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whiskyinmind
06 April 2005 @ 09:41 am
 
I'm an insomniac at the best of times, but this week I've literally not been sleeping at all. And yet I'm not all that tired now. Is it possible to go through some kind of barrier in sleep so that at some point my body just gave up and said 'fine, you don't need to sleep then, I'll cope'?

Huh, I'm having conversations with my body apparently, maybe I really do need sleep and just haven't really noticed. :)

I got a work email today - our access to the BMJ was down and a student was asking how she could get an article. The kind of email I get all the time and can usually answer straight away - with this one I'd already been working on it and by the time her email arrived I was one click of the mouse away from having it restored so that was good. Nothing really unusual about that except that this girl's name was Eilidh

Now Eilidh is a good old-fashioned celtic name but it's not all that common any more, so it's kinda unusual to see it and made me pay attention a little. Eilidh is also the name of my OC in What A Difference A Day Makes. Something I haven't touched for weeks now and a story which last month was officially a year old.

Thanks to this student who couldn't read the article she wanted on the BMJ, I now have a new lease of life in the story.

Oh, and the WKA site will be launching round two probably this weekend. Baring any more unforeseen circumstances. *g*
 
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[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:08 am (UTC)
Wow. WaDaDM is a year old, it doesn't seem that long ago since you started writing it.

Also, I don't know if you saw this morning, but congratulations INAP being runner up for best Archive and Winner for Best Character/Shipper site at SoGA. You more than deserve it for the amount of work you've put into the site.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:12 am (UTC)
Moments Lost was a year old on Friday there as well - I planned on doing something about it but that all went out of the window a little. WaDaDM is now 13 months old and really needs another chapter to celebrate that fact, don't you think?

I did indeed see that on Shannon's journal - I'm very bouncy about it! And congratulations to you as well for Unclean!
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:20 am (UTC)
You need me to tell you again how much I love What a Difference a Day Makes? (Authors *sighs despondently*) Okay then. I think this is one of your best works, I was blown away by the standard of the writing from the very first chapter, I'm intrigued by what happened in the cave and how it all started with Spike, but I'm more than happy just to read your characters having the interactions that they do. (And yes, although you didn't create the characters, apart from Eilidh, they are yours.) It's a very good story Sho, you should be proud of it.

Thankyou for the congrats, I was just thinking about going to bed when I saw the result, I ended up staying up for another hour or so 'cos I was that bouncy.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:31 am (UTC)
*grin*

I can see myself that my writing in WaDaDM is at a higer level than in my other fics, of all of them I think Destiny is the only one that even comes close. The only problem with that is that I do have the 'patented Shona self-doubt' hitting me square in the chest. (And yes, that is a line from the fic). I know it's good, I know I have an intersting story to tell, and I love the characters (including Eilidh) - what worries me about it is the possibility that it's all a fluke, that the next chapter will be crap, that people will be disappointed with the reveal about the caves, that Eilidh will morph into Mary Sue.

When I start thinking about it in those terms I get all panicky and freeze up on it. But then I tru to remember that sunny Sunday morning last March when I had a full pot of coffee on the go, my TwentySomething CD playing the first track on a loop and a smile on my face when I wrote the first chapter. It made me happy to write it, each chapter has. There's been times when I've read the little jokes and rolled my eyes right along with the characters. I like my own story and I guess that's all I should really focus on with it.

I should stop procastinating and just go write it shouldn't I? *g*
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:38 am (UTC)
Yep. That's the trouble I had with the Willow/Angel story that I was writing for Gabrielle. I was over thinking it. All it took was one little idea, and then the story came out, all I had to do was be there to tap the right keys so that the words came out on the screen.

And if you're liking your own story, that's really good. And that is all you should concentrate on because, as with anything, you have to be doing for yourself first and anybody else second.
[identity profile] m-mcgregor.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:35 am (UTC)
As a veteran in the war against insomnia, I can tell you that I've often experienced a point when it just seems like you don't need to sleep anymore. Usually it happens to me after I've been up about 24 hours or so. You reach a point where your body just kind of says, "Oh, so we're just going to keep going on like this? Fine with me!"

Then there are other times when you go a few weeks of 2-5 hours of sleep a night, and for some reason you just don't seem to need much more than that. Insomnia's a weird thing. I tend to think that all of us non-sleepers are suffering from the terror that is evolution. We should all be standing around the fire with spears protecting our tribe during the night, because clearly the need for sleep has been bred out of us.

Unfortunately, nobody has to watch out for sabertooth tigers anymore, so instead we sit in front of a computer. It's a fair trade.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 02:50 am (UTC)
LOL - and somehow the comparison between a computer and a sabertooth tiger doesn't seem all that inappropriate!
[identity profile] willowmina.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 03:08 am (UTC)
Congrats on the awards Sho, you deserve them.

As for sleep, I find watching TV 'til my eyes are about to drop out of my head tends to work.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 06:04 am (UTC)
Thanks Jackie! My only problem with watching TV when I'm tired is that I keep getting plot ideas in my head for insane crossover fics...

*g*
[identity profile] smhwpf.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 04:29 am (UTC)
Yay for the new lease of WADADM life, and congrats on the awards!

OK, now guess who I got an email from on Monday?

Jeannie Armstrong. (Who has red hair).

She had been googling her name, and found my ballad, and was wondering why I had apparently written a song about her! (I was able to reassure her it was a coincidence, and she likes the song!

So we have both been receiving emails from our own fictional characters.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 06:06 am (UTC)
Wow - now that is impressive! Poor girl must have been totally confused to see a song all about her!

And thanks! Is it this weekend you're doing the readthrough? I'll try to have the next chapter to you after that.
[identity profile] smhwpf.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 10:44 am (UTC)
Following weekend. April 16th. But if you get it to me next week, I should have time, things are fairly much falling into place for the readthrough.

Really looking forward to it! (I know what you mean about the 'burden of expectations' - but write what wants to be written, and fear not. 'twill be great!)
[identity profile] hjcallipygian.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 06:14 am (UTC)
Eilidh -- how do you pronounce that?

-- signed, Silly American
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 06:25 am (UTC)
hehehe - you're not the first one to ask. From namenerds.com: AY lee, Eh lee originally a dim. of Eilionoir, Eilidh is now regarded as the Gaelic form of Helen.
[identity profile] hjcallipygian.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 06:28 am (UTC)
That's so pretty.

Everyone in my family has names like Bob, Jim, Laura, Tom, Rob... It's all boring.
[identity profile] dimlondeiel.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 07:05 am (UTC)
Well done on the awards :)
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[identity profile] liz-marcs.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 07:20 am (UTC)
Are we at that time again? (The WKA).

The reason I ask is because I remember volunteering for slash judging.
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[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 08:14 am (UTC)
Yay for the WKA!!!

Sorry you haven't been able to sleep!


Gabrielle
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[identity profile] emeraldswan.livejournal.com on April 6th, 2005 11:36 am (UTC)
Is it possible to go through some kind of barrier in sleep so that at some point my body just gave up and said 'fine, you don't need to sleep then, I'll cope'?

Oh yes. It usually takes a day or two for my body to start in with this attitude, but it does happen. The downside is that I'll eventually crash. For hours and hours. As in dead to the world crashing, too. Where it wouldn't matter if someone tap danced on my head, I still wouldn't wake up.

I'm sorry you're having to go through it. {{hugs}}

How's your sister? And you, other than the not being able to sleep business?
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