the.clocktower

So I'm totally trying to get back into the whole posting thing. We'll see how it goes. :D I'm pretty enthralled with this new service and it makes cross-posting so much easier and because I'm lazy (and on a mac, so no semagic for me) the need to crosspost just makes everything harder when it comes to writing posts in the first place. :P

Anyway, I hurt my back again this winter probably when I slipped on the ice and fell on the steps, so I've been going to a chiropractor after it got just that bad. It's interesting since the last time I had back problems I went the Ortho/Sports med route with lots of PT that I hated. This is easier and is working faster. He's a nice Russian dude who has a talent to find a topic of conversation that both of us can enjoy during the whole adjustment which is nice because I feel relaxed and comfortable while I'm there and since I hate doctors of all sorts this is a good thing. Still a little stiff, but it's getting better. :D

Fandom wise, I need to get back into a writing mood. I don't think it's going to be hard, but at the same time I need to be able to focus in order to write and I've been having massive focus issues for over a year now. Lots of watching new shows and stuff and the bunnies should be coming, but they aren't. Part of this not being able to write is why I've gone to knitting and photography as a creative outlet.

I should probably be studying for my exams, but part of me doesn't actually want to. I'm not too worried about them since neither of these particular teachers are the kind to fail anyone. So by tomorrow night I have to learn all about tires and shoes and bite marks and how they leave impressions. I'm even less worried about Anatomy since I've already taken Anatomy two/three times. :D

Hi! I exist! And I'm on Dreamwidth. :P I know I've been very quiet lately. Well, for the last year, but I am around. :D Same user name since I don't want to confuse people. XD I don't have a circle policy over there or whatever yet. I'm still playing around with the options. I'm not locking anything down (at least not yet, so I won't say that I'll never lock anything down) so don't worry if I don't "grant access" or something. The whole thing confuses me a lot, honestly. I like the concept and idea, but still don't know how to balance it all. LOL!

I might be making dreamwidth my main journal since I can follow people from there and crosspost and do all sorts of awesome things, but I haven't decided yet. There are certain things that I just can't do from there. So it's going to take time until I decide. :D

Anyway... what's been up with me? Or rather where have I been? ( A whole lot of nothing )

( Snarry Games! And other bits and pieces. )

So this morning I went with femmequixotic to visit spiderine who is packing up the apartment to move into a new shiny one. :D One of the highlights... laughing at omg horrible professionally published gay erotica. omg, dudes, omg. *dies just thinking about it*

Anyway, I came home and apparently needed to crash. Woke up hours later. I mean, I rarely sleep really hard especially during a nap, but I was out. I don't even know. Anyway, it took me about an hour and a half before my mind was functional again, so... yeah. I think I may have been just a little bit exhausted.

Decided to write, but didn't get very far because I needed a song. This is usually not the case, so my fics never have a full soundtrack to go with them, but on occasion, I do put a song on repeat that feels right even if the lyrics are totally wrong. I sorted by artist and hit Poe before I found what I was looking for. I hope. We'll see. It's taken hours. *shakes head at self*

*opens fic and starts working*

So my LJ extra icon feature went away and I promised myself that I wouldn't buy extra icon space. *sigh* I had to get rid of half my icons. It was very very sad. :(

Thankfully I have all the icons I really love already uploaded over here. I didn't think that it would be as bad as it was or that I actively used as many icons as do. Actively being a relative term because I'm not that active when it comes to journaling. *sheepish grin*

So lately I've been having thoughts about the writing process and my writing process specifically and what makes me want to write and when I hit a point when writing a fic that I just give up. I spent a good portion of dinner tonight talking with femmequixotic about it, and I sort of want to write a post about it and how googledocs has saved me when I didn't think that I'd ever actually like googledocs.

Suffice it to say that I've been writing a lot lately. My snarry_games fic is progressing nicely in that I'm working on structuring it just right for the type of fic it is. I have another Snarry percolating in the background for accioslash who won me in the sweet charity auction. And a couple kyou kara maou fics that I've been working on off and on. I totally had ulterior motives for pulling femmequixotic into the fandom. I'm so glad my plotting worked!

Also, snarry_games wise, I've completely recovered from the confusion of being a dragon on team phoenix. Team Phoenix FTW!

:D

So, besides school I've been writing on my merry_smutmas fic whenever I get a chance. I'm pretty sure that I'm about halfway done and the next few scenes are percolating in my head. I like it. It's different. I haven't written anything like it before. And that's all that anyone is going to find out about it except for my beta. *evil laugh*

Of course that only means something to the people that remember I used to write fanfiction a long time ago. *sighs* I have not been a writerly person in a long time. I've missed it, but other things totally took priority.

I'm enjoying Boston and don't know how I tolerated living in Florida as long as I did. The place was killing me in a way that's just hard to explain. I'm just happy that I'm not there anymore even if it did mean leaving my family behind.

Stories that do not behave themselves are evil. Evil I tell you. Though at least I am not stuck anymore. Though it's totally NOT what I expected to happen at all in any Way, shape, or form and I guess it'll just have to do. *le sigh*