#fridayflash and Brigit's Flame. (How the heck do you get a community tagged as such using the html?)
Got that done and tried to post it; had too many technical difficulties and headed out for the Lytheria Halloween Party late and very frustrated. Talked with people and did music, which was good, though some stuff I wanted to do in honor of it being Halloween I normally do on autoharp and I had only the guitar--one instrument is enough to drag into a monster party, and I didn't have time to tune the autoharp before the party anyway. Did pretty well on those, though. Left feeling much less frustrated, to hurry back and re-read my entry to the Torn World contest, polish it, scan the art, and submit it.
And I couldn't find it anywhere. Not in this computer or the ancient one upstairs or on either USB drive. I found other stuff I'd wondered if I still had, but those words appear to be totally lost. Sigh.
So instead of starting NaNoWriMo, I rewrote the whole thing. (Why waste a perfectly good piece of art?) Still, it's not the same. Maybe better, maybe worse (most likely a bit of both), but not the same.
Hopefully, I redid it in time, though with the Daylight Savings Time change and the differences in time-zones, I'm not positive about that.
So now I'm reading on twitter people's 2000-3500 word NaNo brags and feeling frustrated. And tomorrow I have to take the girl to a meeting, which will tie up my time for probably several hours.
Sigh.
Then I turn to my e-mail and find other stuff to talk about. But it doesn't fit the theme of this post, so you'll have to wait for the next one!
Silly cape-making follies left me exhausted, and I hit the pillow early last night, slept a lot, woke for breakfast, and started falling asleep again. So I went back to bed. Woke feeling much better, and tackled the flash fiction piece I was doing for Got that done and tried to post it; had too many technical difficulties and headed out for the Lytheria Halloween Party late and very frustrated. Talked with people and did music, which was good, though some stuff I wanted to do in honor of it being Halloween I normally do on autoharp and I had only the guitar--one instrument is enough to drag into a monster party, and I didn't have time to tune the autoharp before the party anyway. Did pretty well on those, though. Left feeling much less frustrated, to hurry back and re-read my entry to the Torn World contest, polish it, scan the art, and submit it.
And I couldn't find it anywhere. Not in this computer or the ancient one upstairs or on either USB drive. I found other stuff I'd wondered if I still had, but those words appear to be totally lost. Sigh.
So instead of starting NaNoWriMo, I rewrote the whole thing. (Why waste a perfectly good piece of art?) Still, it's not the same. Maybe better, maybe worse (most likely a bit of both), but not the same.
Hopefully, I redid it in time, though with the Daylight Savings Time change and the differences in time-zones, I'm not positive about that.
So now I'm reading on twitter people's 2000-3500 word NaNo brags and feeling frustrated. And tomorrow I have to take the girl to a meeting, which will tie up my time for probably several hours.
Sigh.
Then I turn to my e-mail and find other stuff to talk about. But it doesn't fit the theme of this post, so you'll have to wait for the next one!
- Current Location:my life
- Current Mood:
frustrated
Comments
Glad to hear the Halloween party helped bring some peace. I haven't touched my guitar in at least a year. Part of it is shyness, I don't play well (really, I don't) and part is that it's connected to my past. I'm only now getting through some of those thoughts/feelings and am thinking I'll be able to pick it up and give it a go again soon.
At least the thing for Torn World was "design a landmark", so it wasn't like redoing a short story. More like revisiting worldbuilding.