schemingreader

I have the day off for Veteran's Day. I probably should have worked it, but I was really looking forward to getting to hang out with my husband and child again. Our weekends often get co-opted by my husband's obligations. Oh well, perhaps I'll use the time for my freelance job, which still has some outstanding tasks.

As I write this, the dudes are in the bedroom; Daddy accidentally spilled his second cup of coffee on the little fellow in his lap, so they are getting cleaned up. I can hear frolicking.

Several people on my flist did the "Five Random Things About Me" meme. I didn't. I thought about it, but all the things I thought were random kept organizing themselves in my head.

So, two things about me, which are more apparent than ever after my first week of my new job:

1. My brain automatically organizes information into arguments, bulleted lists, metaphors and other patterns.

2. I am, nevertheless, extremely disorganized about my time and space, so that I immediately have struggles remembering appointments and keeping my work area tidy.

If I ever bring you into my house, this will be so obvious. I present elaborate meals that have carefully organized component parts--complementary by color, taste and nutrition--in an atmosphere of utter chaos that occasionally descends into full-fledged squalor.

It's no wonder that I am often overwhelmed by anxiety, with this tension between how I think and how I live.

I have been writing drabbles for the last two weeks. Generally I scribble them into a notebook while I ride the train to work. The last few drabbles have insisted on linking themselves. I think I'm going to post them as a story.

I can't stop doing this. I can't write a story without linking it to another story, or turning it into a series. For example, the Blue Tranquilium stories started as one stand-alone Snarry story. Snape's Escape was intended as a single stand-alone crossover Snupin/Patrick O'Brian story, and is now (curses!) an unfinished WIP. The first three or four stories I wrote in fandom are all in the same fictional universe. I think I have four or five stories that stand on their own, and nearly all of them are for festivals or challenges. It's really hard for me not to write sequels.

Though I suppose this isn't peculiar at all, considering that this is fan fiction. Fan fiction is all sequels to the original canon. So I shouldn't feel bad about this.