elanya

Went and had sushi. I think I had a good mix of food - veggie tempura, beef negimaki, and two pieces of salmon sashimi (I think that is right, anyway). "t was good. See, I do like some japanese food, I just have to be in the right mood for the fishy stuff. And I still hate seaweed ;)

After that, we went to Christie's (a pub) for drink and chatter. I am also going to help Laura move tomorrow, so I should try to get to bed in good time tonight. Next on my list is to do some more studying. I'm trying to go through a course an night of notes, at least. I suspect I will put more effort into revising more seriously next week, but this is good for now.

I'd meant to bake those sinful looking brownies tonight and take some around to people tomorrow, however I want to make sure tsiankiio gets some, so I will wait until I know when I will see her. They are kind of expensive to make regularly, what with all the chocolate :x

Anyway, what else did I want to say? I got more done on Ice today. I have the rest of the story fairly well planned out in my head now as well. Not I just have to translate to words. I think it is going to be good! I may post the second bit I finished in MW too.

This has me thinking about writing. I write really slowly. There are a couple of reasons for this. First off, I'm a terribly slow (and poor) typist. Secondly, I generally visualize my scenes before I write them. I need to know the details so that I can properly describe things. I also need to go over every action several times to make sure that it makes sense. Why is someone doing something> Why didn't he turn on the lights> how drunk *is* he? How would he respond to this? What does he think is going on? Then I need to determine how much of this the reader needs to know in order to accept what I am telling them. And after that, I need to find the right way to phrase things in order to convey the scene the way I want it to be seen - in terms of pov, actions, atmosphere, etc. And then I have to wander off in the middle of sentences, or even mid thought, for no real apparent reason except that I am apparently incapable of resisting distraction. I will stop mid sentence to check LJ, check IRC, get up and walk once in a circle around my room, go play with my hamster, pee, get a rink of water, dance to a song or seven, whatever. The capacity to focus escapes me even when I am in a good writing mood and headspace. This displeases me but I'm not sure what i can do about it exactly, as it is not possible for me to remove distraction. Randomly deciding that I need to eat or do dishes is a distraction. Clipping split ends of my hair is a distraction, tidying my desk spontaneously, whatever, let alone the more engaging things like talking to people online or writing pointless lj posts. Bah. Maybe I should score me some ritalin ;) While writing *this* post, I have taken my hamster out to play in his ball, gone to the bathroom, gotten a drink of water, taken an antacid, checked lj and two separate e-mail accounts, and checked IRC for signs of life and talked at Mr. Cat.

Bah! What will I do if they ever give me a real job where they expect me to work all the time? :/

Well, that got derailed. But somewhere n there, you get an idea of how my mind works when I am trying to write something. And now, I am going to post the Story So Far, and go and study some more.