sunfright | wednesday.

A SINGLE DANCE, song by Laura Mo (translated by me)

I wonder if I've seen you before.
Somewhere in a dream.
I don't know if I dare to hold your hand.

Never am I going to forget those words and that look,
Your courage and your voice - my heart is yours!

And I am never again going to fall,
Now that you exist within me.
Because I have waited so long
For an angel like you.

Even if I wander alone at night
Along a dreamless, restless road,
I now have a hope that someday on my way
I will get to have a single dance with you.

Somewhere in a dream,
You stay by me.
You're holding my hand,
When I think of you.

Never am I going to forget that hair and that mouth,
I will never be the same again - now I'm forever young!

And I am never again going to fall,
Now that you exist within me.
Because I have waited so long
For an angel like you.

Even if I wander alone at night
Along a dreamless, restless road,
I now have a hope that someday on my way,
I will get to have a single dance with you.

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HJALLERUP KRO (Danish cover of Chelsea Hotel #2) - Laura Mo.

I have followed Laura Mo in her musical career since she came out with her first album back in 2009, the same year I moved away from home. The first thing I did after having installed my things in my new room was to march downtown and buy the album, "Alkymi/Alchemy" and that album remains, maybe for nostalgic reasons, my favourite, although more recent stuff has gotten much more traction and much deserved fan response. This is a cover I think she did in 2012, at least I heard in when I saw her perform that year. Leonard Cohen and Laura Mo are a God-given combination.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN RL
As November draws nearer, so does my Very Important Disability Meeting, which is on the 17th, so right now I'm probably doing what you'd call "hanging on" and just "surviving". I've finally settled on an idea for NaNo and will be working with that starting next week, as a way to distract myself from the inevitable meeting drawing closer, like a looming giant.

But honestly? I am shit and things are shitty and I'm just trying to stay afloat. Writing is currently my main means of doing so. And even that is difficult not to lose sight of. Luckily my gf is being immensely good to me, spoiling me rotten and bearing with me when I get triggered and difficult. Someone give this lady a medal.

And then give me one too, because I'm soldiering on and doing whatever I can to stay sane.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN FANDOM
I have spent the past three weeks going through approx. 1000 ideas for what I wanted to write for NaNo. It had to be big enough of an idea not to run out of steam halfway and lightweight enough that I wouldn't get discouraged, well, halfway.

It hit me this morning. I had to go into this unprepared, the pantser method, and just start writing, to see where it would take me. I have the barebones idea for what I'm doing. It's a fanfiction cross-over between the ballet, Giselle and the Takarazuka musical, Lucifer's Tears, where the two main female characters meet and fall in love, changing the course of both their lives by doing so. They will not only share a heart, but they will escape or put off the time of their death. It is a life-saving, life-changing romance, complete with historical notes as it'll take place in the early 20th century.

I'm going to track my own process here on DW, having made a community to post write-alongs (logs), writing progress and goals, inspirational posts, research and notes as well as excerpts from what I'm working on. It's over at

yourheartmine and everyone's welcome to read along, nothing's privatized.

For now I'm just going to wait and built and get ready for next week.

Anyone else here doing NaNo?