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umadoshiMay is sweeping in with a significant downpour here, although at least it doesn't feel as chilly as the last couple of days did.
Out of curiosity, yesterday I opened my Scrivener file of Guardian fic and did a rough tally of the various WIPs, which have mostly not been touched since the start of the pandemic. (There are three subfiles of scraps written on my phone in, I think, 2022, 2023, and 2024, which collectively add up to not much. There isn't one for last year, which I guess tells a story on its own.) It all adds up to something like 60,000 words, which is...better? worse?...than I expected. "Better" in the sense that if I never get back to any of them--and I'm open to surprise, but it's been so many years--it's not a terrible number of words to let fall away, even if there are things in there that I'm sad to not have finished, especially the pieces that were meant to link up with the incomplete story cycle that five of the six fics I posted belong to. :/
(I'm also a bit curious about what a similar tally of unposted Newsflesh bits and pieces would add up to, but that's scattered among multiple Scrivener files, all of them divided into multiple sections, so it'd be more of a pain.)
Yesterday and today are days off from Dayjob to work on Yona (ohmyheart), and I'm getting back to that as soon as I finish this post...while also having a first listen to Tori's new album, In Times of Dragons. So that's an odd combination, but I want to just...feel the vibe of the album without trying to immerse myself in it, given my track record of her last several. (All of which I relistened to recently for the first time in a long while, and I like the sound in general, but still had no luck bonding lyrically.)
Glancing back and forth to the lyrics is not going to help with work focus, but oh well. I need to know what she's singing. (Toriphoria already has the lyrics up, fortunately.)
Interview quote following the lyrics for "Veins":
You’re actually hearing it as I heard it for the first time. It was recorded as I wrote it, a direct “download” from the muses. I tried to record it again afterward and could never replicate it. I was sitting with arranger John Philip Shenale, the tape was running, and that was the moment. Just like when I recorded the song “Marianne” back in 1996. Some things only happen once.
Out of curiosity, yesterday I opened my Scrivener file of Guardian fic and did a rough tally of the various WIPs, which have mostly not been touched since the start of the pandemic. (There are three subfiles of scraps written on my phone in, I think, 2022, 2023, and 2024, which collectively add up to not much. There isn't one for last year, which I guess tells a story on its own.) It all adds up to something like 60,000 words, which is...better? worse?...than I expected. "Better" in the sense that if I never get back to any of them--and I'm open to surprise, but it's been so many years--it's not a terrible number of words to let fall away, even if there are things in there that I'm sad to not have finished, especially the pieces that were meant to link up with the incomplete story cycle that five of the six fics I posted belong to. :/
(I'm also a bit curious about what a similar tally of unposted Newsflesh bits and pieces would add up to, but that's scattered among multiple Scrivener files, all of them divided into multiple sections, so it'd be more of a pain.)
Yesterday and today are days off from Dayjob to work on Yona (ohmyheart), and I'm getting back to that as soon as I finish this post...while also having a first listen to Tori's new album, In Times of Dragons. So that's an odd combination, but I want to just...feel the vibe of the album without trying to immerse myself in it, given my track record of her last several. (All of which I relistened to recently for the first time in a long while, and I like the sound in general, but still had no luck bonding lyrically.)
Glancing back and forth to the lyrics is not going to help with work focus, but oh well. I need to know what she's singing. (Toriphoria already has the lyrics up, fortunately.)
Interview quote following the lyrics for "Veins":
You’re actually hearing it as I heard it for the first time. It was recorded as I wrote it, a direct “download” from the muses. I tried to record it again afterward and could never replicate it. I was sitting with arranger John Philip Shenale, the tape was running, and that was the moment. Just like when I recorded the song “Marianne” back in 1996. Some things only happen once.
