So that's what weekends are like
Apr. 28th, 2024 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonLet me tell you, it felt wonderful to sleep in two days in a row (well, at least until 8), even if we were prodded by cat paws to get up so kitties could be fed. A couple of days with no huge plans other than a bit of shopping and walking through the park was something I don't give myself nearly as often as I should. Even on my midweek days off, I'm usually up the same time A is so I can have a full day of catching up with writing and other things.
Speaking of writing, I'm at another chapter that seems to be slowing me down. I think it's that I'm not allowing myself to get into the heads of the characters featured in these new scenes, even though I want them to be there. I'm pretty sure it's because I don't really know enough about their jobs as military, even though I am purposely NOT playing their characters as the stereotypical hardass Adonises with ridiculous firepower. That's not the kind of characters they are -- they're your aunt and cousin and brother who signed up and are decidedly not the Lee Greenwood Patriot kind of soldier. It's not a military sf story, nor is it a space opera, like I keep saying. It just happens to have some of that as background and plot.
Aaaanyway. It's Sunday afternoon and I'm chilling in Spare Oom listening to tunes and doing my Sunday chores (laundry, blogging, and so on). Tomorrow is an early open, followed by three midshifts (OOF), but I'll live.
Speaking of writing, I'm at another chapter that seems to be slowing me down. I think it's that I'm not allowing myself to get into the heads of the characters featured in these new scenes, even though I want them to be there. I'm pretty sure it's because I don't really know enough about their jobs as military, even though I am purposely NOT playing their characters as the stereotypical hardass Adonises with ridiculous firepower. That's not the kind of characters they are -- they're your aunt and cousin and brother who signed up and are decidedly not the Lee Greenwood Patriot kind of soldier. It's not a military sf story, nor is it a space opera, like I keep saying. It just happens to have some of that as background and plot.
Aaaanyway. It's Sunday afternoon and I'm chilling in Spare Oom listening to tunes and doing my Sunday chores (laundry, blogging, and so on). Tomorrow is an early open, followed by three midshifts (OOF), but I'll live.
