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the bit of colour
It is difficult to pick up the thread again, after so long without, but I am seeing how it goes.
Life continues apace, there was a very good holiday vacation with my children that I was reluctant to have end, and then school began again and I had various things to do with Girl Scouts and other events, plus some necessary but dreaded medical things to take care of -- but now the medical things are likely dealt with (and were not as unpleasant as I had feared), and Girl Scouts is down to its usual steady flow, and other school events have been handled, so I am looking around me trying to remember what it is I do with my time when I am neither engaged in family vacations nor making things happen for other people.
The answer, of course, is reading & thinking about books, and it is that latter that has nudged at me persistently to write here again. It is time for the 2020 Tournament of Books and I am finding myself less enthused than in past years; so many of the books seem to be so earnestly About Something and while the things they are About are often things that I feel it good for people to become informed about, I do not know that I necessarily want to read fictionalised versions of things that I am already at least somewhat aware of -- neither the new Atwood nor the new Valeria Luiselli intrigues me at all.
Along with thinking about books I have been reading fanfic again, and at last starting in the smallest steps to write some of my own -- none of it is ready to be posted yet, but there are several very short pieces I am working on and I would like to finish them before the next school vacation (in mid-February). It is ridiculous how terrifying it is, but I am trying not to let being terrified keep me from doing it, so -- we will see.
How are all of you?
Life continues apace, there was a very good holiday vacation with my children that I was reluctant to have end, and then school began again and I had various things to do with Girl Scouts and other events, plus some necessary but dreaded medical things to take care of -- but now the medical things are likely dealt with (and were not as unpleasant as I had feared), and Girl Scouts is down to its usual steady flow, and other school events have been handled, so I am looking around me trying to remember what it is I do with my time when I am neither engaged in family vacations nor making things happen for other people.
The answer, of course, is reading & thinking about books, and it is that latter that has nudged at me persistently to write here again. It is time for the 2020 Tournament of Books and I am finding myself less enthused than in past years; so many of the books seem to be so earnestly About Something and while the things they are About are often things that I feel it good for people to become informed about, I do not know that I necessarily want to read fictionalised versions of things that I am already at least somewhat aware of -- neither the new Atwood nor the new Valeria Luiselli intrigues me at all.
Along with thinking about books I have been reading fanfic again, and at last starting in the smallest steps to write some of my own -- none of it is ready to be posted yet, but there are several very short pieces I am working on and I would like to finish them before the next school vacation (in mid-February). It is ridiculous how terrifying it is, but I am trying not to let being terrified keep me from doing it, so -- we will see.
How are all of you?