20,000 words in two days.
15 years ago
Journal Entry Can I do it?
I'm justunder 20,000 words over 3600 words away from staying on track and finishing this month's monthly goal of 30,000 words written in my stories for the month. There are precisely 47 hours and 9 minutes 21 hours and 40 minutes left in the month as of the time I typed that countdown.
By no means am I expecting to reach that goal, but I refuse to give up. I will use these final hours to write as much as I possibly can and see what my determination will bring me. That would be 10 hours of writing if I'm writing a zippy 2,000 words an hour. I don't give up, I conquer things.
If I can draw 11 drawings in that time as well, it would be nothing short of phenomenal. Certainly not banking on that.
And no, I haven't gotten any better as far as "getting better" goes. It's been worse. But I'll tell you one thing: dealing with people is not helpful to me right now. I'm sorry if you miss me or whatever, but this is something that I have to deal with on my own. I often feel like if I don't get better from day to day, I disappoint people or let down their expectations. I've done that before. It's a wound that still stings. I will only pop back periodically and when I feel like it, but please, don't expect a positive outlook from me if I am on. I'll probably just do what I do best and fake a smile or whatever.
Sorry. Wish me luck.
Update 3/30: wrote a staggering 15,504 words today on Starting in the Lab - Hoenn. SitL - Hoenn is going to be M/M and/or M/M/M, but it is going to be surprisingly emotional and I'm actually kind of pleased with the characters in this. They're all very distinct and there's a lot more of a plot than either of the first two. There's also probably going to be 3 chapters because I would rather have written one story occupying those 20k words than 2 or 3. And SitL - Hoenn is relatively easy comparatively.
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If I can draw 11 drawings in that time as well, it would be nothing short of phenomenal. Certainly not banking on that.
And no, I haven't gotten any better as far as "getting better" goes. It's been worse. But I'll tell you one thing: dealing with people is not helpful to me right now. I'm sorry if you miss me or whatever, but this is something that I have to deal with on my own. I often feel like if I don't get better from day to day, I disappoint people or let down their expectations. I've done that before. It's a wound that still stings. I will only pop back periodically and when I feel like it, but please, don't expect a positive outlook from me if I am on. I'll probably just do what I do best and fake a smile or whatever.
Sorry. Wish me luck.
Update 3/30: wrote a staggering 15,504 words today on Starting in the Lab - Hoenn. SitL - Hoenn is going to be M/M and/or M/M/M, but it is going to be surprisingly emotional and I'm actually kind of pleased with the characters in this. They're all very distinct and there's a lot more of a plot than either of the first two. There's also probably going to be 3 chapters because I would rather have written one story occupying those 20k words than 2 or 3. And SitL - Hoenn is relatively easy comparatively.
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Good luck with meeting your writing goal, indeed.
But don't burn yourself out! Writing and drawing should be fun. :)
Now I'll tell you something that I use to calm down when I feel worse. It seems awkward at the beginning, but works to relax and get a bit better mood. When I use it, I come out purified, calm, more complete. And everything it's described here is possible, so please don't be sceptic, ok? Please TRY IT, I ask you. Don't just read it, think I'm crazy in some way and close the window. Please... Now: sit down (if it's good outside, do it outside); close your eyes; calm down your respiration and focus not in something specific, but in your body as a whole; if it's possible, listen to something calm (a recording of the ocean would be perfect); imagine that golden roots are appearing from your feet, growing and growing in the ground, absorbing the energy of the earth and taking it for yourself; feel that energy wash your sorrows and your thoughts, feel it renewing your own being; imagine columns of light illuminating you and your hands, and at the same time, feel the energy of the surrounding nature in your hands (feel it twisting, vortexes of life swirling around your fingers); let all that energy go through your whole body (from the columns of light, from your hands, from your feet), maintaining a cycle and purifying you, giving you strength to continue; let the energy get out from your own head while it enters your members; understand that everything is a part of the whole, in whatever way it is, and for that reason, for being natural, it is good - nothing else matters; do it for the time you want.
If you're trying to do that, and you can't, I know... It's hard, but keep trying, calm yourself down. Relax and try to commune with your surroundings...
Be happy, Zephyr, I hope you get better. And I'm sure you're a fantastic person, whatever you say about that ;) Just be yourself :)
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough
♫♫Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth♫♫
I also hope you feel better with the people situation soon. Been there, done that. :\