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Writing & Anxiety
Nov. 4th, 2020 01:16 amI've been watching this show, EVIL on Netflix. I think it was on network television but I don't have regular tv, so I didn't catch it while it was airing. I took a break from horror movies after Halloween and moved on to horror tv shows it seems. If you haven't seen it, EVIL is a show in the style of a procedural drama mixed with a bit of The Exorcist tv show from a few years back. Mike Colter (from Luke Cage) plays a priest-in-training who has a small team of assessors who study claims of possession and miracles for the Catholic church. It's a little on the cheesy side, but I've really been enjoying it. (I'm watching the last episode of season one now.) I appreciate that two of the three members of the team are non-believers, so they very closely examine all potential aspects of what could be the issue in each episode. But there's most definitely a supernatural bent to the show. I really hope there's an opportunity for them to start filming again at some point for a season two.
The show does suffer from "leaving shit out" syndrome where the characters just leave out important things they should be talking to the other people in their lives about. Like you're talking but you're not talking about the one fucking thing that might avoid some of these dramatic plot points.
Overall though, it's a nice distraction. I could see getting into writing something in that fandom later (is there a fandom??? I hope so. Investigation is required!) Later. I don't know if it was on the list for Yuletide but maybe I can treat it? We'll see.
Can't think about other writing now though.
I've been picking away at Nano. I decided to start a whole new story this year, something I've been thinking about for a few months and had stashed away a few notes on. I think if I can get through Nano, when I edit it the real story should be more like novella or even novelette in size, so way less than 50k. But for now, I'll push for more and see where it gets me. Of course writing tonight was really, really hard.
I've been an avid election night watcher since I first voted at 18 in the Bush/Gore election. It was maddening but riveting and ever since then I've been the person that stays up late and waits for all the counts to come in. I know I can't do that tonight, so not refreshing obsessively has been difficult. Writing tonight was like pulling teeth although I did finally get it done. I was hoping (optimistically) that I might be able to get ahead of my word count in preparation for my vacation next weekend. The trip to Florida (by car) is long an exhausting and I think those days might just get washed, I don't know. I'm going to keep trying anyway.
The show does suffer from "leaving shit out" syndrome where the characters just leave out important things they should be talking to the other people in their lives about. Like you're talking but you're not talking about the one fucking thing that might avoid some of these dramatic plot points.
Overall though, it's a nice distraction. I could see getting into writing something in that fandom later (is there a fandom??? I hope so. Investigation is required!) Later. I don't know if it was on the list for Yuletide but maybe I can treat it? We'll see.
Can't think about other writing now though.
I've been picking away at Nano. I decided to start a whole new story this year, something I've been thinking about for a few months and had stashed away a few notes on. I think if I can get through Nano, when I edit it the real story should be more like novella or even novelette in size, so way less than 50k. But for now, I'll push for more and see where it gets me. Of course writing tonight was really, really hard.
I've been an avid election night watcher since I first voted at 18 in the Bush/Gore election. It was maddening but riveting and ever since then I've been the person that stays up late and waits for all the counts to come in. I know I can't do that tonight, so not refreshing obsessively has been difficult. Writing tonight was like pulling teeth although I did finally get it done. I was hoping (optimistically) that I might be able to get ahead of my word count in preparation for my vacation next weekend. The trip to Florida (by car) is long an exhausting and I think those days might just get washed, I don't know. I'm going to keep trying anyway.
