Irrational Exuberance

The Dementors departed last week and now the serpent is on the other end of the emotional roller coaster. The joys of being a yo yo serpent.
Been up since 5.30 since Friday is when a certain public speaking group meets at 7am. Normally would have slinked back to the Lair some time around 2-3pm but there was a Nano write in at the Fantastic Planet bookstore so the serpent could not resist meeting more strange masochistic creatures

Had one of the waitresses in the Dome cafe drooling over the gorgeous Bohemian Gothic cards. She was saying she had a reading done about her love life several years ago and it was uncannily accurate and now she is married to the second boyfriend mentioned in the cards. Was curious if Izzie could do readings too. Oh no we says. Never learned to do that. Using it for plotting and planning stories and told her about the nano nuttiness.
Now if Izzie was a chancer - would have obliged with a reading on the spot, spouted a whole load of BS that she might want to hear and then expect free coffees for half a year
But the serpent is not wise to the ways of wierd humans so best to keep away

The nano nuttiness started at 5pm. Had intended to stay until 6.30 before pottering off to the bus and to do gardening and stuff before topping up today's word count
In the end, figures that typing and gardening can be done any day but write ins are occasional and special events. So stayed until 8.30 or so and got about 8 scenes done (out of a total of 88)
So figured that it's time to catch up in journal land and then do one huge nano type up tomorrow evening

Had some seriously inspiring days down south. Decided it made more sense to write long hand whenever the muse wandered by and it was positively spinning and swirling down south - rather than to struggle typing with that elvish netbook
Got about 5,000 words out of the weekend's scribblings and figured that it's quite a good way to work. For some reason, plotting and planning and sitting in front of a screen never go that well together

Had a wonderful time down south once getting over the annoyance of missing out on the train yet again. It was broken down on Thursday so had to get the coach the whole way but at least this time it was two buses and 5 hours travel time and not the awful 3 buses and 6 hours like happened in 2008 and took two whole days to get over it (the dementors were lurking and lingering and just ready to pounce back then)

Oh bad bad Izzie has just been over at Baba store buying more evil tarot bags Such decadent gorgeousness. The nano deck lurks in one of those bags so we get to drool over the gorgeousness every day during November. And it really is an onion deck. It reveals itself slowly in delicious layers
Oh the joy of having froggies in the house that allows the serpent to have a stash of spare silver sickles for decadent indulgences

Noticed that one side effect of doing nanowrimo is a sudden ability to be decisive, get stuff done and leave manana until December (how do you get a tilde to sit on top of an n instead of only next to it?)

Looks like will need to leave specific details of the spookiness down south for another post
But found a crazy creepy cluttered place just perfect for dealing the deck of doom

Irrational Exuberance

The Dementors departed last week and now the serpent is on the other end of the emotional roller coaster. The joys of being a yo yo serpent.
Been up since 5.30 since Friday is when a certain public speaking group meets at 7am. Normally would have slinked back to the Lair some time around 2-3pm but there was a Nano write in at the Fantastic Planet bookstore so the serpent could not resist meeting more strange masochistic creatures

Had one of the waitresses in the Dome cafe drooling over the gorgeous Bohemian Gothic cards. She was saying she had a reading done about her love life several years ago and it was uncannily accurate and now she is married to the second boyfriend mentioned in the cards. Was curious if Izzie could do readings too. Oh no we says. Never learned to do that. Using it for plotting and planning stories and told her about the nano nuttiness.
Now if Izzie was a chancer - would have obliged with a reading on the spot, spouted a whole load of BS that she might want to hear and then expect free coffees for half a year
But the serpent is not wise to the ways of wierd humans so best to keep away

The nano nuttiness started at 5pm. Had intended to stay until 6.30 before pottering off to the bus and to do gardening and stuff before topping up today's word count
In the end, figures that typing and gardening can be done any day but write ins are occasional and special events. So stayed until 8.30 or so and got about 8 scenes done (out of a total of 88)
So figured that it's time to catch up in journal land and then do one huge nano type up tomorrow evening

Had some seriously inspiring days down south. Decided it made more sense to write long hand whenever the muse wandered by and it was positively spinning and swirling down south - rather than to struggle typing with that elvish netbook
Got about 5,000 words out of the weekend's scribblings and figured that it's quite a good way to work. For some reason, plotting and planning and sitting in front of a screen never go that well together

Had a wonderful time down south once getting over the annoyance of missing out on the train yet again. It was broken down on Thursday so had to get the coach the whole way but at least this time it was two buses and 5 hours travel time and not the awful 3 buses and 6 hours like happened in 2008 and took two whole days to get over it (the dementors were lurking and lingering and just ready to pounce back then)

Oh bad bad Izzie has just been over at Baba store buying more evil tarot bags Such decadent gorgeousness. The nano deck lurks in one of those bags so we get to drool over the gorgeousness every day during November. And it really is an onion deck. It reveals itself slowly in delicious layers
Oh the joy of having froggies in the house that allows the serpent to have a stash of spare silver sickles for decadent indulgences

Noticed that one side effect of doing nanowrimo is a sudden ability to be decisive, get stuff done and leave manana until December (how do you get a tilde to sit on top of an n instead of only next to it?)

Looks like will need to leave specific details of the spookiness down south for another post
But found a crazy creepy cluttered place just perfect for dealing the deck of doom