Moving + writing

[luzula]

Whew, I am done with this stage of my moving, but it was a struggle. There was just more stuff, and then more stuff, as happens when a succession of housemates have lived in an apartment and left shit behind (wtf, why does Microsoft Word’s dictation censor the word shit and replace it with ***??). And I was left to take care of it. One particularly careless housemate even left dirty dishes in the sink when she left!!! *boggles* I am very grateful for my dad who helped me on the last day. Also very grateful I paid for the cleaning and made the housemates pay for some of that. And I am looking forward to hopefully getting housemates who take more responsibility.

I have managed to keep writing throughout most of this, and now have three chapters and 15K of my current longfic! I love it when a story is alive in my head: I always have a rough outline in my head when I start, with the main plot and with the basic emotional and/or relationship arc. But as for smaller plot details, they usually bloom and embroider themselves in my head when I get to that part of the story, and it's such a delight! When I've thought of a title for the story, I suppose I'll start posting it as I go.

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[jesse_the_k]

MS Word be d@mned! (I taught my phone to swear by adding a system-level text replacement: expand “fuck” into “fuck”. looks like this is a similar process in Windows Word)

Argh, housemates.

Moving moving moving!

[luzula]

Hee. I mean, I assume I can also just turn off the auto-correct (it's a new computer, so I haven't gotten around to it).