two in one month?
Jun. 30th, 2013 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerI'm on my way home from North Carolina, but the timing of my ride to the airport meant I had five hours to kill here.
I was almost very lazy. There's free wifi here, and I was tempted to just watch Doctor Who on my tablet. But the wifi is slow -- slow enough that Netflix would play about five seconds of video, then stop to re-buffer. And so I thought, okay, it's a message from the gods, and they're saying: stop being so lazy!
Two hours later, I have a finished draft of the Penelope story, which I think was inspired by a passing comment in Diana Wynne Jones' Reflections. It doesn't have a title yet, but I wrote the entirety of it during this trip. Combine that with the 5K or so I wrote on "The Rose" during my first two weeks here, plus bits and pieces on some other things, and I'm reasonably pleased with myself: that's two short stories in one month! I haven't done that in ages. And during a month where I had very little spare energy or brain, to boot.
Now I think it's time to find some food. I only have an hour or so layover in Chicago, so assuming I'll have time to get dinner there strikes me as a very foolish move.
I was almost very lazy. There's free wifi here, and I was tempted to just watch Doctor Who on my tablet. But the wifi is slow -- slow enough that Netflix would play about five seconds of video, then stop to re-buffer. And so I thought, okay, it's a message from the gods, and they're saying: stop being so lazy!
Two hours later, I have a finished draft of the Penelope story, which I think was inspired by a passing comment in Diana Wynne Jones' Reflections. It doesn't have a title yet, but I wrote the entirety of it during this trip. Combine that with the 5K or so I wrote on "The Rose" during my first two weeks here, plus bits and pieces on some other things, and I'm reasonably pleased with myself: that's two short stories in one month! I haven't done that in ages. And during a month where I had very little spare energy or brain, to boot.
Now I think it's time to find some food. I only have an hour or so layover in Chicago, so assuming I'll have time to get dinner there strikes me as a very foolish move.
