Date: 2007-12-15 14:53 Subject: Two recs Security: Public Tags: recs

Two things.

Firstly, By Candlelight, for lupinslittlesis by such_heights, rated PG. Summary: They sit together, still and warm and silent, as midnight draws near on Christmas Eve. Characters: Remus/Sirius with a sidenote of Molly. This is simply lovely, and really put me in the mood for Christmas.

Secondly, an art rec: Big Damn Emotional Journey by seviet. It's a series of pictures illustrating the emotional journey of Harry and Ginny, and it's utterly beautiful. Full of lovely moments (several sunlit days, maggot-in-the-hair, stealing Gryffindor's sword for Harry, Quidditch, the Chamber of Secrets...It covers the full gamut of emotions, I think. My favourite is the last one, of Ginny running after the train in book one. It's always been one of my favourite images of her.

In other news, I've finally worked out where my Yuletide story is going, which is a huge relief, particularly as it doesn't need to be very long. With regard to other writing, I'm going to commit myself to half an hour a day while we're on holiday, which should be enough to keep everything ticking over in my mind, while not stressing me out.

Off on holiday tomorrow! I probably won't post again before Christmas, so happy Christmas/Hannukkah/time off work/whatever you celebrate!

xx

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Date: 2007-10-20 09:20 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: insomnia, recs, yuletide

I've not had much sleep recently. On nights when I haven't been out, I've been working until bedtime, and since we got back to Oz I've been going to bed at midnight and waking up at six pretty much consistently. I figure something'll give at one end or the other eventually!

Anyway, I didn't sleep well on Thursday night, mainly because I was stressed about the amount of work I had to do on Friday, so I woke up at five. Started work at eight; finished...at four am.

Time to cut down on the work again, methinks.

Anyway, I managed to sleep until about eight, so I won't be doing much today! What I *will* do is take my notebook down to one of the local cafes and write for a while. I've been so busy recently that the idea of cafe writing suddenly sounds like a real treat.

My Yuletide assignment (speaking of people not getting much sleep, I'm so impressed that they managed to match everyone up so quickly) is fab. Am happy, and I know exactly what I'm going to write.

I'm tempted to write one of those "Dear Yuletide writer" letters, even though I'm pretty sure my requests were fairly clear and not too constraining. But I'm so enjoying other people's letters, and I keep popping over to my recipient's website to see if s/he has posted one, so perhaps my writer is doing the same to me?

I'm still updating my Delicious recs; the next job is to go through all the stories I've ever recced on my LJ and check that they're listed. Here's the current list, though:

Gen stories
Het stories
Slash and femslash stories
Art recs (only a few here because I am woeful at bookmarking art)

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