Month: May 2019

Musings

[Blog] Tanner and Miranda Update Schedule

Faith Hakimian

So! While I don’t have my official day-to-day/week-to-week schedule yet, as I’m still doing training, what I do have is a whole bunch of free time desperately in need of structure. I also have the skeleton of the whole volume of Tanner and Miranda stories, which is just as desperately in need of actually being fleshed out and, you know, finished.

It’s a perfect match.

From here on out, with “out” being the completion of the project, is to give you guys weekly updates during these Friday blog posts. Some weeks I’ll probably end up musing about one thing or another and just tacking on my updated word count at the end. Some weeks I’ll probably have an excerpt or two– we’ll see! With any luck, I should be able to finally get back into the habit of daily writing that I wasn’t able to keep up this last year, and with that I should also be able to finally make progress on actually finishing this story!

Tanner and Miranda Stories
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Total Draft Wordcount*: 3715

* Calculated in Scrivener

Musings

[Blog] Sleep Deprivation and Pocket Universes

Faith Hakimian

Can I just go on record saying that 24-hour shifts are weird? It’s like you enter a different world… a pocket universe of sorts inside the rest of your life. It’s more than a little disorienting, and to tell you the truth, the only reason I know what day it is has to do with the calendar on the wall and the handy little date that my phone displays. Go figure.

And, I’m afraid that’s all for this week, between the sleep deprivation (yes, I did get some sleep during the shift. Just not as much as usual, and that is, unfortunately, saying something) and everything else, my brain is pretty well fried. That being said, my available free time has just increased by several orders of magnitude, so look forward to seeing some more news on Tanner and Miranda’s continuing adventures soon!

Musings

[Blog] Murphy’s Law Plotting

Faith Hakimian

I’ve spent my writing time this week trying to figure out how to harness Murphy’s Law for the next Tanner and Miranda story. It’s been so much fun, and and has mostly involved me writing lists for the plot with what should happen on one side and what actually happens on the other. I’ve also been cackling the entire time, which has drawn a few strange looks and worried glances, but oh well. At the risk of drawing even more worried glances, it’s been a rewarding process, and I’m excited to see the result of this embrace of absurdity.

Musings

[Blog] On the Existence of Roller Coasters

Faith Hakimian

If you will, take a moment to think about roller coasters. And more specifically, to think about what the mere fact of their existence says about us humans. We have built hundreds of these tangled behemoths of wood and steel, attached carts to them, and engineered ways of strapping ourselves to those carts for the sole purpose of making ourselves go really, really fast while doing crazy loops. All because it’s fun. And because some of us really like the hit of adrenaline we get when all of our senses are suddenly convinced that we are in mortal danger (but not really).

We humans are funny creatures.

In other news, I got to go to Magic Mountain last week. Apparently, I giggle when scared.

Musings

[Blog] Change

Faith Hakimian

So, this week, I got a new job. Or rather, provided I get all the necessary paperwork and certifications renewed, I got a new job. This means several things, foremost in my mind being the fact that I’m going to spend the next few weeks in a chaotic flurry that may or may not involve braving the California DMV multiple times. (Oh, joy!) It also means that my carefully curated routines are about to get turned on their heads. (Oh, double joy!) But it also– sarcasm and low-key panic aside– also means that I’m going to, I hope, be doing something that is another step closer to the emergency medicine career that I’ve been moving towards for several years now. Moving slowly, granted, but moving nonetheless. And all panic and flailing against change aside, that’s pretty cool. Terrifying, but pretty darn cool.

Plus, if I’m really lucky and I get to do three twelve hour shifts (oh please oh please oh please oh please…), I’m going to have a whole bunch more time I can use for writing.