, and find other things to do together, but that's easier said than done.
Honestly, though, most of it is just my mood, and me needing to do something about it. I mean, I know how much better I feel when I do exercise, so I should be doing that. At some point I need to get a new pedometer, one that won't fall off as soon as I slip and fall like the last one did, and take my boyfriend to my gym to see if he'll sign up so that we can go together. And we do need to go to a dietician, and not just for my sake. We need to figure out how we can plan our meals so that we both get what we need out of food. (Problem is, we need opposite things. I've tried to figure out how we can do it, but I'm at a loss.)
(ETA: Comment thread about my idea. Going with the FFIV one that I wrote that rough draft for. Would love to brainstorm about this if anyone's interested.)
- I know that some people don't like anonymous writing memes, but I'm okay with them for the most part. I do sometimes wish I knew who made a given a request, though, so that I could tailor it to them. Especially if they ask for any pairing or any pairing involving a given character. What kind of pairing do they want? I'm always nervous about providing the wrong one.
(Of course, considering that this particular meme has been dead for a while anyway, I'm not sure they'll even see the story I'm trying to write. But that never stops me from thinking about it.)
- It always makes me a little sad when an old friend reappears, but then vanishes again. :( I'm sure there are good reasons (and my paranoia requires me to add that they are probably good reasons that don't necessarily involve me, personally, being offensive,) but I'm not going to press, and I'm not sure I'd know how to press if I did. I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
- Once again, I've been having trouble staying in shape. I'm slowly starting to lose weight again, but I've been backsliding lately, thanks to several days when I had way too much food and soda around at work and just didn't feel like exercising. I've gained thirty pounds in two years (I have no idea how that happened, it just crept up on me) and I keep telling myself I'm going to gain the other fifty back too, if I don't do something about this. This should motivate me - if nothing else it'll require me to buy a whole lot of new clothes just to continue to work, and I don't have that kind of money - but it's not doing as much as it should.
There are reasons, of course. I don't have as much free time as I used to. I don't walk like I used to; when I was at my thinnest, I didn't even have a car. And yes, my boyfriend is at least a small factor. I don't have nearly as much motivation to eat right and exercise when he won't come with me and can't eat half of what I cook that's healthy. I know I should just leave him to his own devices when he refuses these things, and find other things to do together, but that's easier said than done.
Honestly, though, most of it is just my mood, and me needing to do something about it. I mean, I know how much better I feel when I do exercise, so I should be doing that. At some point I need to get a new pedometer, one that won't fall off as soon as I slip and fall like the last one did, and take my boyfriend to my gym to see if he'll sign up so that we can go together. And we do need to go to a dietician, and not just for my sake. We need to figure out how we can plan our meals so that we both get what we need out of food. (Problem is, we need opposite things. I've tried to figure out how we can do it, but I'm at a loss.)
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Date: 2011-04-05 01:25 pm (UTC)From:Good luck with the food issues. I remember it being a pain when we had different people who ate different things, and back then I wasn't even the one doing the cooking.
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Date: 2011-04-07 01:24 am (UTC)From:I don't think I have anything useful to contribute, so. Hugs.