That Moment...

Don't you mean Celsius?

 

Probably not. I grew up with winters that had common windchills in the negative-degrees-Fahrenheits. Negative 4. Negative 10. Negative 20 SCHOOL'S CLOSED WOO!

In the pit of January in New York, 15°F and sunny feels really great.

 

Dear God, this Southern boy probably wouldn't make it in the biting cold month of January up in New York. You'd be finding me frozen in a café store at my laptop with a cup of Frozen Latté.

 

*giggles* You Southerners do have the thinnest damn blood. To be fair though, your 110° summers are not kind to me.

 

Hahahaha, so true. I bet you and the Canadians laugh at us when we complain about the cold.

Though yes, the summers here are beyond ridiculous. Even I get tired of it!

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TMW you are relaxing on the sofa, Guinness in hand while you write your novel when your hearing aid starts beeping, letting you know it's battery is running out of juice. You pause, think, Go ahead, run out. I'm not bound by the restrictions of my hearing aid/disability.

 

That moment when you were totally stumped in your overall story arc, but you thought of an awesome plot and now it aaall works.

 

That moment when you found something you've been looking for since what feels like the dawn of time. And you excitedly tell another person you found your tablet, but they're confused because the meaning of the term tablet has changed since the introduction of the iPad.

 

TMW life is crazy and you've had no time to write or mingle with fellow writers on this forum.

But I went to Big Bend National Park over the weekend, and here's a little something for those of you who think there's nothing to look at in Texas.

This was taken by my husband after we hiked 5 miles up to the top of this mountain. I'm the white dot in the center!




Also TMW you take your son to the doctor for nefarious sounding nightly coughing spells, and she looks at you like you're in idiot, says he "just has a cough" and prescribes you cough syrup. TMW, 3 days later he's still coughing and starts throwing up because of it, and despite the idiot doctor, you trust your mommy instincts and take him to the ER where you find out that he has reactive airway disease (temporary diagnosis for asthma), a sinus infection, and walking pneumonia. This mama bear wants to deliver a serious mouthful to his GP right now.

 

Wow. Brilliant.

 

No, I was being sarcastic.
If you want it in Celsius, 15 degrees Fahrenheit is approximately -10 degrees Celsius.
It gets into the negative degrees Fahrenheit where I'm from, so when the temperature increases above 0 degrees Fahrenheit after a cold spell, we all celebrate.

TMW you read a joke and it strikes you so funny, you think you're gonna die.

*This was the joke by the way. I read it somewhere. I don't know who started it, or who came up with it, but I laughed so hard, I really did think I was going to die. (< That was probably because of TMW you’re so tired that you’re delirious and can’t help but laugh at every little thing, and people start to think you’re high/drunk.)

"Ever heard that old adage, finish what you start? Sometimes it’s a really good idea, helps bring some calm to the storm.. i'm passing this on because it worked for me today. A Dr. on TV said to have inner peace we should always finish things we start & we all could use more calm in our lives. I looked around my house to find things I'd started & hadn't finished, so I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiuminun scriptins, an a box a chocletz. Yu haf no idr how fablus I feel rite now. Sned this to all who need inner piss. An telum u luvum"

 

TMW your current translation project, a response to a motion to suppress, contains the word "swimmingly" in the English original, as though somehow this were a word of appropriate register for such a document.

 

TMW you write out the perfect character development rant for one of your supporting characters, only to realize that because of plot, setting, context, and everything else...there's really no way for him to have this rant without it looking forced or making him look wholly immature.

EDIT:

TMW you realize that your current MC for your fantasy...may just be the wrong MC for the job. The guy doing the ranting? May just be the MC I needed.

Sweet Christ, I hate my characters sometimes...

 

That moment when you're excited to keep writing your story, but your brain is now mush from your manic state this afternoon.

 

TMW you find this forum, and you become more determined than ever to finish the writing you started, so you write more words in two weeks than you have in the past two years, and then... your brain dies on you. Not your creativity, just the part that puts your creativity into actual words.

(What a run on sentence.)

 

@Aidan Stern That's exactly what happened to me. Fist bump.

 

*Fist bump!

 

(Triple fist bump)

 

TMW you decide that you were born in the wrong era. I've felt that way for a long damn time, but TMW you realize that it also applies to the themes you prefer to center your pieces around. I accept that it is unlikely for my style to be appreciated in a generation where J.R.R. Tolkien is heralded as one of the Greats.

Meh. Oh well. Maybe in death?

 

Same here. Sometimes I wish I had been born in the mid-1800s. The irony is that, considering how sick I was as a child, I probably would've only lived for a few years before dying. :/ So I'm actually very glad I was born in this era.

 

That moment when you realize the character you've been fostering for the last two chapters is cooler than the character you actually spent time developing.

TMW you realize you can't kill off said character even though he has to die!

FML... *sighs*

 

TMW you realize that no matter what, your characters in your fantasy still appear in Medieval attire. In a setting that's supposed to be somewhat Edwardian.

Oi vey...

 

TMW you've met someone who you think actually qualifies as a "best friend" (something you've never really had), but she's a lesbian and therefore, people assume that you two are either dating or wish to be dating, and they constantly pull you aside to discuss it, and there is zero amount of convincing that will change their opinion. Sigh.

 

That moment when your phone drains battery so quickly that it keeps going down even after you've plugged in the charger...

 

TMW you watch videos of yourself riding and feel like you've learned more from that than from every riding class you took.

What kind of people are you surrounded with? Funny co-inky-dinky: the only person in my life I'd consider a best friend is also a lesbian. Seemingly they make good best friends.

 

TMW you want to change your avatar from an orca whale to Link, 'cuz, y'know...

TMW you do it anyway!!