If I ever get stuck and convinced everything I'm writing is utter crap? Remind me to go ding for a while. Yeah.

acadine has declared a Mary Sue goodfic challenge. Hence, an excuse for an attempt at my American DaDA teacher who saves Hogwarts and boffs an OoC Professor Snape . .

( he wasn't looking forward to this. )

It's November, and I've made a writing journal. necreavit. Fear.

( All Hallows Eve )
Other than that, there's not been much going on here but laundry. Washed my sheets for the first time this semester-- very excited.

It is incredibly hot up here in my third-floor garret (hey, I can tell people I spent a year as a starving artist in a garret now!), and they have turned off the air conditioning. This is just not on, man.

I currently have e-mail comment notification turned off on this journal, and every so often I feel like procrastinating and read back over old fic posts, and find that somebody left effusive praise two weeks ago, and I never noticed, and I feel terrible.

Speaking of procrastination, the late great Robert Benchley once wrote an article (which I have in anthology) entitled How To Get Things Done, which I have found to be the best method I know of for overcoming that crippling disease.

The basic idea is this: You start by listing everything you need to get done, in order of priority, and pick out the absolutely most vital and underline it in red. Like so:
1.Do daily writing!
2. Do chem and structural problems and poem for class
3. Do reading for class
4. Code for FA
5. Get books and papers organized
6. Update lj

The key to this is to convince yourself that the first item of the list *absolutely must be done*, and now, to swear to yourself that you'll do it before anything else. And before you know it, it's evening, and everything /else/ on the list has been accomplished, and you feel like you've had a productive day.