boo, real life

Recently there has been a gigantic lapse in writing. Mostly this is due to final semester stuff that has to be done - three papers (each of them anywhere from 12-20 pages) and one final exam that I complained about often (who gives final exams in a graduate literature program? I mean, really!). I still have one paper left, but I'm half way done and so not worried about it. One would think, then, that I might be able to get back on the ball with all my FP stuff. Sadly, this is not so. I think it might be because I'm still in that "finals" mentality but I haven't been able to write much of anything when it comes to fiction.

What is odd, however, is that the research I do for my papers has only given me more story ideas. "Megs, what's up with that?" You ask. Well, my dear, I haven't the slightest. But just in case any of you are interested in adaptations of Shakespeare from the Restoration era in British theatre, you'll be glad to know that I've been inspired while reading about some of the first actresses of the stage. Naturally, anything I write from this will have some definite feminist leanings (as, arguably, most of my stuff does). So far it looks to be a kind of historical fiction attempt and will thus require more research into specific actresses and/or theatre companies, but for now that's where my mind's at.

I also just watched a western the other day called The Searchers, but unfortunately it did not put me back in a Diamonds and Dust groove. I think the key is more Bob Dylan, actually, so I'll work on that. I'm just stuck in a difficult place right now with D&D - my mind alternates between finishing the story and what revisions I'm already planning to make (some of them major), so it makes it difficult to buckle down and beat it out. Eventually, though, I will.

Charlie is still working on his sequel for me, hashing out the details and such. I may revise TEAHODSC before posting it, just so the two fit a little more seamlessly, but this won't be for a while yet, I don't think.

Leave me comments! I'm lonely.