I shall never understand LiveJournal...

[baratron]

Dear friends,

You make no sense! On Thursday, I posted about something very, very important to me - and received 4 comments. Yesterday, I posted about something incredibly annoying, yet trivial in the grand scheme of things - and received 7 comments.

Guys - I WROTE A BOOK! I know I've written books before - technically my MPhil thesis is one; but this is a novel, and I've wanted to Be A Writer for years. And now I am one! Maybe you think it doesn't count because I borrowed the plotline and characters from a video game. Well, lots of people borrow plotlines (a certain Terry Pratchett has been known to borrow liberally from a certain William Shakespeare), and I've taken perhaps all of 3,000 words from the game. The rest of it is mine.

Maybe you were waiting to congratulate me until I finished it completely? I dunno. I'm pretty proud to get to the end of the 50,000 words. Given that I'm feeling better and am likely to be back doing College work next week, I don't know how long the rest of it is going to take. A while. Certainly longer than another month.

...People are strange.

Comments

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I absolutely love all your long posts, the travel blogs, the health updates, the theatre stuff you've been doing recently. Do I comment? No. What could I say? "I enjoyed reading this, thanks"? To something that's a few thousand words long?

Clearly we all suck, and all need more energy and/or spoons with which to make more of an effort :D

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Energy and spoons, yeah, that would help. Although if I had them would I be using them to find and keep a great job? Or would I embark on yet another fascinating distraction?

It totally made sense to me that you would have the spoons and follow-through for a great creative effort, because it works that way for me. That kind of energy comes from a different store than, you know, college and stuff. Like the theory of having a different stomach for ice cream.