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Mar. 24th, 2014 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calissaThe clouds are starting to catch on the tops of the hills around here. There's mist on the slopes on certain mornings. Today was grey, with light rain coming down all afternoon. Unfortunately, it hasn't done the vegetable garden any good--you only have to dig down a centimetre or two and the dirt is bone dry. I think I am going to have to do some serious work on improving the soil over winter.
I feel more firmly on my feet this week. Last week's routine was rather disrupted but I was able to get back to it today and I feel like that has helped. This evening I also got a modicum of work done on the short story I have been working on. I have tentatively titled it A Roost to Call Home after a haiku ofraze's. I hope to get it done by 1 April in time to meet a writing group deadline, but I will need to push it. Sometimes it seems like the only way I can find any motivation is to have a deadline breathing down my neck.
Earlier this week, I bought my ticket to the Aurealis Awards which are being held on 5 April. I'm actually looking forward to it which surprises me. I'm usually shy and hate dressing up, so this is usually the sort of event that sends me screaming in the opposite direction. I think the fact that it is being held locally and the fact I will know people (organisers, nominees, judges, attendees) is helping. My dad is serving as the official photographer and will expect me to point people out and namedrop shamelessly--it's going to be a bit like playing a tour guide and I do enjoy doing that. Plus throughout the mess of my last editing job I had a lot of support from the industry who saw me as a professional and one of them... which has helped me feel ever so slightly like that might be true.
I shall leave you with one of my photos from today. The pin oaks are starting to get some red through.
I feel more firmly on my feet this week. Last week's routine was rather disrupted but I was able to get back to it today and I feel like that has helped. This evening I also got a modicum of work done on the short story I have been working on. I have tentatively titled it A Roost to Call Home after a haiku of
raze's. I hope to get it done by 1 April in time to meet a writing group deadline, but I will need to push it. Sometimes it seems like the only way I can find any motivation is to have a deadline breathing down my neck.Earlier this week, I bought my ticket to the Aurealis Awards which are being held on 5 April. I'm actually looking forward to it which surprises me. I'm usually shy and hate dressing up, so this is usually the sort of event that sends me screaming in the opposite direction. I think the fact that it is being held locally and the fact I will know people (organisers, nominees, judges, attendees) is helping. My dad is serving as the official photographer and will expect me to point people out and namedrop shamelessly--it's going to be a bit like playing a tour guide and I do enjoy doing that. Plus throughout the mess of my last editing job I had a lot of support from the industry who saw me as a professional and one of them... which has helped me feel ever so slightly like that might be true.
I shall leave you with one of my photos from today. The pin oaks are starting to get some red through.
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Date: 2014-03-24 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-25 12:30 am (UTC)The awards should be lovely, though I do hate the dressing up.
If all goes well, hopefully you won't have to wait too long to hear about the story. It is hard to overcome my usual tendency to write with glacial slowness. I guess that's what deadlines are for :)