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[sallytuppence]

Here's what I did today!

I did not go to work. No, I stayed home all day and watched movies on my laptop which, apart from that Bringing Up Baby lapse last week, I hardly ever do. Must be the changing seasons.

(I must mention that it snowed here today, just a little bit, and we're due for snow again tomorrow).

First I watched Casanova with

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[squirrel_monkey]

No, I'm pretty much the same way -- the busier it gets, the more I write. Days off, however, are not at all productive. Then again, there's *point* in taking days off.

[sallytuppence]

Yes, definitely. I really needed a day off, too, after the last couple weeks. Oi. But didn't write anything.

Stress must somehow be good for writing, is all I can conclude.

[gregvaneekhout]

The kind of stress induced by being busy is not good for my writing. But other kinds of stress can be, as they encourage me to escape into my little worlds.

Sounds like you had a very lovely day. With snow, even!

[squirrel_monkey]

I only started writing as a way of coping with dissertation and pre-tenure years.

[anonymous]

Ooh, I loved Casanova...must watch it again soon!

But I'm actually the opposite with writing...this Tuesday I was all set to do fabulous writing during lunch hour, but work turned out to be insanely stressful, so instead of writing, I just spent the whole lunch hour decompressing to the point where I was capable of walking back into the office afterwards. No productivity at all (just tea and an Alexander McCall Smith Isabel Dalhousie novel)...and that's how it's pretty much always been. It's not that I can't write when work is crazy, but I have to work much harder to force myself to do it during those times. I envy your work-style - much more useful!

And good luck with the new short story!

StephB

[sallytuppence]

Thanks!

I think I just hit the stressed-past-productivity point. Hence the movies. Y'know, I love my job a whole lot, but they keep giving me stuff to do and I'm not getting a whole lot of positive feedback in the stuff I do get done (which is a lot, lot, lot). Despite the decompressing day off, yesterday, I feel like I need a day off. Argh.

Can't wait to hear about your trip!!

[jennreese]

I enjoyed Cassanova too! I did not, however, enjoy that version of P&P.

For me, there is a sweet spot for stress. Too much or too little and I can't write. But being busy--a nice level of stress--definitely helps me.

Congrats on the new story!! What's it about?

I'm so jealous of your snow!

[sallytuppence]

Why does stupid LJ keep logging me out?

Don't be jealous of the snow. All the plants by my front door are shriveled and dead this morning. Alas, the geraniums on the back patio, too. Soccer practice this afternoon is going to be awful.

That dragon story you read? It was rejected, which is actually a good thing, as now I can send it to a real market. RoF, I think.

The other new story is a little weird; it's about a mountaineer who loses her climbing partner to the queen of the mountains (who is the actual mountain) and has to rescue him.

[sallytuppence]

Also, what didn't you like about that version of P&P? Just curious. I kept being taken aback, especially in the second half of the movie, when the setting was wrong. Frex, Lady Catharine coming to Rosings in the middle of the night? Huh? And the mirror staring scene where Darcy comes in to drop off the letter? And the first proposal scene in the pouring rain (which Kiera biffed; more wooden acting have I never seen)? And Elizabeth sitting on the swing out in the barnyard? That was strange. And the scene in Pemberley with all the marble statues? Sheesh.

Even so, I liked it. Mr. Darcy = what's not to like.

I've been thinking about your 'crush' question, too.

Knightley vs Darcy

[elysdir]

Whereas for me, Keira Knightley = sex on legs, while Matthew Macfadyen looks like a John Cusack impersonator. But I didn't watch that version of P&P; I considered it, but then thought I would probably be happier going back and re-watching the one with Colin Firth as Darcy--be still my beating heart!

Re: Knightley vs Darcy

[sallytuppence]

Mm, mine, too. He is still the Darcy.