A two-day-post...

[wiseheart]

... because I was too tired to post yesterday, save for the birthday greeting. In fact, I'm still exhausted like hell. I always am after a balcony incident. It's just so frustrating that we can't get the dratted thing fixed!!!

In any case, I took Mum out yesterday. We went to the supermarket and the bank (which are in the same shopping centre), and then had a coffee from the automated coffee machine there. She enjoyed her first outing in a month or more greatly, although her knee hurts a great deal more now. Yeah, we should get out more often before the second wave of the pandemic hits Hungary, but after her fall three weeks ago she was glad she could trot around the flat with a walking aid for a while.

The extreme heat and then the thunderstorm two nights ago drained my strength considerably. I did some prefunctionary cooking, but that was all until this morning. This morning, inspiration suddenly hit, and I finished the first chapter and started the second chapter of the sequel to A Matter of Time, which is a Star Trek Enterprise/Torchwood fusion. The sequel is titled "A Stitch in Time", and will eventually feature Zoe Heriot and the space station where she lives, them being also 22nd century characters, only from a different 'verse.

It is a bit inconvenient that I am unable to work on one story exclusively for very long. After a while I start approaching burnout, have to put the story aside and work on a different one. Of course, if I could write something short from time to time, not just 20+-chapter monstrosities, this problem wouldn't even exist, but we cannot order the muses to work in a way that would be convenient for us. Or, well, we could, but they'd just keep ignoring us and doing what they want. *sigh*

Still, I'm quite pleased with the amount and quality of stuff I wrote today. I just wish I weren't so utterly exhausted all the time. At my advanced age, sleeping a regular 7-71/2 hours a day ought to be enough, right?

On a more positive note, I had two very nice phone chats with two lovely (ex)colleagues, Evie and Elise, which always makes my day.

Comments

[meathiel]

The weather is so draining, I'm not surprised you are exhausted.
Same for me, even when I sleep well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That, and this year's particularly harsh sunlight is a killer on the eyes.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Glad you had some good chats.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I understand the burn out thing. Finding Frodo will run to twenty one chapters when finished...I think (It was originally twenty)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Talking to my girls always makes my day.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I wish I had someone to talk to about writing. Back in the pre-internet days I had this friend who read my stuff (I wrote original fantasy in Hungarian then) and I read hers, and we'd discuss plot elements, characterization and suchlike. Alas, we drifted apart decades ago. When I got onto the internet, I hoped I'd meet such people again, but no luck at all. Considering for how many fandoms I'm writing, one would think I'd find at least some people to talk to, but one would be wrong, obviously. *sigh*

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Always nice when inspiration hits :0) Weather has been a pain here also. Hurricane Laura targeted the SW coast of Louisiana and devastated it with 150 MPH winds. We were on the outskirts of the hurricane force wind cone but in the one for tropical wind. The yard is a mess of branches and stuff. No trees down, TG! It was scary though, our area had 6-7 tornado warnings going on at the same time as the first bands of the hurricane appeared on radar. Tis' the season for storms, the worst months being August and September, just hope that is the last one for us.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You do live in a dangerous place weather-wise, don't you?