Monday Morning Post

Okay, so I'm sneaking this post in just before I sneak off to a quick break for some more caffeine and sanity. It's been a BUSY morning here on the 18th floor. Woohoo!

So yeah--got the hours switched a skooch--now coming in for 7:30am and leaving at 4pm, to adjust to morning email duties. Fun fun, and for the most part I can deal, but I was heavily backed up for awhile there...

More later!

I can haz nap nao?

*whew*

Wow. What a long day...I can deal with the half-hour change in my work hours, but fitful sleep + long day + emails from hell = ZZZZ.

Of course, this means that about an hour after I get home, I'll be wide awake and relaxed, and (hopefully) getting a good chunk of wwriting work done.

I will say that eating the tasty grapes we picked up at the farmer's market outside of Half Moon Bay is helping, as is the fact that I'm leaving in a half hour from now. :)

[Writing] Question to the Masses...

Just thought of this while playing around with the Chapter 2 outline for the New Project:

Would it be considered a Mary Sue if I based settings and character setups on real people and places (with a little bit of myself thrown in), but more for inspiration than Mary Sue-ing?

Thing is, two of the characters are brother and sister and have two older siblings--Kati is the youngest, Tim the next oldest, and two as-yet-unnamed older brothers, the gender opposite of my family. Added to the fact that the house they grew up in, while definitely not an exact blueprint, bears a few similarities (color, age, surroundings, etc.) to the one I grew up in, changed just enough to protect privacy, of course. And while I do see some of myself in both of these characters, I'm constantly making them do and think things I wouldn't automatically think of doing.

Anyway, my point is that I'm not doing a Mary Sue, at least not consciously...but I'm curious as to what others might think on the subject? What's the line between inspiration and outright putting myself in the book?