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Feb. 9th, 2005 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaks1. Thanks to everyone who gave me film recs! I now have a huge giant happy list to go put on Netflix, and it is a very good thing.
2. I stopped cat-vacuuming* long enough to submit 'The Crying Queen' to Not One of Us. It's interesting-- I knew the story was done when I finished it, but I generally go over it again before I send it somewhere, just in case. Now I know it is not only merely done, but really, most sincerely done, for I hold, at the same time, two contradictory opinions about it, and they run as follows: a) this is brilliant and spectacular and the Best Thing Ever and all should worship at its feet and b) what a load of horrible, terrible, evil awfulness I should give up and go become a Tuvian throat-singer. Generally I alternate between these opinions about my writing anyhow, but I take as a Sign the emergence of the ability to hold both firmly and simultaneously about the same piece of work, and have decided that it is done and that is all there is to it. Mind you, these conflicting opinions are, absurdly enough, much more useful than the ones I have developed about 'Conte de Fee', which are a) gee, that really needs a new title and b) splunge.
* For those of you who may not have encountered the term (and there are several of you I'm pretty certain haven't), cat-vacuuming is the name for those little tasks that you spend all your time inventing to do instead of writing/studying/something productive. They may include cleaning, video games, politics, and Things People Do On The Internet, but do not include actual vacuuming of cats, no matter how tempting the little buggers make it.
2. I stopped cat-vacuuming* long enough to submit 'The Crying Queen' to Not One of Us. It's interesting-- I knew the story was done when I finished it, but I generally go over it again before I send it somewhere, just in case. Now I know it is not only merely done, but really, most sincerely done, for I hold, at the same time, two contradictory opinions about it, and they run as follows: a) this is brilliant and spectacular and the Best Thing Ever and all should worship at its feet and b) what a load of horrible, terrible, evil awfulness I should give up and go become a Tuvian throat-singer. Generally I alternate between these opinions about my writing anyhow, but I take as a Sign the emergence of the ability to hold both firmly and simultaneously about the same piece of work, and have decided that it is done and that is all there is to it. Mind you, these conflicting opinions are, absurdly enough, much more useful than the ones I have developed about 'Conte de Fee', which are a) gee, that really needs a new title and b) splunge.
* For those of you who may not have encountered the term (and there are several of you I'm pretty certain haven't), cat-vacuuming is the name for those little tasks that you spend all your time inventing to do instead of writing/studying/something productive. They may include cleaning, video games, politics, and Things People Do On The Internet, but do not include actual vacuuming of cats, no matter how tempting the little buggers make it.
