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.

[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.

[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?

[pasi.livejournal.com]

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

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.