Strange Child Am I

Do you recall when you were a child, and, if you celebrated Christmas, you waited with anticipation for the 25th of December? Perhaps you tried to stay up late, or maybe you just got up early. The sound of jingling bells made you race down the stairs in hopes of catching a glimpse of the jolly old elf himself.

Well, I've had a couple of nights of staying up late, getting up early, and generally just not being able to concentrate. I can't even write, though I had hoped to, during these last few days. I've had the time, and how. I have the muses, they won't leave me alone. But there's something I've not had now for a week.

I really, really miss my library.

Gyah, y'know, if I ever see a fic with Erestor just pining for his library and then see a comment where someone goes 'oh, no one would ever care that much about a room full of books', I'll slap them with a smelly trout.

Seriously.

I am so close to tears it's not funny. I want my library. I want the aisles of books, the piles of unanswered correspondence I really need to get to, the half-buried desk, the comment box where someone keeps sending fake letters addressed from Turgon or Sirius Black, the silence, the comfy couch, the slightly mismatched furniture, the over;y excessive section on Alexander the Great, the out of order DVDs, the problem books with missing barcodes, the labels and the ink and all of that knowledge that normally surrounds me daily.

And strangely enough? I'm missing the council meetings, too. There's not another one until late January. That's over a month without one. A room full of people who can't agree, and I miss it. WTF, yo?

It's going to be very quiet tomorrow, and that's probably a good thing. I'll get to glomp the library and bond with it for a while without interruptions. I am extremely tempted to take some of my quills with me tomorrow. Or, rather, the muse is nudging me and saying I should -- who am I to refuse him, right?

Well, this little book deprived chief counselor is taking herself off to bed, because the sooner she does, the sooner she gets to see her library again. It's going to be like Christmas morning for me when I get there.

INSTOFIMO!

I have resigned myself to the fact that half of my ideas are brilliant and the other half are utter crap. Unfortunately, I don’t have foresight to know which are which until I just jump in and try them.

So… I have this… idea. It came from the mention last night on the Erestor Lover’s list that one should really try for the goal of finishing stories instead of just starting them. And even though I think I’ve finished more stories than 99% of the people in the LOTR fandom, I’ve probably also left unfinished more stories than 99.9% of the fandom.

So… onto my idea. Okay, here goes. Thinking along the lines of NANOWRIMO, and New Year’s Resolutions, I’m thinking of having a massive writing of endings for February. We can call it INternational STOry FInishing MOnth or just INSTOFIMO for short. And because it’s fun to say Instofimo… it sounds like something a magician says to open a door or something.

Gandalf: Instofimo!

Moria Doors: *Don’t move*

Gandalf: *grumbles*

Or maybe, what the heck, let’s go from January 15th to the end of February (on whatever day it decided to end this year… 28th I suppose… overachievers may continue through to February 31st if you like). I’d start on January 1st, but I’ve got Screw Yule going on, and that’s like the anti-story finishing event if ever there was one.

Why am I posting this instead of keeping it to myself? Well, there have to be some other people out there with the same dilemma as me! And insane ideas are best put into action in a group. Mob mentality or something. The more of us together will at least be able to commiserate if nothing else.

Anyone up for it? If so, I’ll go make a group or LJ community or something… or I’ll hijack one already in progress. Nanoerlo only gets used in November… I’ll have to pick up the soda cans from nano, but otherwise it’s clean…

instofimo, part deuce

Alrighty, so, those who are interested, there's now a pad to crash at:

http://community.livejournal.com/instofimo/profile

Hope to see you there!

-Zhie

WIP assistance needed...

Now that this fabulouswonderfulawesomecool idea has gone into effect, I'm trying to figure what I've started and left people hanging on... so, if you have read things I've written, and I've left you hanging, and it's not on this list, please let me know? Thanks!


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