WEEKLY CHECK-IN: Tickety boxes and a couple of questions

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1824744]

Now that you've started hyperventilating thinking about your story, are any particular songs coming to mind, like "Please release me (Let me go)" or "A Whumping hunting we will go?"

Any particular writing/vidding/drawing survival must-haves at your house? I have to drink pots and pots of tea (probably explains why I always have the lads consuming copious amounts) and my mate Cherry has to listen to the Bee Gees... don't ask.

Or, if none of this foolishness appeals to you, feel free to just check-in and let us know how it's going.
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Comments

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

I start at the beginning and write till I reach the end, although sometimes I have to go back and add or change scenes later if I missed something.

Also, I don't drink caffeine or listen to music. Seem to be the minority in that....

Best of luck! Glad it's going well. :D

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

You may have noticed from some of the comments here that the English in general consider tea less a writing necessity and more a life necessity... and I'm not talking about this American iced tea nonsense. :D

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Here now, what's wrong with iced tea? It's brilliant on a really hot day.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I shall quote my mother on the subject: Iced tea is an abomination and a sin against god.

Yes, she's where I get my sense of humour, thanks for noticing. *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Well, I love it either way. So there.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Ah, obviously one of those colonial types. *g*

If you grew up on hot tea and never tasted Southern sweet tea until you were an adult it's just. Plain. Weird.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I grew up in the North and would never have had a tea experience if not for my best friend in HS. Her mum was from the UK and we had tea there every afternoon (plus other British goodies). That's where I got my love of hot tea and sweet juicy oranges. Plus back then imported biscuits were a rare treat. I loved seeing her bring out the tin from her family back home. There was never a tea bag in my Italian coffee drinking house, I can't remember when I first drank iced tea but I was certainly not at home! :)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I was in Ohio, my first day in America. Someone asked if I'd like some tea. I said yes please and was handed a tall glass full of brown water and ice. I was surprised, to say the least, and it tasted awful.

One of our neighbours kept an eye on our house when I went home at Christmas and we brought him back a large box of English chocolates. He, his wife and his three kids have all mentioned them every time I've seen them since. *g*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

I'm horrified at you mum's feelings about iced tea. *g* Made properly it can be nectar of the gods on a hot day.

*g* Mums are very good for passing on the humour gene.

[marjorammax.livejournal.com]

God, I've just realised how stereotypically English I am. I can't live without tea (definately hot, not iced), and I find myself talking about the weather all the time. The trouble is I can't talk about my love of all things Pros and m/m because the people I know wouldn't understand, so the weather is a nice easy topic. Even my husband tells me I have a problem. Have I? ;)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm English, but I live in America and it took coming here to realize how totally tea dependent I was. :D

Oh, and I still talk about the weather all the time, it's just that those chats now involve hurricanes and tornadoes as well.

No, you don't have a problem, particularly as you now have people to chat with about these very important subjects.