rolanni | Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

From various places around the f'list.

You are The Hermit

Prudence, Caution, Deliberation.

The Hermit points to all things hidden, such as knowledge and inspiration,hidden enemies. The illumination is from within, and retirement from participation in current events.

The Hermit is a card of introspection, analysis and, well, virginity. You do not desire to socialize; the card indicates, instead, a desire for peace and solitude. You prefer to take the time to think, organize, ruminate, take stock. There may be feelings of frustration and discontent but these feelings eventually lead to enlightenment, illumination, clarity.

The Hermit represents a wise, inspirational person, friend, teacher, therapist. This a person who can shine a light on things that were previously mysterious and confusing.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

The day-job continues to be exhausting and 'waaay too irritating. Things will improve once we're finally, totally moved back in. I hope. In the meantime, I wake up, I go to day-job, I come home, I write, I fall into bed. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. I expect I'll continue to be scarce hereabouts for a while yet.

Progress on Duainfey:

61,356 / 100,000
(61.4%)

If you see

kinzel today, tell him Hey.

Some small victories achieved at the dayjob. Body count, zero -- a victory in itself. Go, me. I think that things on that front would be Slightly Less Stressful if I wasn't on the downside of a book*. I am never Good With People when I'm writing full-out, which is what I would be doing at this stage in the proceedings if I, um, didn't have a dayjob interrupting me Every. Dern. Day. I accept that my timing sucks; I should have finished the book before life got complex again, but I didn't, and my reward is getting to go daily into a snarly, stress-laden situation bearing my own Super Giant Economy Size of Snarl.

Anyhow, after writing about 800 words in the wrong direction this evening -- for practice, I guess -- I felt relaxed enough to write 600 good words, and am therefore calling it a night. This is known as the fine art of quitting while you're ahead.

*By the "downside of the book," I mean that part of the book where I, the author, have stopped pushing the story uphill step-by-step-by-we're-never-gonna-hit-the-top; the story has crested and is on a runaway-no-brakes-hang-onto-your-hat charge down the other side of the mountain. Also sometimes called "reaching critical mass" -- i.e. that point at which there is enough stuff in the story -- description, dialog, world building, ideas -- that it starts breathing, moving, and thinking on its own.

Progress on Duainfey