Today, in Questionable Use Of Time

[rikibeth]

 I'm not doing NaNoWriMo. Not really. Not by the rules. But I have a story I'm working on for the Speak Its Name Advent Calendar, and I have a number of other things I want to write (mostly for open calls, but also one short fanfic I got bunnied for last night) -- so I'm sort of wondering if I'll write 50,000 words this month. One of the open calls

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[jestana]

I'm definitely procrastinating on writing. *sheepish* I have a couple scenes in mind to work on, but I haven't actually sat down and written them. *headdesk* I think I kind of burned myself out.

[rikibeth]

So you take a few days and do brain-restoring things. Knitting is good for me. So's baking. Stuff that uses the non-verbal, non-linear parts of your brain. Exercise is said to be good, but I wouldn't know. Music is too, especially if you PLAY music. You're not under a deadline. Feed your brain.

[jestana]

I have been doing that, but still nothing. *amused*

[eglantine_br]

I got a little writing done-- a very little. Maybe more later. I have to get some food into my house. No choice about that.

But, oh, I wish I had a stand mixer! I mean of course you have a stand mixer. And you deserve one, and I bet you use it a lot, and know all kinds of things to make with it. But I have a terrible case of stand mixer envy...

[rikibeth]

I turned a very ugly wedding gift crystal punchbowl into a stand mixer, twenty-one years ago. The mixer has outlasted the marriage

[eglantine_br]

Maybe, (is dubious...)

[rikibeth]

There's a small issue with the reality of buying one today over buying one 20 years ago, too. I have the low-end, tilt-top KSM45, the 4.5 quart model, when most serious people will covet the 5- or 6-quart model with the lever that raises and lowers the bowl, and for which you can get a copper bowl liner for whipping egg whites most effectively, and a water jacket for the bowl to chill it for whipped cream, and the "professional" models with the more powerful motors

[trowa_barton]

Can I claim toddler for my procrastination?

[rikibeth]

That's not procrastination. That's PRIORITY.

[deguspice]

"also one short fanfic I got bunnied for last night"

Could you please help me and define "bunnied"?

(the definition for "bunnied" in Urban Dictionary doesn't seem likely)

[rikibeth]

Shorter form of "plotbunnied." Plotbunnies come hopping up to you and beg to be written. It's acquired a verb form.

[reveritas]

I wrote 250 words of Nano and then sat down and read an entire autobiography. O_O

[reveritas]

("Wherever I Wind Up" by R.A. Dickey)

[rikibeth]

But please to call it "research."