Evening, Purgatory! Repped as I got up, but still ended up with a huge catch up post anyway. Erm, oops?
(((sunna))) I'm so sorry.
(((Kia))) I'm so sorry your co-workers are responding that way. Please don't hesitate in reporting to someone about this, workplace bullying should never be tolerated.
To go briefly back to the hair length/grey topic:
My maternal grandmother had lovely grey-silver hair that she curled every week up to when she was in hospital. My mother and aunt both started going grey in their thirties and forties, but my dad's red hair is just gradually going a paler shade of orange. So my sister and I aren't sure which way we're going.
And to go briefly back to the age/being 23 topic:
My last serious girlfriend broke up with me the night before my 23rd birthday. Well, kind of. I ended up doing the for-real breaking up two weeks later. So being 23 was an emotional trainwreck from hell for me.
...yes, since everyone knows what age I currently am, I admit my dating luck hasn't been great.
I also wear patterned socks to work, much to my family's dismay. They still can't believe my dress habits and lack of make-up haven't been mentioned in an annual review.
i also believe in the gut
and am intuitive as a writer.
always like to challenge myself
but know when something is beyond my reach
as a writer at the moment. i think i can expand
Blue Skies to a full novel length. i'm not sure
if or when i'll ever be ready for the pre cultural
revolution historical set in china i'd love to write
inspired by my maternal grandparents' romance.
I wrote the first draft of the Alice book I'm currently revising back in 2007. And quickly realised I wasn't good enough to make it work the way I wanted. So I saved it in a zillion places and went off and wrote the wolves. In the wolves' Big Mammoth Neverending R&R of Doom, I discovered a lot of my weaknesses. So I'm approaching the Alice book feeling (and hoping) that I've improved.
And now I feel that I can not only tackle it the way I wanted to, but I've made significant adjustments to it that I don't think I could have back in 2007.
Actually, you can find the original Alice query in QLH back when I thought I could revise and query it. I want to pet my almost-22-year-old self and go, "Awww, bless."
Every time I get a contemporary idea, twenty minutes later a ghost shows up, or a vampire, or magic of some kind... The last time I had a contemporary roadtrip idea, it snowballed into including time travel and a serial killer.
Mostly, I fear not being good enough and more to take on as a client/give a contract to/etc. All I can do is keep writing and hope I improve and luck will meet the right MS. (Or so I keep telling myself.)