Game Day and Other Writing Stuff
Mar. 23rd, 2008 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusI think I found the best Nine/Rose vid on youtube ever today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyFUNPsY5c So perfectly edited and matching the music and emotionally it packs a punch and makes me happy to see the depth of their relationship conveyed this way, but very sad at the same time. It was beautiful.
Yesterday was so long. I'd forgotten how long game days can be at the soccer park. At least I didn't forget how bloody cold they can be. I packed blankets and we sure needed them. The wind just rips through you there in the early part of the spring season. The games went fairly well. Tobais' team lost but they held it together fairly well. The boys need to learn to be a bit more agressive in following the ball. They tend to just kick it and watch it go. The team we were playing had some "taught" bad habits that I've seen before at about this grade level. Ankle snaking is the worst. That gets trounced on by about the 4th or 5th grade, but it always seems like the refs are not expecting it at the younger levels and so don't watch for it. And that's where it frequently crops up.
Ankle snaking is when the coach teaches a kid how to trip another kid on the soccer field but make it seem like an accident. You place your ankle just inside the other kid;s and then stop sharply. The other kid, of course, trips and you now have possession of the ball. If caught, you have to sit out the rest of the game. If caught. These are not habits the kids pick up on their own and it comes out of the same two districts every single time I've seen it. Very frustrating because it's cheating and I don't like seeing it, especially with ages 7 to 9. It teaches them bad sportsmanship.
Rose's team won 8 to 0. Seems like a slaughter but it wasn't really. The other team fought hard, they just didn't have a passing game or play their positions and you can't win like that. I felt sorry for the other team to a certain extent, but of course, I'm thrilled that our girls started off the season so well.
I'm planning on spending much time today writing. I'm so close to finishing Wolf Moon and it feels like a huge accomplishment. It also feels kind of sad to me that it's almost over. I don't want to say good-bye to it. I love it. Oh, I know the story will continue in the sequel Hunger Moon, but...it's like letting go of a friend who's moving away. You can always visit, but it's not the same as living with them in your life on a daily basis.
The opening scene for Hunger Moon came into my head last night. It really made me smile. It's from the Alt!TARDIS' point of view. And she's a bit indignant. I hope the chapter turns out funny. It ought to be, but it's hard to tell with things like that.
I'm going to try to finish up the rewrite of Take it Back today. I hope to get to Wolf Moon as well, but I don't know. Depends on which one wants to do the driving.
Ankle snaking is when the coach teaches a kid how to trip another kid on the soccer field but make it seem like an accident. You place your ankle just inside the other kid;s and then stop sharply. The other kid, of course, trips and you now have possession of the ball. If caught, you have to sit out the rest of the game. If caught. These are not habits the kids pick up on their own and it comes out of the same two districts every single time I've seen it. Very frustrating because it's cheating and I don't like seeing it, especially with ages 7 to 9. It teaches them bad sportsmanship.
Rose's team won 8 to 0. Seems like a slaughter but it wasn't really. The other team fought hard, they just didn't have a passing game or play their positions and you can't win like that. I felt sorry for the other team to a certain extent, but of course, I'm thrilled that our girls started off the season so well.
I'm planning on spending much time today writing. I'm so close to finishing Wolf Moon and it feels like a huge accomplishment. It also feels kind of sad to me that it's almost over. I don't want to say good-bye to it. I love it. Oh, I know the story will continue in the sequel Hunger Moon, but...it's like letting go of a friend who's moving away. You can always visit, but it's not the same as living with them in your life on a daily basis.
The opening scene for Hunger Moon came into my head last night. It really made me smile. It's from the Alt!TARDIS' point of view. And she's a bit indignant. I hope the chapter turns out funny. It ought to be, but it's hard to tell with things like that.
I'm going to try to finish up the rewrite of Take it Back today. I hope to get to Wolf Moon as well, but I don't know. Depends on which one wants to do the driving.
