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fandomtrees reveals. The last three days, I've been shuttling back and forth to the hospital for epic Scrabble bouts. I have two fics back from beta that I still hope to finish and post as late treats (both need rewrites), but I haven't had the brain to word. I spent a lot of my spare moments over the last 24 hours icing my knee and trying to draw an art gift, with no success. (Why are faces?? ;-p) So my plan is to finish the fics, and then go back and finish the things I started for Yuletide. And then go back even further and finish the thing I started for guardian_wishlist. ;-p Also, to continue on with *Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain* in the hopes it will make me better at faces.fandomtrees gifts, yayayay!!
I received five deliciously wonderful gifts for fandomtrees!! FIVE!!
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accomplishedormolu [awr-muh-loo]
adjective:
1 Any of several copper and zinc or tin alloys resembling gold in appearance and used to ornament furniture, moldings, architectural details, and jewelry
2 an imitation of gold.
Clars had described the clocks in its auction catalog as 'a rare pair of Chinese ormolu bronze automaton clocks' manufactured in a workshop in the southern port city of Guangzhou. (Steven Lee Myers and Graham Bowley, They Look Like the Emperors' Clocks. But Are They Real?, The New York Times, December 2018)
No gilded ormolu appears, certainly, but pieces are not without decorative flourishes. (Antonia van der Meer, Hemingway’s Homey Cuban House, The Wall Street Journal, June 2016)
He claimed almost 100 items had been stolen, including a Persian rug worth £35,000, valuable antiques and clocks, and a 19th century red marble rococo fire surround, with ormolu inserts. (Nina Morgan, St Albans fraudster who staged burglary and committed £1m mortgage fraud jailed, Herts Advertiser, January 2019)
He was rather sorry he had come, till Lady Narborough, looking at the great ormolu gilt clock that sprawled in gaudy curves on the mauve-draped mantelshelf, exclaimed: "How horrid of Henry Wotton to be so late!" (Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray)
Origin:
1765, 'an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin resembling gold,' from French or moulu, literally 'ground gold,' from or 'gold' (from Latin aurum, from PIE aus- 'gold;' see aureate) + moulu 'ground up,' past participle of moudre 'to grind,' from Latin molere 'to grind' (from PIE root mele- 'to crush, grind'). The sense of the word before it reached English began as 'gold leaf prepared for gilding bronze, brass, etc.,' then shifted to 'gilded bronze,' then to various prepared metallic substances resembling it. (Online Etymology Dictionary)
ushobwri and inkingitout but the gist is that writing smut is hard and every potential word choice is annoying me right now. (Disappointed that the several years I've spent writing smut does not cancel out this problem.) I'm writing still, it's just not at the clip I want. BUT I did adjust my desired emotional arc for one of the characters, so I think that should help things flow a bit better. After this installment, the series will be done, yayyy.seasonsofdrabbles signups close soon! I haven't properly signed up to an exchange in years but I stuffed the tagset with things I like, because who knows.snowflake_challenge to meet people and check out new-to-me journals! I'm not fussed about participating myself, because I already have my own topics I want to journal about, but might respond to a prompt if I feel particularly inspired by one.How are you doing?
I am okay
17 (63.0%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
10 (37.0%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
11 (39.3%)
One other person
10 (35.7%)
More than one other person
7 (25.0%)
threesentenceficathon has started! The first post is here.donutsweeper
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Talk about your creative process.I saw responses to this challenge start popping up on my flist and procrastinated because my initial response was lol what creative process??? because I've been blocked (in a fallow period*) for a long time now.
getyourwordsout community locked postgetyourwordsout post linked above, Sometimes you have to let the field lie fallow. I've always written in a "boom and bust" cycle: weeks, months, or years of tremendous output (two more-or-less complete MG novel drafts in the 2015-2016 school year!!) and then weeks, months, or years of pretty much nothing… but it turned out I needed those nothing times, as much as I hate them in the moment. (Honestly time: I am in a fallow period right now.) One of my most creatively successful projects (an interactive poetry chapbook) would not exist without the hours I wasted ("wasted"?) on TV Tropes.
Unlike an agricultural fallow period, these empty times aren't planned and I can't control when they'll start or stop. I could wake up with a picture book draft tomorrow morning… or in two years. I have no way of knowing. I know some things make it worse, like work stress or not taking my meds consistently, but what makes it better? What makes it bearable?
For me, it's hands-on hobbies (crochet, doll photography), low pressure creative work (small/old/indie web design), and the boring (and sometimes expensive) everyday work of maintaining my physical and mental health. (It's hard to write when your teeth hurt.)
Extending the metaphor, some plants are good for the soil. Maybe other kinds of writing will help? Try fanfiction if you usually write original, poetry if you usually write prose, nonfiction if you usually write novels.
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.
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