Celebrate the challenge
Sep. 16th, 2024 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyJust got in from a church meeting that was a kind of audit of what we're doing well and where we have room to improve. It's really great to look at all the things we've done really well, and think of ways we can move the needle on the other stuff.
The vicar gave me a lift home and we were reflecting on the smaller congregations I've run. They're both great ideas and I'm very happy to do the lion's share of leading - but I'm not an ideas person. I can help make someone else's ideas come to life, and I can reuse ideas that I've seen work well in other contexts. But I lack the charisma I think you need. I'm more a lieutenant than a general, and it's an important thing to know about myself. I just haven't found the general who can gather the people to make the new thing fly.
I think I got whiplash from all the head changes in work, today. Every time I tried to settle to something, I got at least one and sometimes two things coming from outside that needed attention Right Now!!! I had to exercise my discipline switch to make sure I finished one thing before trying to tackle the other two or three things bouncing around on the edge of my vision. But I got the things done and moved some things I had planned to do today out to other days.
Rosie from Playstation Access was playing some of The Plucky Squire, earlier. I haven't watched it because I want to come to it fresh - but I'm sure she had an absolute ball with it :D
And I continued watching Quasimofo's LP of Ender Lilies. I am sooo glad I didn't continue with it. I would NOT have enjoyed the experience >D But watching someone play it who's more than half-decent at platforming is a pleasure.
Oh, and I've started Harding's character sheet. I have a very clear image of him in my head and I've written it down, but I'm not sure I'll use much of it in the actual novel. But I was looking up something about skin tones because at least two of my characters are WoC - and that made the point that you should describe white characters in the same way as black ones. It's something I normally shy away from because I want my readers to imagine the characters in ways that feel right to them. But I've kind of backed myself into a corner, I suppose...
Well, time for bed, perchance to dream.
The vicar gave me a lift home and we were reflecting on the smaller congregations I've run. They're both great ideas and I'm very happy to do the lion's share of leading - but I'm not an ideas person. I can help make someone else's ideas come to life, and I can reuse ideas that I've seen work well in other contexts. But I lack the charisma I think you need. I'm more a lieutenant than a general, and it's an important thing to know about myself. I just haven't found the general who can gather the people to make the new thing fly.
I think I got whiplash from all the head changes in work, today. Every time I tried to settle to something, I got at least one and sometimes two things coming from outside that needed attention Right Now!!! I had to exercise my discipline switch to make sure I finished one thing before trying to tackle the other two or three things bouncing around on the edge of my vision. But I got the things done and moved some things I had planned to do today out to other days.
Rosie from Playstation Access was playing some of The Plucky Squire, earlier. I haven't watched it because I want to come to it fresh - but I'm sure she had an absolute ball with it :D
And I continued watching Quasimofo's LP of Ender Lilies. I am sooo glad I didn't continue with it. I would NOT have enjoyed the experience >D But watching someone play it who's more than half-decent at platforming is a pleasure.
Oh, and I've started Harding's character sheet. I have a very clear image of him in my head and I've written it down, but I'm not sure I'll use much of it in the actual novel. But I was looking up something about skin tones because at least two of my characters are WoC - and that made the point that you should describe white characters in the same way as black ones. It's something I normally shy away from because I want my readers to imagine the characters in ways that feel right to them. But I've kind of backed myself into a corner, I suppose...
Well, time for bed, perchance to dream.
