Fat Tuesday
Feb. 24th, 2009 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alliecat8Hi y'all!!!
Sigh...New Orleans is my favorite city, and I've been there many times, but in all my years I've never been there for Mardi Gras. I feel like getting in my car and just...going! Get my crazy ass to Bourbon Street and see what happens. Should I?
(if I went NOW, at 4:30...I'd be there at 8:30....)
Yeah, I'm almost that loony, but not quite.
In other news, writing is HARD. First drafts are HELL. But you know what's heaven? Being at the tearing-out-hair stage of writing, and your inbox makes that little bloop that means you have mail and you're all, like, YAY, I have an excuse to stop trying to write and banging my head on the wall, so you open your new mail and it's the most wonderful feedback to a story you wrote three years ago. Every now and then, somebody stumbles onto "Deeper" and has the grace and graciousness to comment, and it touches me so much it makes me cry. I wrote a story that lives on. And it makes me wonder if, since I did it once, could I ever do it again? Maybe? It makes it a little bit easier to go back and work on that dreaded and dreadful first draft again.
So back to work I go. I'm not coming back to LJ until the first draft is done. See ya on the other side.
Sigh...New Orleans is my favorite city, and I've been there many times, but in all my years I've never been there for Mardi Gras. I feel like getting in my car and just...going! Get my crazy ass to Bourbon Street and see what happens. Should I?
(if I went NOW, at 4:30...I'd be there at 8:30....)
Yeah, I'm almost that loony, but not quite.
In other news, writing is HARD. First drafts are HELL. But you know what's heaven? Being at the tearing-out-hair stage of writing, and your inbox makes that little bloop that means you have mail and you're all, like, YAY, I have an excuse to stop trying to write and banging my head on the wall, so you open your new mail and it's the most wonderful feedback to a story you wrote three years ago. Every now and then, somebody stumbles onto "Deeper" and has the grace and graciousness to comment, and it touches me so much it makes me cry. I wrote a story that lives on. And it makes me wonder if, since I did it once, could I ever do it again? Maybe? It makes it a little bit easier to go back and work on that dreaded and dreadful first draft again.
So back to work I go. I'm not coming back to LJ until the first draft is done. See ya on the other side.
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Date: 2009-02-24 11:44 pm (UTC)Next year you MUST come with me. I know New Orleans like the back of my hand.
Bourbon will never be the same!
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Date: 2009-02-25 01:49 am (UTC)Next year I WILL go with you. And I'll show you exactly how many Hurricanes I can chug before I get shitfaced and flash my boobs. (answer: a LOT)
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Date: 2009-02-25 03:46 am (UTC)And yay! I have a friend who's not a pansy! I'm so sick of being the one having to flash all the time for beads. We'll rack up next year!
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Date: 2009-02-26 09:00 pm (UTC)laissez le bon temps roulez!
Date: 2009-02-25 12:32 am (UTC)Re: laissez le bon temps roulez!
Date: 2009-02-25 01:51 am (UTC)So if I ever get you there for Mardi Gras, am I gonna have to leave you in the hotel room while I go out and raise hell?
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Date: 2009-02-25 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-25 01:52 am (UTC)4 hours away, I'd be so there!
glad you found back your draft, btw, I hate those scares. btw googledocs is the shit (although especially to work on stuff on more than one computer).
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Date: 2009-02-26 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-25 08:50 pm (UTC)First drafts are always hard, but keep at it!!! xx
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Date: 2009-02-26 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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