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Personal post for the month
I was away for a bit longer than expected and just as I was starting to tackle the mass of emails, notifications, rss feed updates, blog posts, etc, I got sick. I'm still not 100% but I'm getting there, more slowly than I'd have liked but getting there. Basically aside from a few really nice days with family early in the month February was a non-event in terms of getting anything done.

I swore this year I'd allow myself to be sad when needed, to say it's ok if I've been overwhelmed, if I'm emotionally overwrought, mentally upset, physically sick, and to not berate myself for lack of productivity. That's an ongoing challenge. I know I'm behind on my GYWO wordcount, and I know I'll never really catch up on all the past things, so I'll have to choose where to put my energy and do my best to get to a fresh start in March.

So I apologise if
1) I haven't replied to your comment yet (or if I don't reply at all)
2) I haven't read/commented on an entry of yours you know I'd usually show up for

I did manage all 4 weeks of #writingwednesday at the writing blogs, mostly by minor editing of older material from personal posts and WiPs, and the use of scheduled posting. That's something :)

Let's hope March brings us all good health, good weather, and the chance to meet some of our goals!

I'm still processing things but I'm slowly moving on, realising part of the anger is because I got dumped without chance to defend myself when I should have left them ages ago given how often they managed to be insensitive.
Also that's three ex-friend bisexuals who've managed to pull shit about my being asexual and it's really starting to wear thin. I still believe that bisexual people aren't all like them, but I keep seeing otherwise and it sucks. I don't tend to have much in common with other asexuals online either, which is frustrating.

I've written a little, and edited quite a bit, things I'd started a while back and finally polished and posted.
I signed up for NaNo but I don't know if I'll actually participate, or if I'll do rebel NaNo and include anything I write in November.
I got my Yuletide assignment and I'm happy with it and have some potential fic to work on soon which is nice! I'm also pretty sure which fandom I requested will be the one I got matched on and I'll be excited to see what gift I get ;
I like to write treat fic too; it was a bit disappointing skimming a few letters and seeing someone asking for the same fic I wrote as treat fic last year. Maybe they just reposted their letter without updating it. But still. It wasn't just "I'd love a coffee shop au" type deal either, but a very specific thing, say "A works as a barista and B is a student that A starts giving free coffee to but then they find out B's ex is the coffee shop owner and angst ensues". I can't help wonder if it's because I didn't include Explicit Sex that the treat fic which hit all the points they wanted wasn't good enough :/ (Bonus since my assignee last year didn't respond to either fic I wrote for them nor the two treat fics other authors gifted them, which is against the spirit of yuletide. Luckily we all got comments from other readers.)
It won't stop me writing more treat fic for others though. And one of the treat fics from last year finally got a comment from the person I'd tried to gift it to (but their Ao3 name didn't seem to match their DW name where I read their letter).

Thing I did this week: back up my harddrive. Maybe some of you need a reminder to back up data? :)

Last week I was outside in a t-shirt. This week I'm thinking winter has arrived!

I'll be away the rest of the week and will catch up when I get back. I've scheduled posts for the professional blog (the Samhain post I published here today).

Have a good week everyone!

Things have been rough. I'm behind on reading. I'm struggling to keep my commitments to 3 fics per month at the professional blogs.
Last week I posted https://lmdee.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/fic-and-blog-update/ which linked to some earlier pieces of fiction and poetry and talked about my new website. The full text and links are reposted below. This week I posted, with some minor edits, an older piece of fiction.

Please do give the website a look and let me know your thoughts.

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Today is Writing Wednesday, week 2 of the month, but Writer's Block and personal issues have struck. So instead of something new, I'm revisiting some past posts that you might not have seen (or remember!)

I also want to mention that I have a new website including a Works In Progress (WiP) page, and my Tumblr now has an index/navigation page with a list of tags. I have updated my Wordpress Welcome page too.

Fiction



Fic: A Kiss Divine – a modern day romantic tale of Ariadne and Dionysus wordpress ; fic blog ; tumblr;twitter;pinterest;facebook



Fic: Too Far , a short humourous piece.
wordpress ; my original fic blog ;  tumblr;twitter;pinterest;facebook



Ficlet: Do You Believe in Magic – short humorous tale with a twist wordpress ; fic blog
tumblr;twitter;pinterest;facebook



Flash Fiction: The Dragon Savers – a children's tale where the onus is not on killing a dragon wordpress ; my fic blog ;  tumblr;twitter;pinterest;facebook



Poem: Affection – a tanka fiction blog ; wordpress ; pinterest ; twitter ; facebook ; tumblr

The Artist: What it is to live with the muse – a prose poem about the joy and pain of creativity wordpress ; writing blog ; tumblr;twitter;pinterest;facebook

Paired Poetry – 2 poems about a relationship as it grows and fails wordpress ; fic blog ;
 tumblr;twitter;pinterest;facebook

 
 





Mara, my dog niece. Died today.
She was ten last month. Inoperable tumour discovered last week.
Mara was a terrible puppy, biting and chewing everything. But her boistorous nature got me over my nervousness around bigger dogs. She grew into a big half-lab/half-malamute who liked to grumble a lot. She didn’t like other dogs aside from new puppy Benjy, but she was loving with us and protective of her family.
One time I cooked sausage rolls to take on a picnic and puppy Mara got to them before I could pack them away and had all her calories for the day and we did not get sausage rolls that day :P
Whenever she heard sirens she’d howl, standing on her hind legs to join in.
Ten doesn’t seem old to me despite that being about typical for larger breeds. She’d had joint problems but supplements had helped and she was still able to go on her normal walks and play games.
If I’m closer to Benjy it’s partly because he was a better behaved puppy but partly because I learnt how to deal with dogs because of Mara.
She’ll be missed.

Britain had the hottest ever recorded July day on the first of the month. I've been suffering in the heat, not sleeping well, and couldn't get online yesterday even when it was briefly cool enough to be indoors. Thankfully today is cooler. I'm very behind on everything though, and next week is my scheduled backup of the entire pc, so I'm going to be busy for a few days. Additionally, from the 9-18 July I'll be house sitting so I might not be online as much. One day I shall be fully caught up.

It's almost two months since I started blogging at my professional sites. Sometimes I seem to be gaining audience and at other times the entire endeavour seems pointless. Then again the same goes for blogging at LJ/DW.

I made a banner for my WP blog and I'll probably see about including it elsewhere unless anyone has issue with the wording:



ETA: check out this month's fancake:

Whatever bug I had last week came back again. I'm still feeling under the weather. It'll be a while before I can catch up with entries and comments. I'll have to prioritise items with deadlines first, but I will do my best to get back on track by the weekend. Thank you for your patience :)

Slightly belated where I've been, where I'm at, where I'm going post.
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My PC refuses to boot at all today. I'm worried it's completely dead, and I can't afford a new one, and everything I do (search for jobs, browse net, write, make graphics) revolves my computer. I've replaced the motherboard battery but still no joy. I'm typing this on my parent's PC. I don't know when I'll get to respond to comments or emails, let alone anything else. So please excuse my absence.