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May. 25th, 2011 07:53 amThink I am finally through the worst of this cold and well onto the way to health. I have been crocheting this cold away, which has been brilliant, and also given rise to some writing ideas! Yay me!
I bought a whole bunch of writing books last night at Adrian Bedford's suggestion, plus a couple of others I have wanted. Finally getting a copy of No Plot No Problem and Nick Mamasta's Starve Better, which should be an amusing read.
I have a co-conspirator! Yay! I have someone to write with again! Oh how I miss that! Anyway, that won't start until next week, though I shall do my stuff regardless. Had a good chat about what stops people from writing and what keeps people going and ways to keep yourself going last night. In my first attempt at a novel, my characters had a dinner party every time I ran out of plot and ideas. Boy did they have a lot of dinner parties LOL
Anyway, I have had yet more ideas for writing and stuff. I want to get back into reading again too, and have been sidling up to LSS again. I'm still not entirely sure what my method is. I seem to find it a small stumbling blocvk to log what I read. I am sure I have forgotten an anthology or two, but I haven't sat down to work it out. My gosh, what exactly do I do with my time LOL?
I was sick on a daycare day this week, which sucks as it's my thinking/processing/development time, as well as all the fiddly bits that gets blog posts done and decent and etc, bt these things happen. The other problem was I was going to be helping Mel at the school and it didn't eventuate. Ah well, later. Looks like I will be helping at breakfast club tomorrow morning again. The kids keep asking when we are going next!
So anyway, one of the things I did last night was read a few pages of this:
http://aspergersquare8.blogspot.com/
which is a really, really, fabulous blog by a woman with Aspergers. A lot of the things she says makes sense to me and has crystallised some thoughts I have had. When I was doing the baby forums, I joined a writer's group on there, and was dismayed to discover that the other five or six women writing were all working on peices about miscarriages, still births, or autism. And every one of the autism ones were depressing. OMG depressing.
Reading Bev's blog sort of made me realise that one of the reasons I didn't like any of the articles about autism and the spectrum stuff is that they were always from the parent's point of view, and they came bundled in with these whole piles of issues and assumptions and some of it I just didn't like. And that's OK, but... it's still interesting, and in a real life way, kind of depressing too. We all just have to do the best we can.
I have also been thinking about power and relationships. I have had some interesting ideas to play with the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, and just playing around. I am always fascinated by this sort of stuff though. I have so many projects I am excited about, it's kind of hard to be excited without telling the whole story!
Also: I hate Blinky Bill. I think it's an absolutely DREADFUL kids show, and would rather subject J to pretty much any other show under the sun when it's on. I hate the way the 'friends' interact with each other, the way the 'enemies' interact with each other, how all of them interact, the fact the main character is an absolute idiot and that this is somehow encouraged... GAH!
So, where was I up to...
It's payday today, so hoping we get paid LOL Prky and Tori are not coming to San Diego with me after all, so it's Carol and me at this point. Still hoping Alisa can make it, but not holding my breath. :-) I wonder if I can take crochet hooks on the plane. I have plastic ones after all.
Anyway, I have forgotten all the other deep stuff I was thinking about, so probably time to sign off! Gosh what a busy morning. Have made lunches, done cleaning, washed my hair, journalled, and now posted on DW/LJ. Soon I take V to school, and then J and I will be left staring at each other and wondering what we're supposed to do next...
:D
Have a great day!
I bought a whole bunch of writing books last night at Adrian Bedford's suggestion, plus a couple of others I have wanted. Finally getting a copy of No Plot No Problem and Nick Mamasta's Starve Better, which should be an amusing read.
I have a co-conspirator! Yay! I have someone to write with again! Oh how I miss that! Anyway, that won't start until next week, though I shall do my stuff regardless. Had a good chat about what stops people from writing and what keeps people going and ways to keep yourself going last night. In my first attempt at a novel, my characters had a dinner party every time I ran out of plot and ideas. Boy did they have a lot of dinner parties LOL
Anyway, I have had yet more ideas for writing and stuff. I want to get back into reading again too, and have been sidling up to LSS again. I'm still not entirely sure what my method is. I seem to find it a small stumbling blocvk to log what I read. I am sure I have forgotten an anthology or two, but I haven't sat down to work it out. My gosh, what exactly do I do with my time LOL?
I was sick on a daycare day this week, which sucks as it's my thinking/processing/development time, as well as all the fiddly bits that gets blog posts done and decent and etc, bt these things happen. The other problem was I was going to be helping Mel at the school and it didn't eventuate. Ah well, later. Looks like I will be helping at breakfast club tomorrow morning again. The kids keep asking when we are going next!
So anyway, one of the things I did last night was read a few pages of this:
http://aspergersquare8.blogspot.com/
which is a really, really, fabulous blog by a woman with Aspergers. A lot of the things she says makes sense to me and has crystallised some thoughts I have had. When I was doing the baby forums, I joined a writer's group on there, and was dismayed to discover that the other five or six women writing were all working on peices about miscarriages, still births, or autism. And every one of the autism ones were depressing. OMG depressing.
Reading Bev's blog sort of made me realise that one of the reasons I didn't like any of the articles about autism and the spectrum stuff is that they were always from the parent's point of view, and they came bundled in with these whole piles of issues and assumptions and some of it I just didn't like. And that's OK, but... it's still interesting, and in a real life way, kind of depressing too. We all just have to do the best we can.
I have also been thinking about power and relationships. I have had some interesting ideas to play with the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, and just playing around. I am always fascinated by this sort of stuff though. I have so many projects I am excited about, it's kind of hard to be excited without telling the whole story!
Also: I hate Blinky Bill. I think it's an absolutely DREADFUL kids show, and would rather subject J to pretty much any other show under the sun when it's on. I hate the way the 'friends' interact with each other, the way the 'enemies' interact with each other, how all of them interact, the fact the main character is an absolute idiot and that this is somehow encouraged... GAH!
So, where was I up to...
It's payday today, so hoping we get paid LOL Prky and Tori are not coming to San Diego with me after all, so it's Carol and me at this point. Still hoping Alisa can make it, but not holding my breath. :-) I wonder if I can take crochet hooks on the plane. I have plastic ones after all.
Anyway, I have forgotten all the other deep stuff I was thinking about, so probably time to sign off! Gosh what a busy morning. Have made lunches, done cleaning, washed my hair, journalled, and now posted on DW/LJ. Soon I take V to school, and then J and I will be left staring at each other and wondering what we're supposed to do next...
:D
Have a great day!
