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actionreactionI kind of changed directions of something I was writing so I'm post a wee bit from yesterday's writing jag.
There's a pretty strong sense of accomplishment that comes from finally unpacking the last box after a move. I'm not exactly the best at seeing thing through to the end in a timely manner so it's not surprisingly that two years after I left my old college apartment, moved across state lines and settled into my new job as a publicity assistant at a major book publisher, I was only just emptying that last box.
Looking back, I really wished I'd done it all sooner, or at least started with that one.
The last box wasn't labeled like the others because it was just a bunch of miscellaneous junk that didn't fit in anywhere else, stuff I almost threw out several times. In fact if I'd listened to my ex, who kept saying if you don't miss what's in there, if you don't so much as think you need something from it in more than a year, you should just toss it. I finally tossed something after a year but it wasn't that box of junk. That bit of advice might have been good, but when it was coming from someone who was cheating on me while I was interning and pretty much scraping the barrel of jobs to get my foot in the door, I didn't really want to listen to it.
So I threw him out instead and held onto the box. Both decisions turned out to be the right ones.
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Date: 2013-01-25 08:16 pm (UTC)(I'm trying to get better on commenting on these)
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Date: 2013-01-25 08:39 pm (UTC)Also I think you might like the intended direction of this. The theme is "message in a bottle" and the guy finds an old letter from someone stuck in that box. He has to decipher who it's from and see where it all leads.
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Date: 2013-01-25 08:42 pm (UTC)That does sound like something that's up my alley!
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Date: 2013-01-25 08:51 pm (UTC)I know that feeling, not being able to do anything with words - reading, writing anything. I hope you snap out of it soon. It can be distressing for folks like us (by that I mean people who need to create)
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Date: 2013-01-25 08:57 pm (UTC)I hope I break out of it, too. I haven't written anything since the start of the year. It's killing me. I was finally able to pick up an actual book this last week, and it's been nice to be able to read. But this is the first I've read something that's not a magazine since the start of the year, too.
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Date: 2013-01-25 09:10 pm (UTC)That's one reason I like AO3 and Tumblr and even Facebook where you can leave kudos or ♥ or 'like' something - lets people know you read it, without having to really put it into words.
I'm glad you managed to do it! Sounds like you're working through it if you've managed that much so far!
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Date: 2013-01-25 09:20 pm (UTC)Working through it slowly. It took realizing that I wasn't doing it to do it. I was sort of sitting on the couch and suddenly realized "Hey. I haven't read a book since December. What the fuck." It took me about another week to sit down with a book and get myself to read a bit at a time. I'm working myself up to my normal speed and general getting-lostedness. (it's a word now) So I don't know WTF was going on, but hopefully it'll pass.
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Date: 2013-01-25 09:24 pm (UTC)Yeah here's hoping. That happens sometimes though. Usually for me it's when I've finished something and it affected me so strongly I can't shift gears and get into something different. Or when I try to stay in teh same vein and the new thing's being compared to the old and falling flat.
Getting-lostedness is totally a word.
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