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sexynetra · 8 months

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“Shut up. I wasn’t staring. I hate you.” She griped, a last ditch effort to keep her defenses up, but Anetra just snorted and cracked one eye open.

“No. You really don’t.” She smirked.

“I really don’t,” Marcia echoed gently, moving a wayward strand of hair out of Anetra’s face.

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The soft bites and licks had Marcia’s head swirling, and she knew that there would be marks afterward, but she couldn’t find it in herself to care.

“Do we have to worry about your roommate coming back anytime soon?” Anetra breathed out, trailing her kisses up Marcia’s throat and onto her jaw.

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neriad13 · 7 years

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Anyone else keep a Writing Strata™ or am I that weird?

It all started when I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out how to turn on Google Docs’ offline mode. I frequently write in places where the internet isn’t available and desperately need to be able to do that. Apparently it’s a lot more convoluted than it should be and at any rate, I still haven’t figured out how to do it. [Other reason for not doing so: Google Docs lags something awful when a documents gets to be over 20k words for some reason]

So. I ended up buying a little app called Calmly Writer. It’s basically a blank document with little in the way of user interface, meant to help writers write without distraction. Except that the saving in it isn’t terribly good. For whatever reason, if I click the “open” button, no matter how many documents I’ve saved, it shows me an empty folder. This is why I only have one document saved now, easily accessible from the drop-down menu.

It’s called “thing” and in it, I have written tens of thousands of words. I throw everything I’m working on in there. If I’m editing something, I copy-paste the part of my first draft that I’m working on in there. If I have a feeling I need to work through, I write a journal entry. If it’s a new short story, that’s where I bang it out before making a proper google doc for it. If I need to make note of something relevant to a story, I just stick it in there as well. Once something’s finished, I take it out and paste it in its own document or wherever it’s supposed to go.

But if something doesn’t get finished? Well, it just kinda sits there, layer upon layer of other story or other vent or nonsensical notes building up on top of it like layers of sediment.

Currently, my Strata™ is about 10000 words long and has about five different things going on at once in it. This summer really hasn’t been a good season for writing for me. Work’s been draining, I’ve been having a lot of trouble focusing but have still felt the impulse to write, so I’ve been doing a lot of little things but haven’t really been having the time to finish any of them.

This weekend I glanced at the wordcount and went “Okay, whatever’s in here, I’m going through it NOW.”

It’s like digging through the ages of the earth.

Oh, it’s that weird writing exercise I’ve been trying to do for two weeks. Finished, finally.

Here’s a detailed description of a story idea that I don’t have time to write yet. Better paste it in the relevant collection for later,

Oh boy. Did I write that drabble last month? Eh...it’s almost done. Just throw in one more scene and call it a first draft.

An essay meant to introduce my mom to the socio-political world of Fallout...

...which was meant to go with a short story that I never finished editing.

A to-do list outlining what I was supposed to be writing over Summer. Ah ha. Ahahaha...

A list of editing notes for my longfic...

...and finally, the part of the longfic itself that I got stuck on editing some three months ago. -.-

This is my life.

#a thought #my writing

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dena2nz-blog · 7 years

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Day 4: Planning Only Gets You So Far

I should have expected more unexpecteds. Guess my intellect is not as thoroughly modern as I thought (see quote of the day below).

Most of you are well aware that I’m a vigilant planner. I love researching well in advance (as opposite of a procrastinator as you can get) and preparing for scenarios A, B, C and D (just in case). I relish in knowing the answer before the question is asked. It’s borderline psychotic.

So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that in the lead up to my move I had google docs and spreadsheets and budgets and timelines and file folders full of color copies and extra print outs of required personal documents and completed forms galore. I strategically calendared out these first few days with various errands to set up my life here. I felt confident that I knew what I was doing - and that’s always when life laughs at you.

To date there have been 3 unexpected curve balls thrown my way:

1. Couldn’t get my NZ Drivers License (yet). As a US driver I don’t need to take a written or behind the wheel driving test in NZ to get a drivers license. This struck me as odd since they drive on the other side of the road, but I’ll take it! I got in line at the AA (Automobile Association) office with a color copy of my CA license, color copy of my passport, completed DL-5 form, cash on hand to pay the fee, and glasses on ready to take the eye exam only to be told to come back in October - unless I wanted to take the written and behind the wheel exams (no, thank you). Why October you ask? Because my license expired in 2015, and when the DMV sent my new license in Oct 2015 this is the date that reads as the issue date. NZ requires you to have had your overseas license at least 2 years before you can convert it into a NZ license. Despite having my license for nearly 20 years, because my CA license reads an issue date of Oct 2015, I’m out of luck. Bummer. I got over that one relatively quickly since I can legally drive here on my foreign license for 1 year. I did want an official NZ ID though. Oh well.

2. Last name shenanigans at the bank. Today I went to finally activate my bank account which I set up from the States and transferred $$ into before I left. There I was thinking I was all on top of it again only to have to wait 4 days to access it (not the original plan). But that was only the first little hiccup on the banking front. This morning I go to my 10 am appointment and it was clear that they didn’t have me calendared. Luckily, they are crazy friendly and nice here in NZ so they saw me anyway. (Thank you, Cresa) The big freak out of my day happened when they needed to verify my identity to activate the account. Again, all necessary paperwork was neatly organized and ready for inspection - EXCEPT my passport lists my last name with spaces between the 3 words (De La Peza - as it should read) BUT my overseas bank account statement lists my name without spaces. Apparently, this created a BIG problem. I’ll spare you the details of my morning calling my partner back home to have him dig through our file cabinet for an acceptable statement that showed my name with spaces. Needless to say, it worked out in the end. I just spent my whole day in CBD and more hours than I wanted at the bank. (Again, grateful they were so nice to me)

3. Damn IRD number. Lastly, and still ongoing, I have yet to get my IRD number (equivalent to a SSN). In fact, I haven’t even applied for it yet :O This is my tax ID number and I need it for a lot of stuff at work - including getting paid (!!!) but apparently also to get my work laptop and phone issued to me. You can’t apply for your IRD number until after your bank account is activated and shows at least 1 deposit transaction and 1 withdrawal transaction. I thought since I activated my account (eventually) today, transferred $ in, and then took some cash out, I could go straight to the Post Office (where you submit your IRD application) and check this last lingering, very important to-do off my list. But foiled again. You have to wait 1 day from those qualifying transactions (I didn’t read this in the fine print anywhere) so I have to go back to the bank tomorrow (I guess at my lunch break since I start work before the bank opens), get my statement showing this activity printed out, have the banker stamp my IRD application verifying my account is active, and then go to the Post Office and send that sucker off. After that I get to wait 8-10 business days. Meh.

Ok, that’s enough of all that but wanted to make sure I paint a real picture of what is involved in moving to a new country. It won’t all be peaceful meditative walks through lush green parks.

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