That's why I grow my own food

Happy New Year girls and boys! I heart you so much. 2009 was kinda awesome for me. I got a really cool job at the start of it, met someone amazing and we fell ridiculously in love, and we spent New Year's Eve at home, in the house we built, the house we've been living in for a few weeks now and plan to continue doing so. It's weird that those three things have begun to define me, but they are kind BIG.

This is the first year after a very long time I'm not wishing to do more. I don't need to write a list of all the things I need to finish, start, think up. I'm doing all the time. The things I wish for myself in this year is the courage, energy and funding to start a business, the determination to drag my butt into yoga class, and maybe the availability to read more books.

I'm not sad to see the year go, I have to say. It was tough on some of you, and even though I've been walking on pink fluffy clouds, I have been following. It makes no sense to think things today can in any way be different from things yesterday. I've never been one for sense, anyway. So I hope 2010 will be magical for all of you. ♥

Some believe a photograph can capture a soul.

Not every photograph.

Consequently, not every soul.

All I could manage yesterday, because I didn't have an idea, let alone a plot. And it's not like I have them today but I have an opening line, a main character, and a whole meeting, so yay? I'll catch up today, I'm certain of this. I wish I had a soundtrack... I'll be posting over at dreamwidth for various reasons. And I'm here if you want to be writing buddies.

For inspiration I plan to watch the episode of Black Books when Bernard writes a book. ♥

When you're a kid you think being grown up is awesome, because grown-ups have money. Then you grow up and know that being a kid is actually awesome, because now you don't ever have any money, you only have debts.

I have a serious problem with unreasonable truths. They're not actually true, just things that people accept without question. Most of the time because someone in authority declared them so. I had a disjointed chat on twitter about authors not being allowed to read fanfiction. I'll agree that it's on some lever reasonable not to read fanfic of your own published work. But quitting fanfiction altogether because you're... what? Suddenly a different person after you get published? Why? Because of legal issues? Everything worth reading has already been written. Putting your own twist to it is the trick. That leaves being taken less seriously by other "real" authors. Which is a laughable reason to stop doing something you like. Writers aren't an exclusive group of awesome people. They're people, and some of them are really awesome, and some of them are assholes, and most of them are regular people that can be both. And they're not worth it.

My point being, if authors have to steal ideas, they can do it from published literature just as easily as they can from fic. Both cases make them jackasses. It's not in any way good reasoning to quit fic (reading and writing) on some presumed publishing policy.

It bugs me because it's only problematic because people make it a problem. And that occurs in every day life, all the time, about everything. Not that I'll ever write something and publish it and be faced with the problem. But I doubt I'll ever stop doing fan work of some kind. As I've been out of fandom life for a while I wasn't sure if I'd be signing up for go_exchange this year. But it felt wrong not to do it. It's not like I've quit reading fic, or lost the urge to create. It's just in the background with all that's been going on. (It's weird, I only know about five people in the exchange this year. I used to have at least a vague idea of everyone back in the day. I feel old. :) But it just makes me think harder about the above.)

And I can't shake the feeling that this belief has a lot to do with the old argument about the validity of fanfiction. I thought we were over that, no? :)

It's all based on my rebellion streak, I guess. Every time someone tells me I'm not supposed to do something I have to ask why the fuck not.

N: You'll make sure it doesn't rain today.
me: I'll talk to the gods.
N: In chat?