Marginalia (8), or, Getting Inside The Gator

One of the problems of being a writer is in
identifying "time off." If the book is always
running in your head, niggling at your brain,
you're never quite altogether present to
the people you're with.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Today's word is "gasconading": to brag, bluff, boast.

Use in a sentence, please?

Autobiographies of Civil War Generals are often full of
gasconading.

Just sayin'. ;)

These can be like watching a car crash in slow motion.
You know eventually such utter self-delusion is going to
run smack into relative historical truth, and the result
is going to be pieces of self-image splattered all over
the pages of countless non-fiction books arguing whether
said general was a plaster saint, or the devil incarnate.

As for fiction... well, that's why it's called fiction.

*evil grin*

Some words got written this week. Not enough, but some.
Time got eaten by living people, rather than the dead.
(Look, I am grateful for friends, but I'm one of those
weird people who needs sleep on top of everything else.
Which would you rather me have - balance, or my sanity?
I'll settle for one. What I can't cope with is neither.)

However, the outline got some very helpful annotations
which I hope will lead to mo' better words down the pike.
Plus I'm figuring out how to concentrate the research to
lead to a kiloword or two of original writing most days.

Now if I could accomplish that every day, for 200+ days?
I would be a lot farther along than I am. *rolls eyes*

But seriously, I need boundaries -- even artificial ones --
or I get daunted. Don't ask me how it's going -- I'm all too
likely to tell you before I stop myself from babbling on. :/
For the time being it's all practice, yet it's becoming real;
it's all moving along slowly, but somehow; and it's all good.
Except where it's still bad. But even that, can get better.

Dear Characters,
I'm hearing some of you loud and clear. If the rest
of you could speak up? Er, not all at once, please!
Ow! My ears! And I can't type that fast, dammit...
thx,
Aspiring Novelista

Writers aren't exactly people.... they're a
whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald