Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

- Graycie Harmon

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Recovery Time

Yesterday was hell.

Such incredible, stupid, unmanageable hell.

It was so very hellish that when my flatmate called to find out what was going on, I promptly burst into tears.

It's a work matter, not a writing one (Oh, how I long for the day when writing is my work!) , so I'm not going to go into detail here. Needless to say, it was a terrible, terrible, terrible day.

Obviously, no writing was done. No writing will be done today, either. Or tomorrow. I'm giving myself the rest of the week off writing. Luckily for me, I have a project that will keep me occupied, and while it isn't writing, it is related to my writing future. So I won't feel like I'm totally slacking off.

Right, I'm off to catch up and get to work. Hopefully today will be much better.

Animadversion

Serious consideration or observ[ation].
- Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749

A taking notice of a fault with some degree of anger, severity, or dispatch.
- Daniel Fenning's Royal English Dictionary, 1775

An observation made upon a book after duly examining into the merits of it.
- Thomas Dyche's New General English Dictionary, 1740

Reproof; severe censure.
- John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, 1835

2 comments:

Pam Asberry said...

My heart goes out to you, S.M.! Yes, here's hoping today is much, much better for you! (((HUGS)))

S.M. Carrière said...

Thanks so much, Pam. A good thing from all this, I'm now more determined to implement the changes I started earlier this week!