Here, then gone again

[amatara]

A short note, to say just two things, really.

#1 We bought the house. Zomg WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE. Well, technically speaking it's not a house yet, it's plans for a house that still needs to be built in a street that isn't there yet, but if all goes well, the actual house should be there by the end of 2011. Which is - still slightly stunning to contemplate. We're getting a house. Wow.

#2 After a lot of stressing out over Europe's airspace closure due to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupting and spewing ash all over, it finally seems like we'll be able to leave on our long-anticipated holiday tomorrow! *wipes sweat off face* Destination: South Africa! I'm not taking a computer, so it will be an internet-less holiday. I'm hoping to come back relaxed and with lots of fresh inspiration!

How are you all doing? I'm still pretty much swamped by RL stuff, so have been sucking not only at posting but at reading too. Is there anything big that I missed? 

Comments

[amatara.livejournal.com]

Wantss your Londo and G'Kar fic, yesss, precioussss.... *shiny eyes*

Two years for a fic: umm, it may be because I haven't been into it long enough, but that sounds - absolutely daunting. I usually start work on one thing, then go on till I finish it, and if that takes longer than, say, a few seeks, I start to get nervous. That Twin Peaks fic I wrote about in the other post has been gestating for a few months, which is longer than ever happened to me, and I was near despair it might never get finished! :) So - wow, I admire your patience. Do you finish most of what you start, or does part of it die a silent death along the way for whatever reason?

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Well, it's two years not of writing, but of saying "Oh, that's an interesting idea," and putting it into a folder, pulling it out every couple of weeks and glancing at it, bouncing ideas off friends, going and buying a few books on gardening (because the main character spends a lot of time gardening and I know nothing about it), deciding to actually TRY some gardening so I can reference things better, thinking about it some more, etc. :P I'm super-slow about certain things, it seems. Once I actually start writing something, like really typing on it, then it's "just keep going until it's done no matter what" for me. But I do have a tendency to put aside ideas for months or longer and just look at them and think about them a lot, and some do die out before I get to them, sadly. Others end up a lot stronger because I've taken a while to think about them, so it tends to balance out. :)

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