Year-End Clean-up and New Year Start-up
Jan. 3rd, 2005 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corilannamI'm finally feeling social again after hibernating for most of the holidays. I don't feel particularly rested, but I have renewed mental and creative energy, thanks in great part to yuletide writing and making a good start in reorganizational efforts at home.
So a few things to start the new year while I try to readjust to working a full day:
First and most happy, now that she's posted it, I can finally show off the beautiful and exciting Christmas present that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
destina gave to me and mboyd -- our very own Fire from Heaven story. It's called Out of the Pressing Crowd, and it's wonderful hot Alexander/Hephaistion, and it's here. Go, enjoy, leave her feedback, and then join me in marvelling at how lucky we long-starved Alexander/Hephaistion fans have gotten this year.
My main fannish New Year's Resolution this year is to be able to fill out the year-end writing meme in December without feeling embarrassment over how little I've actually accomplished. This means changing my current writing method, which is to flit from shiny project to shiny project without actually finishing anything unless under an imminent and inflexible deadline. Focus! It's all about focus! It will remain to be seen whether this has greater success than the last two years, when I resolved to finish one story every month. That one usually found me sometime in April or May, frowning and saying, "but drabbles count, right?"
Of course, I'm starting at a disadvantage, since my first project has to be getting my already written TPM zine story into some kind of readable shape. Imminent deadlines! Wheee!
But not so imminent that I didn't let myself get to read on the bus again this morning -- I finally got to start Long Way Round, which is enormously fun so far. There are definitely times when I want to know as little as possible about actors in their personal lives, but the more I see of Ewan just being Ewan, the more I adore him. If nothing else, the fact that he was reading Solzhenitsyn while traveling across Siberia would have won me forever.
I'm still seriously considering changing my LJ name to something boring but recognizable like corilannam. There was a time when I thought I'd use this journal for RL purposes as well, but since it's become almost entirely a fannish thing, it might as well be more obvious who I am. Then I can avoid the "oh, that's *you*?!" reaction I get every couple of weeks.
And I'll depart with one hypothetical question that I've been pondering -- does RPS become more moral, less moral, or equally as moral/immoral if you're slashing two gay porn stars?
So a few things to start the new year while I try to readjust to working a full day:
First and most happy, now that she's posted it, I can finally show off the beautiful and exciting Christmas present that
destina gave to me and mboyd -- our very own Fire from Heaven story. It's called Out of the Pressing Crowd, and it's wonderful hot Alexander/Hephaistion, and it's here. Go, enjoy, leave her feedback, and then join me in marvelling at how lucky we long-starved Alexander/Hephaistion fans have gotten this year.My main fannish New Year's Resolution this year is to be able to fill out the year-end writing meme in December without feeling embarrassment over how little I've actually accomplished. This means changing my current writing method, which is to flit from shiny project to shiny project without actually finishing anything unless under an imminent and inflexible deadline. Focus! It's all about focus! It will remain to be seen whether this has greater success than the last two years, when I resolved to finish one story every month. That one usually found me sometime in April or May, frowning and saying, "but drabbles count, right?"
Of course, I'm starting at a disadvantage, since my first project has to be getting my already written TPM zine story into some kind of readable shape. Imminent deadlines! Wheee!
But not so imminent that I didn't let myself get to read on the bus again this morning -- I finally got to start Long Way Round, which is enormously fun so far. There are definitely times when I want to know as little as possible about actors in their personal lives, but the more I see of Ewan just being Ewan, the more I adore him. If nothing else, the fact that he was reading Solzhenitsyn while traveling across Siberia would have won me forever.
I'm still seriously considering changing my LJ name to something boring but recognizable like corilannam. There was a time when I thought I'd use this journal for RL purposes as well, but since it's become almost entirely a fannish thing, it might as well be more obvious who I am. Then I can avoid the "oh, that's *you*?!" reaction I get every couple of weeks.
And I'll depart with one hypothetical question that I've been pondering -- does RPS become more moral, less moral, or equally as moral/immoral if you're slashing two gay porn stars?
