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First off, we got a truck! My mom's been wanting a truck for some time since our little Ford truck - being a standard - was killing her knees with the clutch and is a little on the falling-apart side.
Ironically enough, while this is her truck, we ended up getting the one I kinda wanted ^^;. She wanted a small cab and big bed. I wanted a big cab since this it's the truck we'll be taking on our trip, and it turned out the small-bed truck was the cheapest. But it turned out to be all cool when the dealership threw in a bed extender. The people there were incredibly nice and helpful, especially in helping us get the payments down to something we could afford (and I'm well aware they were helpful on that front because they wanted to sell a truck. But, hey, we wanted a truck, so it was all good for both parties :D).
Second, we're going on a trip! A big honkin' trip that may very well end up being two-months long. I have two nieces in two states getting married, plus my mom wants to go see her sister, so we'll first be going to Washington state, then Utah, then Vegas if we're able (we have to be back by Oct. 9 to get our tags for the truck). We're also going to be taking one of the dogs and the two kittens for reasons, so that'll be interesting. But two things I really dislike about trips is, one, the dithering that always comes before, in which you want to go because you need to get out and need a change, but don't want to go because it means driving for hours and you don't want to leave your comfort zone. Plus that we'll be gone for two months isn't something I'm personally a fan of. Second, I hate surviving on fast food. After a while it tends to make me feel a little ill. But I presented the idea of taking a cooler full of sandwich stuff so that we didn't have to rely on fast food all the time, so hopefully - if we remember to do this - it'll make the trip more tolerable.
We're either leaving Thursday of this week if we're able or Monday of next week if we have to.
Third, and on a completely different note, I can now officially say that when it comes to writing, I suck at beginnings. The beginnings of my stories have the bad habit of dragging, because I have a hard time balancing what needs to be known with the pacing. But that's the bane of beginnings, isn't it? Because there's all this stuff that needs to be established, but go too fast and the story feels rushed and the reader doesn't feel as invested in both the plot and the characters. Go too slow, and people lose interest before things have a chance to get good. And as much as I would love to just jump into the action, it's not the kind of story where that's possible.
Still, I can't complain too much if the only major issue is the beginning of the story. Because the start of the story is a heck of a lot easier to rearrange than the entire plot, and my biggest fear with any story is issues with the story as a whole. I'm no good at doing rewrites, because while I always promise myself I'll rewrite a story, once I set that story aside even for a short time, I have the hardest time getting back into it (mostly because I've been distracted by another story with a shiny, more cooperative plot).
Ironically enough, while this is her truck, we ended up getting the one I kinda wanted ^^;. She wanted a small cab and big bed. I wanted a big cab since this it's the truck we'll be taking on our trip, and it turned out the small-bed truck was the cheapest. But it turned out to be all cool when the dealership threw in a bed extender. The people there were incredibly nice and helpful, especially in helping us get the payments down to something we could afford (and I'm well aware they were helpful on that front because they wanted to sell a truck. But, hey, we wanted a truck, so it was all good for both parties :D).
Second, we're going on a trip! A big honkin' trip that may very well end up being two-months long. I have two nieces in two states getting married, plus my mom wants to go see her sister, so we'll first be going to Washington state, then Utah, then Vegas if we're able (we have to be back by Oct. 9 to get our tags for the truck). We're also going to be taking one of the dogs and the two kittens for reasons, so that'll be interesting. But two things I really dislike about trips is, one, the dithering that always comes before, in which you want to go because you need to get out and need a change, but don't want to go because it means driving for hours and you don't want to leave your comfort zone. Plus that we'll be gone for two months isn't something I'm personally a fan of. Second, I hate surviving on fast food. After a while it tends to make me feel a little ill. But I presented the idea of taking a cooler full of sandwich stuff so that we didn't have to rely on fast food all the time, so hopefully - if we remember to do this - it'll make the trip more tolerable.
We're either leaving Thursday of this week if we're able or Monday of next week if we have to.
Third, and on a completely different note, I can now officially say that when it comes to writing, I suck at beginnings. The beginnings of my stories have the bad habit of dragging, because I have a hard time balancing what needs to be known with the pacing. But that's the bane of beginnings, isn't it? Because there's all this stuff that needs to be established, but go too fast and the story feels rushed and the reader doesn't feel as invested in both the plot and the characters. Go too slow, and people lose interest before things have a chance to get good. And as much as I would love to just jump into the action, it's not the kind of story where that's possible.
Still, I can't complain too much if the only major issue is the beginning of the story. Because the start of the story is a heck of a lot easier to rearrange than the entire plot, and my biggest fear with any story is issues with the story as a whole. I'm no good at doing rewrites, because while I always promise myself I'll rewrite a story, once I set that story aside even for a short time, I have the hardest time getting back into it (mostly because I've been distracted by another story with a shiny, more cooperative plot).
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Date: 2013-08-12 07:34 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-08-12 10:22 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-08-12 07:38 pm (UTC)From:I have read a lot of your SGA stuff and it is simply not the case. I have no idea about now as I do not read Merlin, but I KNOW for certain that was not true for SGA ff.
Also your Toy Maker same.
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Date: 2013-08-12 10:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-08-12 11:26 pm (UTC)From:Perhaps I misread your intent of your entry.
I remember being IMMEDIATELY drawn in as the Toy Maker began to unfold.......and the other one you did about a detective investigating a murder?
What ever happen to that? He is able to morph into a dragon at will which really interested me as you KNOW how much I loved your Sheppard dragon stories.
>;-)
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Date: 2013-08-13 02:32 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-08-12 11:14 pm (UTC)From:"HUGS"
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Date: 2013-08-13 02:30 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-08-13 02:56 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-08-13 06:29 am (UTC)From:I am fine with writing beginnings. I usually writing the ending roughly in advance, too, so I know where the story is going. The problem is that I run out of steam in the middle. I have soooooo many unfinished SGA stories with promising openings on my hard drive. I would really like to finish a couple but never seem to get them done before some new idea catches my interest. I'd have to check, but I think the last SGA story I got around to finishing was the "Flying With a Broken Wing" Wingfic AU that I wrote for you in a fic exchange and that was maybe a couple of years ago.
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Date: 2013-08-24 11:34 pm (UTC)From: