5 things currently making me happy:

[melannen]

1. I finished one of my wips on the kink meme! Which is the first story I have *ever* finished that was longer than 10,000 words (in fact, it's the longest by about twice over). And it brings my word count for the year to about 37500 words - which makes me halfway to the 75,000-words-in-a-year goal.

\o/

Mind you, I also have another WIP on the meme that I need to do something with, plus two other kinkmeme prompts I really want to fill, plus three other stories in the fandom I'm working on, plus stuff outside Dresden fandom, but w/ever, I have proved I can do it.

2. BBC's Red Nose Day is doing 24 hours straight of live streamed comedy panel shows, viewable in the US. :D !!! I am only sad that I didn't hear about it until it was almost a third of the way over. (There's still over twelve hours to go!)

3. I recently discovered that our local public library offers free full access to Ancestry.com, and I am not terribly impressed, but the full searchable scans of old census records were pretty cool if you're still doing the simple stuff (even if the search itself wasn't great), and I managed to trace two more generations back with that mysterious great-grandfather I was trying to find last fall.

Also, evidence is building that what he did after he left my great-grandmother may have been run away to join the circus.

4. It is spring here! And the other day I found a whole new set of trails back in the woods near my house. So I've been going out and walking for at least half an hour at least four days a week lately, after a winter of more-or-less just hibernating, and my general happiness levels are already notably higher. (Also, I have to say, I get a lot more writing done when I'm a quarter-mile back in the woods overlooking the creek valley, there is no visible sign of people, and I can't get internets.)

5. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Comments

[jadelennox]

the Dresden files kink meme is making me write more than I have written in years, seriously. Maybe because I'm not worrying so much about quality, because I've never participated in a kink meme before? I'm not sure.

[melannen]

I'm pretty sure for me the thing about kink memes is the anonymity - I can turn off that horrible inner critic, because if it ends up being terrible, or as an abandoned WIP nobody will know it was me. And meanwhile I'm getting good feedback, and I know that if it doesn't turn out terrible, I can claim it later. It's the best of both worlds for a writer: all the joy and none of the accountability!

(Dresden Files in general is just the ideal sort of fandom for me to get into though, too. That's helping. Bookverse + familiar milieu + lots of canon but not constantly updating + faily enough that it doesn't make me feel inadequate but not faily enough to make me constantly angry + built on genres and mythologies that I'm already really comfortable writing in + huge world with lots of minor characters and worldbuilding that carry through = the fic just kind of flows when I let it. It really is a Harry Potter for grown-ups.)

[siegeofangels]

. . . I'm on my third episode of Friendship Is Magic since you posted this.

[melannen]

I feel like I should say sorry, but I'm not actually. ^_^ I was up to episode 11 when I got distracted by live panel shows.

[siegeofangels]

I'm not too torn up about it: this is amazing. Even if my brain keeps trying to mash them up with bandom.

[lady_ganesh]

I wonder what my great-great-grandmother did after she left my great-great-grandfather. (Other than, if he was anything like his son, breathing a long, deep sigh of relief.)

[pseudo_tsuga]

MLP:FIM has thoroughly sunk its claws into me. The characters are well drawn and the conflict is never imposed which is already better than the vast majority of shows. Plus the songs are catchy and the animation style is really cute without being cloying.