Reading, Watching, Writing
Oct. 18th, 2019 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedaceI want to get back to keeping track of what I've been reading and watching - what thought-fuel I've been feeding into my brain.
So, this week:
The Old Ways, Robert MacFarlane (unfinished). I have picked up this book from my tall pile of "things to read", but I haven't finished it yet. A slightly poetic kind of book about paths and walking and the following of trails. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender S03. A friend and I have been watching this in bits for a few months now - a rewatch for me, a first-time watch for them (although they'd seen the live-action film...). We watched four excellent episodes on Tuesday (featuring some of my favourite Zuko moments), and on Sunday we're going to see the four-part finale! We're thinking of moving on to Korra as our next regular show; that will be new to both of us.
NASA #AllWomanSpacewalk. I'm watching this one right now! The first spacewalk by two women is live on NASA TV this morning; Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are performing an EVA to replace a failed power controller on the ISS. Yay, space!
And, in terms of my own writing activities:
So, this week:
The Old Ways, Robert MacFarlane (unfinished). I have picked up this book from my tall pile of "things to read", but I haven't finished it yet. A slightly poetic kind of book about paths and walking and the following of trails. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender S03. A friend and I have been watching this in bits for a few months now - a rewatch for me, a first-time watch for them (although they'd seen the live-action film...). We watched four excellent episodes on Tuesday (featuring some of my favourite Zuko moments), and on Sunday we're going to see the four-part finale! We're thinking of moving on to Korra as our next regular show; that will be new to both of us.
NASA #AllWomanSpacewalk. I'm watching this one right now! The first spacewalk by two women is live on NASA TV this morning; Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are performing an EVA to replace a failed power controller on the ISS. Yay, space!
And, in terms of my own writing activities:
- Had a burst of inspiration last Saturday, and wrote five pages of scene for an ongoing fantasy project
- ...followed by a burst of frustration/upset on Sunday when I struggled to get words on the page the next morning
- Trying to practise not pushing and berating myself on the days where it's not easy and fun, while still giving myself opportunities to write
- Attending a fortnightly peer feedback group... only three of us really turning up regularly, and I don't think bringing writing for critique is something that helps me get words on the page at the moment, but I'm showing up and giving feedback anyway, because I'm keen to have face-to-face contact with other writers
- Hoping to meet up with a group of people in November whom I originally met through a creative writing evening class that I took at the end of 2017. The class was weird but a lot of fun, and my classmates were good fun. It's been a long time since we last met up, but again, I'm keen to get a bit more in the way of face-to-face writer interaction to help keep me from wallowing in my own writing woes.
