queenoftheskies

Feb. 10th, 2006

Morning, LJ'ers!!!

How's everybody doing this morning?

Everybody ready for the weekend?

Got anything big planned?

I'm VERY ready for the weekend. This has been a long and difficult week...as noted by the absence of postings and word count meters a couple of days. :)

I've even been too tired and brain dead to rant or whine on the particularly bad days. Though, a couple of days ago, I noted some troubling similarities in my emotions and my actions/lack of actions to last fall and winter (November 2004-January 2005), when bad things were going on.

That bothered me and I know I need to get myself out of this funk.

In some ways, though, it's better than active stress. I think it's just that there are so many bad things going on that I've just shut down emotionally. It makes me much less productive and makes me struggle just to get to the weekend where I can try to rest and recharge.

I guess it's some kind of emotional burn out. I overloaded.

Now, it's time to get better. Right? Right.

So, that's what this weekend is devoted to. Getting better.

I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!!!

Current Mood: burned out

Some days, it seems like the stupid people are everywhere.

Taking over the world.

Current Mood: frustrated

I always go out of my way to try to be nice to people. I figure, I could be the only friendly face they see today, cause we never know what kinds of problems other people carry with them.

Now, I admit that some people are really hard to be nice to, but I try to smile and have something decent to say anyway.

I do not let people see me get upset or pissed off or frustrated.

That's not how I am.

I might rant about it in my LJ, but I never show it in person.

Today, I am being called upon to go out of my way to do things for other people and really, really turn on the charm to try to get things done for certain people.

These people are not agreeable folks and have pissed people off (the people that could help them correct their problems, of course) at the other office...where wisdom for correcting problems comes from.

And, I just realized that it is taking every ounce of energy I possess to be charming and witty and smiley and good-natured today.

I'm not in a pissy mood or anything. I'm just not in any mood and would rather go off somewhere and sit in the middle of a big forest or at the beach or somewhere I can be away from people and commune with nature.

I think I need that recharge. That green energy.

A river would be really nice. A river with lots of trees on either side. And no people. Animals are okay. A spiral or a laptop for writing would be nice, too...but I need a new battery for my laptop, so it's chained to the AC adapter at home right now.

I was raised by trees and near lakes and rivers. Sometimes, I miss them more than at other times.

And, sometimes, a long ramble is good for what ails ya, you know?

Current Mood: rambling

Now that I've posted my goals for

olympic_writers over in the community, I think I shall consider them here.

My goals for the group are to finish plotting the following novels:

Pawns of Destiny
Devil May Care
Under the Desert Moon
Xanali
Wildfire

Complete the following novel:

Pawns of Destiny

The first three novels to be plotted are all romanticas and I've already put a lot of thought into them. Know the beginnings, middles, ends. Just need the details.

Xanali has the middle done already. needs the beginning (which is started) and the end. I have to determine a definite time period cut off for the ending.

Wildfire is a different case. The novel is complete, but skeletal at 200 pages. I'm going to go through and write out plot points as they appear now, then start making some shifts. There are parts of the novel that I want to be different from the screenplay it was taken from.

After that, and after the novel is rewritten, I will probably re-write the screenplay to match, if I like the results. So, actually, I'm plotting for two with that one.

As for finishing Pawns of Destiny, it'll probably only be around 60,000 words, maybe a bit less. I think I have 3,000-5,000 words on it already.

If I get my act back into gear, I should be able to get it finished up by the 26th.

IF.

Current Mood: hopeful

But, I'm watching The Day the Earth Stood Still on AMC, and couldn't sleep without seeing the end. I'm such a sucker for old sci-fi movies. I just love them.

20 more mintutes until sleep.

Kinda productive today.

Met one of my

olympic_writers goals. Finished plotting Pawns of Destiny.

Did a little writing.

More writing in earnest after I rest tomorrow.

Pawns of Destiny Plot Points

688 words today