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charameiI keep wondering why I'm still writing First Steps. Every time I get inspired for it I seem to end up derailed by more important things (essay deadlines, family stuff, you name it), and the stubborn need to finish the damn thing has been preventing me from concentrating on anything else. Original novels aside, there's a Four/Romana oneshot - probably not more than 4-5k when finished - that's sitting on my hard drive and dying to be finished...
And yet, I can't stop writing it. It's not dead, it's just been in a couple of nasty accidents.
And today, it squeezed my hand and said my name and hauled itself off life support once more, bless its soul.aleas_iacta was cringing about the burns scene before I wrote it, too, the poor dear...
Next up: another gorram corridor scene, albeit a short one. Then, dead babies.
(Mental note: find a way to get the word 'pustules' in somewhere when rewriting.)
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For my own future reference, the way to turn the NumPad back on when Ubuntu's inaccessibility* feature decides to be stupid is System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Mouse Keys -> Uncheck the magically self-checking box called 'Pointer can be controlled using the keypad'. NO IT BLOODY WELL CAN NOT.
*Whyyyyyyyyy do I have to have accessibility mode turned on to use the language switcher? I'm not blind, deaf, arthritic, or any other form of disability, I just want to write in Greek occasionally!
ETA: It occurs to me how appropriate this icon actually is tonight. Tomorrow may very well indeed be hell.
And yet, I can't stop writing it. It's not dead, it's just been in a couple of nasty accidents.
And today, it squeezed my hand and said my name and hauled itself off life support once more, bless its soul.
aleas_iacta was cringing about the burns scene before I wrote it, too, the poor dear...Next up: another gorram corridor scene, albeit a short one. Then, dead babies.
(Mental note: find a way to get the word 'pustules' in somewhere when rewriting.)
For my own future reference, the way to turn the NumPad back on when Ubuntu's inaccessibility* feature decides to be stupid is System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Mouse Keys -> Uncheck the magically self-checking box called 'Pointer can be controlled using the keypad'. NO IT BLOODY WELL CAN NOT.
*Whyyyyyyyyy do I have to have accessibility mode turned on to use the language switcher? I'm not blind, deaf, arthritic, or any other form of disability, I just want to write in Greek occasionally!
ETA: It occurs to me how appropriate this icon actually is tonight. Tomorrow may very well indeed be hell.