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Handgemacht – Folge 77: Der Weg des Künstlers

April 29, 2017 by Susanne Leave a Comment

http://creativemother.de/audio/Handgemacht77.mp3

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Gestrickt habe ich:

  • Peachy Miss Winkle: so gut wie fertigimage
  • Spiral-Socken: ein Paar für meinen Mann angefangenimage

Gesponnen habe ich:

  • nichts
Gehäkelt habe ich:
  • Sophie’s Universe: Teil 7 ist fast fertigimage
Genäht habe ich:
  • Auftrittskleid zugeschnittenimage

Erwähnt wurde:

  • Camp NaNoWriMo
  • meine Patreon-Seite
  • Rhiannon
  • Julia Cameron: „Der Weg des Künstlers“*
  • „Rethinking Positive Thinking“*
  • Ravelry-Forum „The Yurt“

(Alle Links mit * sind Affiliate-Links.)

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And I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo again

April 26, 2017 by Susanne Leave a Comment

One of the reasons that I haven’t written much here lately – even though I made a commitment to myself to post something once a week at least – has been that I’m in the middle of doing Camp NaNoWriMo yet again. I had wanted to write the first draft of the third in the current trilogy, and so I thought that would be a good thing so that I could write that faster. I’m not quite sure why but NaNo works for me every time.

Of course right now I’m at that stage where I am completely convinced that the whole story is crap, that nobody ever would want to read it – me included – and that stopping it and starting something else would be a fabulous idea.

And of course there is only one thing one can do in a situation like this: finish writing it.

Because it’s always the same. I am a little more than halfway through the story right now, and that is always when I lose interest. Writing middles is hard for me, and now that I know where this is going, and what will happen it’s not all that exciting anymore. And I’ve been sitting down to write every day for three weeks now, okay, most days, and it’s starting to get old.

I also stopped revision on the second novel so that I could take advantage of Camp NaNoWriMo for the third one. I’m still not sure if that was a good thing but that’s what I did, and now I’m stuck with it.

I am hoping that I’ll be able to pick that revision up again at the beginning of May, and that my notes and my memory of what happened, and what I want this book to be are good enough that I can sit down and actually make the cut. And that I then will be disciplined enough to sit down and revise novel number three.

Discipline is kickking my ass, by the way. I still get up at five, and the benefits are big enough that I want to continue doing that but I’m still not going to bed early enough, and so my whole world consists of tiredness right now. It is somewhat alright in the mornings which is why I can write at all but as the day goes on ot becomes harder and harder. Until I lack the willpower to turn off the lights at night.

And this weekend things will be extra-interesting because we have rehearsal, and even a kind of dress rehearsal for the thing we’re going to play at the beginning of May, and that means not only will I have to be coherent and with people until my bedtime and beyond, I will also have to sing and play and focus on what I’m doing at a time where I usually just slump around reading.

And before that I will have to get beds ready for the musicians who stay overnight, and help my husband make food for them, and do dishes like crazy, and go to the grocery store, and help set up for rehearsal.

In fact, it’s not quite seven yet, and I feel like crawling back into bed already.

Still, I will have to find a way to write my 2,500 words today, and do everything I need to do, and be nice and polite and professional.

So yeah, that is why I haven’t posted here this week. I did write lots and lots of words, though, so I hope that’s alright with you.

Filed Under: NaNoWriMo, writing

Handgemacht – Folge 76: Handarbeiten im Frühling

April 17, 2017 by Susanne Leave a Comment

http://creativemother.de/audio/Handgemacht76.mp3

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Gestrickt habe ich:

  • Next Generation Pot Holders: der zweite ist zu einem Drittel fertigimage
  • Peachy Miss Winkle: etwa ein Drittel gestricktimage

Gesponnen habe ich:

  • grüne Merino/Seide auf der Bosworth Featherweightimage
Gehäkelt habe ich:
  • Sophie’s Universe: Teil 5 ist fast fertigimage
Genäht habe ich:
  • Probekleid ist etwa halb fertig
  • Stoff für das tasächlich Auftrittskleid bestellt

Erwähnt wurde:

  • Camp NaNoWriMo
  • Stoffkontor
  • Kleid Lupita vom Milchmonster
  • meine Patreon-Seite

