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escritoireazulOh, Yuletide.
More than 2400 stories this year. That's a lot of fic. That's a lot of people writing stories to make other people happy. I think I'm finally in a holiday mood.
(Vin Diesel wrestling scene. That's a different type of mood. Humina.)
Anyway, because of finals, and a personal injury, and weather woe, I haven't been very excited about the holidays. It doesn't feel like the end of 2008, nor time to do the rituals I do at this time of year. I didn't feel joy, or the excitement of giving people things (even though I have some awesome gifts for people).
Yuletide, these past couple days, has changed that. I feel full of joy and excitement, and the rush of creativity and writing joy. I wrote five stories for Yuletide this year, three over 1000 words and two shorter ones. (If you guess which they are, I will give you a prize. Prize negotiable.)
(The soundtrack to this movie is kind of incredible.)
I've loved watching my flist talk about what they liked and didn't like about Yuletide. I've loved watching the story numbers go higher. I've loved looking at the prompts, the ones which inspired me to write and the ones which didn't. Mostly I've loved creating things. It's been a complete break from school, and it helped me in ways I didn't realize I needed.
(Man, I am going to have to write some fic for this movie. Littlest elf? Rodriguez? The kids being awesome? I wish I'd brought my copy with me, but all I brought was Rogue and The Ruins. I'm not actually sure who I wanted to show them to, but I brought them.)
More than 2400 stories this year. That's a lot of fic. That's a lot of people writing stories to make other people happy. I think I'm finally in a holiday mood.
(Vin Diesel wrestling scene. That's a different type of mood. Humina.)
Anyway, because of finals, and a personal injury, and weather woe, I haven't been very excited about the holidays. It doesn't feel like the end of 2008, nor time to do the rituals I do at this time of year. I didn't feel joy, or the excitement of giving people things (even though I have some awesome gifts for people).
Yuletide, these past couple days, has changed that. I feel full of joy and excitement, and the rush of creativity and writing joy. I wrote five stories for Yuletide this year, three over 1000 words and two shorter ones. (If you guess which they are, I will give you a prize. Prize negotiable.)
(The soundtrack to this movie is kind of incredible.)
I've loved watching my flist talk about what they liked and didn't like about Yuletide. I've loved watching the story numbers go higher. I've loved looking at the prompts, the ones which inspired me to write and the ones which didn't. Mostly I've loved creating things. It's been a complete break from school, and it helped me in ways I didn't realize I needed.
(Man, I am going to have to write some fic for this movie. Littlest elf? Rodriguez? The kids being awesome? I wish I'd brought my copy with me, but all I brought was Rogue and The Ruins. I'm not actually sure who I wanted to show them to, but I brought them.)
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Date: 2008-12-25 06:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-25 07:01 am (UTC)I'm really wishing I was at my apartment, because I'd love to be curled up in bed with my laptop and my wireless, waiting. My parents don't have wireless, and so I'm stuck in the living room where my computer connection lives.
I may have to go do some cooking now, so it won't interrupt my reading later.
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Date: 2008-12-25 07:03 am (UTC)My parents don't have wireless, and so I'm stuck in the living room where my computer connection lives.
That was me last year. And laptop+wireless is me this year. (Well, it's wired. But I'm in bed thinking, "I should be packing YULETIDE and I have these Christmas presents to wrap YULETIDE and I haven't finished my Christmas cards YULETIDE.)
Last year I baked quiche and muffins in between reading Yuletide stories.
YULETIDE.
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Date: 2008-12-25 07:05 am (UTC)That's pretty much my thought process, "I should sleep WHAT IF YULETIDE GOES LIVE and I'm doing the meat and cheese part of lunch IS YULETIDE LIVE YET and I need to clean up the wrapping area STORY TIME PLEASE."
I've given up on Christmas cards. Any I send are going to arrive in 2009, it looks like. Oh well.