writing and healing
Mar. 16th, 2021 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingToday while bored at Not the IRS (after my client left), I opened up an old file and wrote about 500 words of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," chapter 18.
This would be easier if I remembered more of my timeline details (and/or had emailed myself my timeline and outline files along with the chapter draft file), but even so. Progress!
I think part of the reason I'd been stuck for so long was that I got hung up on my own perfectionism and forgot that this story is, first and foremost, intended to be FUN. (I mean, along with the death and emotional trauma and horrible moral dilemmas and such. Those are also important.) It is about FOUND FAMILY and PEOPLE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING and occasional COOL NINJA FIGHTS.
So I have decided to just write and worry about fixing it up after the fact. Thus far, this plan seems to be working fairly well. :)
We'll see if I make any more progress before the end of my shift.
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In non-writing news, my hand and wrist continue to heal well, though the scar and the skin right around it is dry and intermittently VERY ITCHY. I am dabbing on lotion whenever I notice it feeling a bit tight or dry, and slathering the area in vaseline or an equivalent at night, to hold any moisture in. (This is not practical during the day, because the scar is, of course, on my hand and the greasiness would get EVERYWHERE. Alas!)
The scar should be quite narrow once fully healed, and the only really noticeable segment is the part where it happens to run along the exact path of one of my palm lines, so they're sort of reinforcing each other's slight dip.
This would be easier if I remembered more of my timeline details (and/or had emailed myself my timeline and outline files along with the chapter draft file), but even so. Progress!
I think part of the reason I'd been stuck for so long was that I got hung up on my own perfectionism and forgot that this story is, first and foremost, intended to be FUN. (I mean, along with the death and emotional trauma and horrible moral dilemmas and such. Those are also important.) It is about FOUND FAMILY and PEOPLE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING and occasional COOL NINJA FIGHTS.
So I have decided to just write and worry about fixing it up after the fact. Thus far, this plan seems to be working fairly well. :)
We'll see if I make any more progress before the end of my shift.
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In non-writing news, my hand and wrist continue to heal well, though the scar and the skin right around it is dry and intermittently VERY ITCHY. I am dabbing on lotion whenever I notice it feeling a bit tight or dry, and slathering the area in vaseline or an equivalent at night, to hold any moisture in. (This is not practical during the day, because the scar is, of course, on my hand and the greasiness would get EVERYWHERE. Alas!)
The scar should be quite narrow once fully healed, and the only really noticeable segment is the part where it happens to run along the exact path of one of my palm lines, so they're sort of reinforcing each other's slight dip.
