Tanned, rested, and ready to write!

[vanillalime]

Woot! I am back! From a very long, very busy vacation! Actually, considering the GO-GO-GO nature of our trip, maybe "rested" is not the right word... rejuvenated is probably better!

We spent most of our time hiking and kayaking through several National Parks in the US southwest (plus, at my insistence, a day in Vegas lounging by the pool, reading a book :D). Here I am with my husband on top of Devil's Bridge in Sedona, Arizona (from this distance, you can't tell how sweaty and exhausted I was, LOL):



(I was too chicken to walk over to the center of the bridge where it's the narrowest. I figured I was close enough. O_O)

Anyway, now that I've washed all the laundry, and bought some groceries, and sorted the mail, and searched social media for new pictures of Lee, I'm checking back into LJ! Where I'm feeling motivated to write again!

Ooooh there are new hardtime100 prompts! Plus I still have a story idea from the seasonal prompts cmk418 gave me! And I'm going to write up another episode recap from my Oz rewatch!

But best of all, I am energized to jump back into the long Oz fic I was working on. I took a break from it in early June when I reached a good stopping point, right before the action really gets going, so that I could write my Victoria Beecher story. Then when I went back to it, I was like, "OMG, you've written nearly 7,000 words and nothing has even happened yet! The pacing sucks! The story sucks! You suck!" And it sort of put a big damper on the whole project. :( But now I've re-read it with fresh eyes, and maybe it doesn't suck! So I'm going to do my best to get going on it again!

YAY!

I'm glad to be back amongst the other 5 Oz fans who have not yet abandoned LJ! We're keeping LJ cool!  ♥

Comments

[mazephoenix.livejournal.com]

Hi..waves..
I'm so glad you are working on the story. Great picture.

[vanillalime]

*waves back*

It was good to be gone, but it's good to be back! Apparently, I really needed to recharge my creative batteries! Hopefully, it lasts for a while... :-)

[suespur.livejournal.com]

Damn right we are!

[vanillalime]

If only everyone else would realize how cool we are!!! :D

[cmk418]

Glad to see you back!

Sounds like you had a good time & I love the pic from Sedona. It's one of the places I'd like to visit.

It's nice to know that you're feeling creative. Can't wait to read what you have in store for us.

And yes, we are super cool!

[vanillalime]

Thanks! Sedona was incredibly beautiful, I highly recommend it. I wish we could have spent more time there! (Although I feel that way about every place we went--short stays were the only way we could fit everything in.)

[mrs-sweetpeach.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! (As you can tell, RL has been kicking my ass.)

[vanillalime]

Thanks! (I know that feeling, too, unfortunately!)