Update 20/01
Jan. 20th, 2023 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedaceSomething that never seems to change is that, no matter how smoothly life in general is ticking along, every so often there will come a day where it feels like everything is falling over. Today is that day this month! Some late nights / early mornings and the switch back to working after the holiday has caught up with me, and I'm having some minor-but-unpleasant health issues, which are in turn highlighting how much I need to find a sustainable way to move my body around a bit more, and it's all just a big, tumbling pile of exactly the things that stress me out at exactly a moment where I need to be getting rid of tension, not adding more!
But! I did say, life in general is going well, and I want to remind myself of that fact, as well as the positives on this stressful day. It's my day off. It's a sunny day. I am on top of the dishes. I'm going to go out and write after lunch. I had writing ideas unplanned the other night. It's not so bad.
Film
The Decoy Bride (2011) has been on iPlayer for months and months; I finally watched it and it was a lot of fun - and exactly the level I needed on a sleepy evening. I also watched a bunch of short films by female filmmakers via BBC Introducing, which was a bit different from my usual fare. I've been having a look at lists of films that are coming out in 2023 to see if there are any worth getting excited about: I will probably watch Dune: Part Two and the Spiderverse sequel, because I really enjoyed both first installments; I'm kind of intrigued to see what they do with Barbie; and there's an Adam Driver sci-fi thing called 65 which looks interesting, if scary! I'm also considering breaking my soft "no Nicolas Cage" rule for Renfield!
Writing
I'm continuing to sound out a plot for my main project. I like to picture it as one of those timelapse videos of a sculptor at work: lots of roughing out vague shapes, and then coming back to them later and refining or moving them. I'm a bit wary of my tendency to over-refine the beginning before I have an idea of what will come later - need to get those rough shapes in place!
But! I did say, life in general is going well, and I want to remind myself of that fact, as well as the positives on this stressful day. It's my day off. It's a sunny day. I am on top of the dishes. I'm going to go out and write after lunch. I had writing ideas unplanned the other night. It's not so bad.
Film
The Decoy Bride (2011) has been on iPlayer for months and months; I finally watched it and it was a lot of fun - and exactly the level I needed on a sleepy evening. I also watched a bunch of short films by female filmmakers via BBC Introducing, which was a bit different from my usual fare. I've been having a look at lists of films that are coming out in 2023 to see if there are any worth getting excited about: I will probably watch Dune: Part Two and the Spiderverse sequel, because I really enjoyed both first installments; I'm kind of intrigued to see what they do with Barbie; and there's an Adam Driver sci-fi thing called 65 which looks interesting, if scary! I'm also considering breaking my soft "no Nicolas Cage" rule for Renfield!
Writing
I'm continuing to sound out a plot for my main project. I like to picture it as one of those timelapse videos of a sculptor at work: lots of roughing out vague shapes, and then coming back to them later and refining or moving them. I'm a bit wary of my tendency to over-refine the beginning before I have an idea of what will come later - need to get those rough shapes in place!
