fic exchanges and life (esp. the various ways it sucks)

[kennahijja]

Interesting post with lots of input on how to mod anonymous exchanges here. Which I forced myself to read through twice to try and work up a guilt complex for slacking on the fic of rock-bottom, seventh-hell doom... *Why* do I always feel the need to go to sleep *immediately* as soon as my mind strays into 'actually, you should write now' territory?

Granted, I should sleep more and am not feeling up to much today either after locking myself into the back office and crying for half an hour today over karaontai having to put to sleep a cat which I'd known since it was a teensy kitten 16 or so years ago :(. Damn, Sheila, I'll miss you - you were such a cuddly, uncomplicated furry bundle and I loved you dearly!

Somehow, things suck this month apart from *me* doing fine... There are those months, but it's time this one's over.

Writing-wise at least I have nine hours on a train in front of me next-next weekend, so I'll take laptop and do (hopefully) last minute writing and editing without disruption.
*crosses fingers*

Comments

[calanthe-fics.livejournal.com]

Holy crap - 9 hours on a train? That's some journey.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

There and back, which makes it a bit better ;).

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I end up in bits whenever I hear of a cat being pts, even a cat I've never known personally. (I'm much better with fictional cruelty to people.)

But come and meet a new cat that wouldn't be alive today if she hadn't wandered our way. Every time I weep for an unknown cat, I hug her.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

It's just... I knew she was ailing, and very elderly for a cat, but still, I watched her grow up and everything, and even with her being a continent away for almost ten years now it's different knowing they're around somewhere. I must have ten times as much photographs of her and her sister than I have of Kara, and she's my best friend.

It's a bit better now, but yesterday I just went to bits.

Every time I weep for an unknown cat, I hug her.
Me too with Hexe, at least mentally. That said, my parents are going on holiday next week, so Thea is moving over to their place to catsit :). They love each other dearly, so I'm looking forward to daily status reports by email :).

[hummelchen.livejournal.com]

Oh dear,
I´m soooo soorrrryyy to hear this bad news´! I give you a big long hug.
And yes, you´ll get a report, everyday I´ll have acces to the internet, I promise....and a big one on monday for the weekend.....

I´m more than curoius how her majesty will act to me tonight.......;-)

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

So sorry about your cat woe. They are the best friends.

And with unashamed selfishness I vote that you should sleep less and write more :-) What is the fic in question and why so doomy?

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

It's strange that I went to bits like that after not having seen Sheila for almost ten years since my best friend Kara went to the US... Still, I've known her ever since she (and her sister) were teensy kittens :(.

The fic... I think the problem is that it's the only exchange prompt I've ever been seriously unhappy with (not because I can't do it, but because it's what I've been doing forever, and way too close to what I've written just before). There's absolutely no thrill to it, and I just can't find the energy to write it, *grumbles*.

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Not knowing the prompt I don't know what to say. You can't work something novel into it, like Ron-performs-sexual-services-to-pay-a-life-debt-to-the-Malfoys-and-frustrates-Lucius's-evil-plans-by-polyjuicing-into-Kreacher-every-night?

No sorry, I have no useful suggestions. Good luck though!

[pasi.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry--it's difficult to lose a cat friend.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And you're so right, it's miserable :(.

OT

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Some time ago, we had some typically inconclusive exchanges about magic in fiction, real life, and Catholicism. This: http://superversive.livejournal.com/67317.html, is the best discussion I have read yet on the matter, and its author is the most intelligent and penetrating intellect I ever met on the Web. Word of warning: he is a Catholic convert. But I honestly think that the person who does not find this essay interesting must be dead in their mind. In spite of its enormous size, the only problem I have with it is that it is not long enough.