One Good Thing

[liralen]

After cranking out all that fiction, I'm not afraid of the blank page anymore.

What's better yet is that a sudden assignment for three church blurbs just fell in my lap today, so I'm just plowing through them without any doubt.

I'm debating which of two things I should give up for Lent...

One is giving up any inaction I might contemplate due to fear. (The inverse being always acting in faith for these forty days).
Two is any caffeinated coffee.

I suspect the first is more in line with my usual Lenten abstinences, i.e. giving up "self-doubt", "procrastination", etc... but both would challenge me, I suspect. *laughter* Any thoughts?

Comments

[calmingeffects.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people give up coffee but if you honestly do it...I reccommend you get some excedrin (i can not spell) because it is one of the few painkillers with caffeine in it. You will need it when the withdraw sets in

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's great advice.

Yeah... I've had the headaches, too.

Tea seems to help, too. Helps having a collection of about 35 different kinds of tea... *happy sigh* Though it amuses me that even though I *have* rose mutan white, phoenix pearl jasmine, high mountain ali shan, camel's breath pu-erh, and early spring pi lo chun... I usually just drink the dead black British Ty-phoo. *laughter*

Fun with Camels

[amberley.livejournal.com]

One is giving up any inaction I might contemplate due to fear. (The inverse being always acting in faith for these forty days).
Two is any caffeinated coffee.

Give up the first, and then on day 1 consider whether not giving up coffee is due to fear, and if so give it up too. If you're not afraid of giving up coffee, then keep drinking.

Or consider which one you're more afraid of and give that up.

Make up for it by drinking up your Camel's Breath Pu-erh, because who wouldn't want to drink something that smells like Camel's Breath!? If that won't wake you up, what could? Perhaps Jet would like to share a cup of Camel's Breath with you!


"Make no decision out of fear." -- Motto of eastern european dissidents

Re: Fun with Camels

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*falls over giggling*

Hmmm... I'm not afraid of giving up coffee. *grin* It's something pretty simple for me to do and easily tracked. Might be fun, though, to actually drink more of the Camel's Breath... *laughter*

I still love that motto.

[marith.livejournal.com]

I just saw this rather neat post on someone's book-writing process and thought of you. (Well, maybe you don't procrastinate, but the bit about being a shaman for the story made sense at least in my head!)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oooohhhh!! That is just beautiful.

Oh, I do procrastinate. Badly. The only thing that really gets me is a deadline, usually. It's like the Phoenix sweater, when I'm 95% done I'll just drop everything and let it slide, sometimes for months, until something wakes me up and then, like a crazy Banshee, I just go nuts the last week. Utterly insane.

The fanfic will suffer that too, I'm sure. But not until the boys get pretty much on the verge of shikai...

I did that in the Model 66 story... with a dozen authors, and all kinds of plots snaking in all directions, right when the denounment came, there was a brain haitus of nearly three months. Bah.

Kick me with this post again if you see me not posting at least once a week on the Twin Souls, again. *grin* I've tucked it into my memories. I'll use it like a talisman.

Thank you.