Home Again
Jun 03, 2011 
Well, I’m back in the U.S. again. Tada! I’m staying with my parents while I sort out work/apartment/etc. It’s definitely an adjustment, learning to work with people around all the time, as in Australia I had perfect quiet and stillness all day while my housemates were at work.
I have access now to my parents’ kitchen (which is really nice to cook in) and to their exercise machine. I no longer have any excuse to be a blob attached to my computer chair! I used to tell myself that I could either write or I could be thin, but I didn’t have time to do both–this is probably going to be one of those things I look back and roll my eyes at later, like how I used to say I had to wait for inspiration to strike me before I sat down to write.
I’ve dipped my toes into revisions for THE IRON WOOD, and am bracing to dive in headfirst. I find revision to be a much more emotionally draining process than drafting, mostly because I’m constantly second-guessing my abilities and worth as a writer with each new problem I see. So I’m glad to be doing this when I can be simultaneously taking care of myself physically, so I’ll actually have the energy and disposition to get to work, as opposed to throwing myself off a bridge somewhere in dramatic fashion.
(I exaggerate. But only a little.)
The best thing is that I have been once more accepted by my overlord, and there is once more safety and order in my life. He’s a relatively kind master (at least to me) and has finally given up punishing me for running away for a year. He’s even now deigned to watch over me again while I sleep from the pillow next to me, and keep me writing by eying me fixedly all day from next to my desk. He’s a good overlord. <3
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My overlord likes to nap on my computer while I am trying to write.
Welcome home and good luck with the revisions.
Somehow mine learned at an early age not to get on my keyboard. Though I think it’s really just because he doesn’t like the feel of the keys under his paws. XD
Thanks!
Welcome home! Your overlord is beautiful 🙂
Thank you! I think he’s pretty much the most gorgeous thing ever, but then again, I’m biased. I am his slave, after all.
Welcome home again! I hope you adjust quickly…
Thanks! For once it’s been a fairly painless readjustment period. Thank goodness. 😛
Hi Meagan. Letting you know I posted your journey today! I’m trying to link it to your blog. No success yet!
Hope things are going well back in the US.
Denise<3
Thanks again for posting it! 🙂
How lovely that you got back home, hope you adjust and get into things there fast!
Thanks! It is really nice to be home. I miss Australia a LOT, but it’s also just good to be back in my native country, too.
Good luck with revisions.
Your overlord is a cutie.
Isn’t he though? I’m pretty biased, but he’s still a looker.
Thanks for the good revision wishes!
Hi Meagan, thanks for stopping by my blog today.
Dreams: I think you must be a bull with butterfly wings. Put you head down and charge on without distraction while maintaining a sensitive inquisitiveness that is close to childhood wonder.
Nancy
N. R. Williams, The Treasures of Carmelidrium
Hi Nancy!
I really like that. Wonderment, while charging full steam ahead. 🙂