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Random on a Wednesday

April 12, 2017 by Susanne Leave a Comment

  • It is the first week of Easter break, and I’m so out of sorts that I typed „Thursday“ in the headline at first. As you know I’m always a little thrown by things like weekends and breaks, and this week my husband is also away with a friend for a few days in Italy. Of course I thought I’d have huge amounts of time on my hand in which I could do all.the.things. Finish sewing the muslin for the performance dress, make all.the.music, read all the books, write like the wind.
  • Instead I spent Monday morning waiting for my husband to leave, then got frozen pizza at the last minute, made that, had lunch, taught a student, went to a doctor’s appointment with out son (we biked there and I managed to get lost twice), then teach another student, and that was that. Then go to bed way too late.
  • Tuesday the sloth descended on me, and I basically did nothing the whole day but sit, read and crochet. Until my back and arms hurt. I skipped my Tuesday run, did not practice, did not shower, and was extremely cranky by the end of the day.
  • Since past experience has taught me that me sitting and reading and knittein (or crocheting, whatever) and doing nothing else is a fast track to depression I decided to do everything right today.
  • I got up, did my morning routine, wrote, had breakfast, wrote some more, then waited for our son to get up (bad move when you have a teenager), was late for the run that I had decided to do today instead of yesterday, tried calling my mother, and just when I was about to get out the door to run errands she called me back, we talked for 45 minutes, I was way too late for erranding, went to the health food store and the pharmacy, went back, made baked beans and eggs for lunch, decided to read a bit before doing the dishes, and really buckling down, and the next thing I knew it was three hours later.
  • While I am halfway through the book I started yesterday somehow that doesn’t really give me that fulfillment and rosy glow that I hoped for.
  • I plain forgot to blog last week, by the way, which just goes to show how out of wack I am.
  • I promised my husband to buy gasoline for the lawn mower back in the fall, and he put the empty canister next to my bike. I then promptly forgot until he reminded me a few weeks ago. Also twice since, and last week. I might want to go and get gasoline but it’s always really weird to bike to the gas station, get the canister out of your paniers, fill it with a few liters, carry the canister inside to pay because I can’t just leave it standing around, and if I put it in the paniers the bike will topple over, and the bike back home.
  • I also forgot that I need to go to the cobbler to get my shoes back twice. Even though I put it on a list. Lists only help if you look at them regularly.
  • And now that my husband isn’t here not only do I have to cook every day (I have almost forgotten how to do that, by the way) I also have to water the millions of plants everywhere that are supposed to be planted in the garden in a few weeks. His whole studio is full of pots with seeds and tiny plants in them. Also I can never remember which of the vegetable beds outside is the one without seeds in it. I just water them all.

I’m really not cut out to deal with change in any way, I know. I’m hoping to get better some day but right now the only way I see is to just get the shoes and the gas right now (before the cobbler closes), then do the dishes, do strength training, go to bed on time, and hope for the best for tomorrow.

So, how’s your day going? Sloth? Not-Sloth?

Filed Under: life, lists

Handgemacht – Folge 75: Häkeldeckenplanungschaos

April 1, 2017 by Susanne Leave a Comment

http://creativemother.de/audio/Handgemacht75.mp3

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Gestrickt habe ich:

  • Sunny Knee Socks: fertigimage
  • Next Generation Pot Holders: der erste ist zu zwei Dritteln fertigIMG_1864
  • Wrap Tie Headband: fertigIMG_1862
  • Peachy Miss Winkle: angefangenimage

Gesponnen habe ich:

  • Nube auf dem Victoria: die ersten zwei Spulen sind voll
Gehäkelt habe ich:
  • Sophie’s Universe: angefangen, bin bei Runde 5image
Genäht habe ich:
  • immerhin habe ich schon das Schnittmuster für das Probekleid zum Auftrittskleid ausgeschnitten, aus der Burda Vintage „Die sagenhaften Sixties“ das Modell „Tina“.

Erwähnt wurde:

  • Camp NaNoWriMo
  • Miracle Morning* von Hal Elrod (gibt es auch auf Deutsch)
  • patreon
  •  A Dress a Day und ich habe ein Tutorial für Reißverschlüsse in der Seitennaht gefunden bei Gertie Hirsch
  • Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: Rest*
  • Kim Werker
  • Mr. Money Mustache
  • Ramit Sethi: The save 1,000 dollars in a month challenge

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