Friday Rants and Raves - Special Saturday Edition

[sarillia]

Hey all! I skipped another couple weeks and felt bad so here's a post to rant and rave about whatever's on your mind a day late. What's going well and what's driving you crazy?

For today's picture, I feel like showing some more Remedios Varo. It's called Encounter.





Note: I may not get to respond to some of you until tomorrow morning depending on when you reply. I'm spending today and tonight at my girlfriend's place and I never bring my laptop because I get to see her so rarely. But I always try to respond to everyone who replies to these posts so I don't want it to look like I'm ignoring anyone.

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[sarillia]

Some of you may remember that I gave myself a challenge to write a short story every day for a year. That got derailed when school started up again for the first time in over a year for me. I forgot how much stress exacerbates my fatigue and that's not the only problem that comes with the beginning of school (bad past experiences+anxiety means I feel like doing nothing but sleeping and hiding from everything until I get used to things).

So I'm going to call that a test run and try again starting October 1st. Obviously I can't just keep going "oops, that didn't count, I'll start for real later" so I'm only letting myself do this once.

Still, I managed to keep it up for 37 days in a row and I'm pretty happy with that. I've gotten some stories I really love and want to revise from it too.

This is also the time of year when I start thinking about NaNoWriMo. Yes, I'm doing both these challenges. Adding several writing challenges together is a different kind of stress from the school thing so I think I can handle this. But I need to figure out what I want to write in November. I'm still at the stage where I'm getting really excited about an idea for a few days and then throwing it out before replacing it with a new one. I haven't hit on the one that I really want to do yet.