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peridot_lines) wrote2006-10-28 05:11 pm
peridot_lines) wrote2006-10-28 05:11 pm
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Interesting weekend
The drive to and from Blackduck was worth it. Even though it was a high school production, Twelfth Night was done very well. The guy they had playing Feste could play the guitar, so they actually had him sing which was totally awesome considering I'll have the songs stuck in my head for the next week. If anyone has seen the Trever Nunn film, they used the music from that for the songs Feste sings. I probably annoyed my mother because I knew what was coming the whole time so I'd laugh before most of the other people there. I love Shakespeare, he had a rather dirty mind and used some of the most clever methods to convey that. Considering how conservative my high school is I'm surprised they let them get away with a lot of it, because they basically allowed the kid who played Malvolio to molest a statue on stage he just wasn't allowed to go for the breasts.
The drive back to school helped me to straighten out my trick or treat fic... except it's STILL not done, and I'm kind of starting to panic at this moment.
I remember when I signed up for this thing at the beginning of the month, and how freaked out I was. I was scared shitless, and last weekend when I posted the other story I was so anxious I thought I was going to be sick. That ended well enough to make me feel like I can at least handle this if I work at it. It's just I've had all this time to work on the story and after spending the better part of the month freaking about being signed up I hadn't gotten anything written. How is it that I could spend 3-4 days on one thing and post it, but I can't use a month's worth of time to my advantage? So, this ends up being me disappointed in myself I guess. And... I hate writing dialog, I don't like how it flows when I write it and I would rather do exposition any day. ALSO, Microsoft Word's spell check is the devil, because it's completely got me twisted up in the damned readability statistics and all of that stuff. I thought I picked a decent prompt (for me) and I have a decent idea of what I would be writing... but damn! How am I supposed to finish it? Because I've spent the last 6 days trying to find an end, and no end is in sight. *is frustrated*
The drive back to school helped me to straighten out my trick or treat fic... except it's STILL not done, and I'm kind of starting to panic at this moment.
I remember when I signed up for this thing at the beginning of the month, and how freaked out I was. I was scared shitless, and last weekend when I posted the other story I was so anxious I thought I was going to be sick. That ended well enough to make me feel like I can at least handle this if I work at it. It's just I've had all this time to work on the story and after spending the better part of the month freaking about being signed up I hadn't gotten anything written. How is it that I could spend 3-4 days on one thing and post it, but I can't use a month's worth of time to my advantage? So, this ends up being me disappointed in myself I guess. And... I hate writing dialog, I don't like how it flows when I write it and I would rather do exposition any day. ALSO, Microsoft Word's spell check is the devil, because it's completely got me twisted up in the damned readability statistics and all of that stuff. I thought I picked a decent prompt (for me) and I have a decent idea of what I would be writing... but damn! How am I supposed to finish it? Because I've spent the last 6 days trying to find an end, and no end is in sight. *is frustrated*