![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Update 02/12 + Delicious Food of Gent
Dec. 2nd, 2022 11:54 amDecember already, and the end of the year accelerating towards us! I don't think I will ever stop being surprised by the continuing passage of time.
It's been a couple of weeks since I wrote here: one week of holiday, and one week of a horrible cold picked up from a friend I travelled with. (I'm still shaking off the tail end of the latter, booo.) We went to Ghent(/Gent/Gand), in Belgium, and had a fantastic few days ambling around and eating delicious food.
( Notes on what's great in Ghent under the cut... )
Writing
For perhaps obvious reasons I haven't thought much on writing for the last fortnight, but before I went away I was having fun playing with the revelation that maybe I need the main character to be more of an asshole. Playing with this parallel version of the story I've had in my head has been a lot of fun, and is opening up some new routes through the idea. I still need to find a reason for the two main characters to keep interacting, but I'm trying out some side characters and chance encounters at the moment which I think will help me out there. Heading out to my writing spot as soon as I've posted this!
Drawing
It was the penultimate session of my drawing class on Monday! These last two sessions are a single sustained pose with a life model, which is super interesting. I'm not sure whether I plan to get a finished drawing out of the final session (might be nice to have something "to show"?), but regardless, I'm going to have a good time with it.
Film
Today I'm going to watch It's a Wonderful Life for the first time! I know a lot of people consider this a Christmas classic, but I only heard of it as an adult (and then refused to watch it for a while because so many people were telling me I had to see it... I get stuck on my own stubbornness sometimes, it must be really annoying to be around). This year I actually saw a couple of clips from it (thanks to the trailer at the repertory cinema), and realised I would probably actually enjoy it! So here we go - I'm going to join in with the sincere Christmas joy at last.
It's been a couple of weeks since I wrote here: one week of holiday, and one week of a horrible cold picked up from a friend I travelled with. (I'm still shaking off the tail end of the latter, booo.) We went to Ghent(/Gent/Gand), in Belgium, and had a fantastic few days ambling around and eating delicious food.
( Notes on what's great in Ghent under the cut... )
Writing
For perhaps obvious reasons I haven't thought much on writing for the last fortnight, but before I went away I was having fun playing with the revelation that maybe I need the main character to be more of an asshole. Playing with this parallel version of the story I've had in my head has been a lot of fun, and is opening up some new routes through the idea. I still need to find a reason for the two main characters to keep interacting, but I'm trying out some side characters and chance encounters at the moment which I think will help me out there. Heading out to my writing spot as soon as I've posted this!
Drawing
It was the penultimate session of my drawing class on Monday! These last two sessions are a single sustained pose with a life model, which is super interesting. I'm not sure whether I plan to get a finished drawing out of the final session (might be nice to have something "to show"?), but regardless, I'm going to have a good time with it.
Film
Today I'm going to watch It's a Wonderful Life for the first time! I know a lot of people consider this a Christmas classic, but I only heard of it as an adult (and then refused to watch it for a while because so many people were telling me I had to see it... I get stuck on my own stubbornness sometimes, it must be really annoying to be around). This year I actually saw a couple of clips from it (thanks to the trailer at the repertory cinema), and realised I would probably actually enjoy it! So here we go - I'm going to join in with the sincere Christmas joy at last.
