In spirit of ‘fess up Friday, I offer you something a little different today: five ‘fess ups (sorta). Only one of which has much to do with writing.
1) I’m a little burnt out on social media and technology lately, which somewhat explains my absence. I’ve been editing my manuscript on a hard copy and though I have stacks and stacks of pages that I need to input, I am loathe to open my computer these days. I spent May under the bombardment of emails that had to be answered now now now and subsequently ruined my day and my productivity. I have this irrational fear that the minute I open my computer there is going to be an email or text or something that needs my attention right now and I don’t want to deal. Which is why my line edits are piling up.
2) But hey, I have line edits! I’m officially about 40% through the manuscript. Some days I breeze through a few chapters, others I get totally stuck on one paragraph that just doesn’t feel right. That’s the totally unglamorous thing that no one ever tells you about writing (or revising): There will be days when you spend more than two hours thinking about a single sentence. Or is that just me?
3) Getting back to technology, I’m also suffering app fatigue. The problem is that for every one task that I want to accomplish on my smartphone there are at least three apps for it. I’m currently fighting the battle of the running apps. There’s one with GPS and an accelerometer for running on the treadmill, but doesn’t show splits or elevation. There’s the one that shows elevations but can’t be used on the treadmill. There’s the one that’s good for recording all training, not just running, but that doesn’t have any of the fancy GPS stuff. It’s enough to make me just want a paper training log.
4) Enough with the complaining. It’s summer and that means SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS!! Some time around May I start craving a good flick and this summer looks like it’s going to be full of them: X-Men First Class, Super 8, Captain America. This weekend, Hubs and I kicked off the blockbuster season with Thor. It didn’t disappoint. The love story seemed a little pastede on, but other than that it was a good, fun story. And ladies, it has teh pretty.
5) And finally, the mid-season finale of Doctor Who is this Saturday. I’m less excited about this than I should be. I’m just not loving this season as much as years past. It’s a little too LOST-like. And LOST didn’t work out so well for me until it was over. Too many questions, too few characters to really love. For me, it’s the characters that make the plot interesting (see also: Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, the better seasons of Buffy, Firefly). When the plot starts taking over to the point that I don’t care enough about the characters, then we’ve got trouble. Not that it’s not enjoyable, it’s just sort of like the summer blockbuster that’s all about the ‘splody. It’s a good, fun story, but it’s lost the heart that it had last season and the seasons before. It still has the pretty, though.
Happy Friday!
