Updateishness

[rj_anderson]

My Inner Editor and I have come to a truce. Fixing Chapter Four turned out to be positively simple after a good night's sleep ("Weeping endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning," and all that). Then when I re-read Chapter Eight, which two months ago was the Worst Chapter Ever, and discovered that it was actually rather good in parts, I felt much better overall. I still have a few technical glitches to fix, and I'm still dealing ruthlessly with redundant and overused phrases wherever I find them, but I no longer feel as though I am up to my armpits in a cistern of my own authorial suckitude.

I went to the doctor this week about a strange visual/neurological symptom I've been experiencing every six weeks or so, with a blurred halo around my vision and wavy/jagged lines on the right side. Turns out that I am having migraine auras without the headache part. Funky! Now I can stop worrying and enjoy the ride, since it's probably the closest I'll ever get to synaesthesia.

I have a lovely fat slab of saffron cake, fresh from my mother's oven, and a steaming cup of Earl Grey. All's right with the world.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Weird about the auras--the first time that happened to me, I kind of freaked out, and then the pain hit, and I went, oh, it's just a migraine, then. Isn't it a bizarre phenomenon?

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

I get migraines with and without the pain. It's weird but fun! mmmmm Earl Grey tea....

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I no longer feel as though I am up to my armpits in a cistern of my own authorial suckitude.

*laughs* That's one of the better descriptions of writer angst that I've heard in a while.

Glad that a good night's sleep and saffron cake have fixed life.

[kerravonsen]

See? She's such a good author that she even describes her awfulness like a wordsmith... 8-)

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

Yes, that does sound similar to a friend of mine, who sometimes looks at a piece she's been involved in writing and says, "Well, at least it doesn't make me retch now..."

[greenwoodside.livejournal.com]

I'm glad things have worked out alright for you. :)

[(Anonymous)]

You and Hildegarde of Bingen.

Don't feel like composing some music do you?

I got those when I was pregnant last time

[christianlady.livejournal.com]

I would get those aura things when I was tired and stressed. I thought I was either having blood pressure issues or something scary wrong. My eye doctor told me they were migrains. I haven't had one since I had my baby. It was pretty scary at first. The first time I had anything like that I was in a car wreck and hit my head. It was like frost was forming on the world. Weird.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I've had exactly the same, but because I'd learned a lot about the visual effects - "fortification illusion" - I was more interested than worried. The nuisance while it lasts is the blank spot in the middle of my field of vision. Fortunately it doesn't happen often.

[superwench83.livejournal.com]

This is really bizarre. I've been having both of these problems... oh, except that I actually am getting the migraine pain, and my writing trouble is with Chapter 3, not 4. The migraines, though. Apparantly, they've been caused by sleep deprivation due to me staying up writing until 3 AM and then waking up at 7. Who knew writing could be hazardous to your health?