Spring?

[ksmith]

Saw my first robin of the year a few days ago. Saw an entire flock today, gathered in a bare tree. They were a welcome sight...just wish they'd brought some dry weather with them, not to mention some *warmth*. Sunshine. The basics.

Another busy week at the day job. No clue where the year is going. Judging by the sense of passing time, it feels like we're still in January. No such luck.

I did have my annual review this week, and wonder of wonders, they still like me and want to keep paying me and all that. Things have improved with my new manager, who I really like. We're discussing adding some different responsibilities to the job that will allow me a break from the things I've been doing for the past--*yikes*--7 years or so. I hope we're able to work this out, because they are things I'd like to learn. They're also portable skills that could come in handy after I retire, so take my desire to learn them and multiply it by lots.

Still having fun with iTunes. Kept the buying to a single song, "Boom, Like That" by Mark Knopfler, but got a kick out of putting in one of my own CDs and having the track list show up in the display.

Yes, I am easily entertained--why do you ask?

Wrestling with the latest ENDGAME chapter. We are rapidly approaching a part I don't want to write, but it needs to get written. So...

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[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

There's also the fact that in this as in past books, there's a paralleling (I don't think that's a word) with certain things I've experienced that tends to make the writing difficult. Sometimes I see it coming, hence the reluctance. Sometimes I'm blindsided, and that's no fun either.

Been there, done that. I stopped writing on a work for an entire summer when I was reading a non-fiction work that I didn't think related to the behavior of a character in a continuing novel--but turned out to mirror the character entirely. This was right before I became sick and stopped writing, so I haven't gone back to the work.

But it was the proverbial 2x4 in the back of the head.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

But it was the proverbial 2x4 in the back of the head.

In ENDGAME, Jani is battling some of the same issues I'm grappling with now. And there's not a damned thing either of us can do about it.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

In ENDGAME, Jani is battling some of the same issues I'm grappling with now.

Urk. Hang in there. Maybe you will both find resolution.