[Check-In]
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Just a check in this week. ^_^ (Relax, if you need to.)
This is a check-in post! You do not have to check in if you don't want to and there are no requirements for what you need to check in with. This is your space, so have at!
Feel free to talk about success, frustration, current projects, nagging projects, exciting projects, and everything else going on.
If you have a deadline, you can do it! If you need a deadline, they're available.
This is a check-in post! You do not have to check in if you don't want to and there are no requirements for what you need to check in with. This is your space, so have at!
Feel free to talk about success, frustration, current projects, nagging projects, exciting projects, and everything else going on.
If you have a deadline, you can do it! If you need a deadline, they're available.
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Date: 2017-02-15 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-02-15 09:54 pm (UTC)Hopefully I can keep going because it feels good.
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Date: 2017-02-15 09:59 pm (UTC)To aid my goal to be more consistent in my output, I've also entered The Prose's weekly story contest. Every Wednesday, they release a challenge prompt and, when the judges select a winner, the winner receives a cash prize (about $100-200 in US dollars).
I didn't win the last time around, but I'll be entering the new one they've posted up today. Reaching for a goal--even if you have to bribe yourself a little--is always a good thing. :)
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Date: 2017-02-16 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-15 11:08 pm (UTC)because the world needs yet more old-school D&D mechanics haand I worked a lot on leveling dudes and getting story bits in mobile-game land.I'm thinking of signing up for
Hopefully I can get some writing bits attacked this weekend instead, but aaaaaah my Vidar model kit arrived ~~~~
8333
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Date: 2017-02-16 11:46 pm (UTC)(alas, a Gundam exchange would probably be a disaster all around...)
*grins*
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Date: 2017-02-17 02:03 am (UTC)(on so many levels, yes. alas.)
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Date: 2017-02-16 11:48 pm (UTC)I feel like I'm reaching for a very similar goal and want to get back to a similar place. We can do it!
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Date: 2017-02-22 11:34 pm (UTC)Writing check in
Date: 2017-02-16 12:41 am (UTC)What's going wrong is that I was writing a minific for a prompt on my Magpie Monday, where I accept prompts and write replies...
The bleeping thing will likely cross 10k words if I don't find a way to gut 90% of the PLOT elements which have cropped up in the 1500 words of setting up for the original KEY scene.
ACK!
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Date: 2017-02-17 12:04 am (UTC)Could you turn it into a series of minifics to write at a slower pace?
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Date: 2017-02-17 12:50 am (UTC)Sorry. but the last time I posted non-fiction commentary on my blog was January 7th. The "Magpie Monday" is a request for prompts, and the "Poetry Fishbowl Linkback" is a story by someone else posted in return for signal boosts. Other than that, it's a LONG string of interconnected short stories already.
The problem-child prompt fill DID turn out quite large, but it's not the only one: the shortest fill was 1800 words and change, another 3100 and change, and getting that problem child in under 6k was MIRACULOUS. And, I do believe, it has a coherent, stable plot!
I have barely started writing today, but I am VERY excited to add... yet another short story in the string of interconnected ones!
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Date: 2017-02-16 01:35 am (UTC)(Also I started casually writing a deeply inadvisable Mary Sue fic that will probably never see the light of day, but hey, it's words!)
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Date: 2017-02-16 11:57 pm (UTC)(Even if it's permanent drawer-fic, it's still fun and good practice!)
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Date: 2017-02-16 11:50 pm (UTC)If you can, try scheduling a block of time just for words? A 'nothing else allowed' hour or two, relax, and write. ^_^
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Date: 2017-02-17 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-16 03:42 am (UTC)Getting the "list" together has helped. I always had the bingo cards but I'd have to go and look at each - now with checklists setup in trello, I can see which prompts I have still open all in one place. I've also made an action plan to finish up some of the old bingo cards that fall under amnesty.
Sadly I haven't learned not too sign up for more stuff:
This week I added:
1 bingo card
1 fic exchange (fandom5k)
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Date: 2017-02-16 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-16 05:11 am (UTC)Frustration: Real life is really killing my mojo. I want to bury myself under the bedsheets and stay there forever. Kind of hard to write when you're burrito'd by stress. But it'll be easier now, with no deadlines to worry about.
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Date: 2017-02-16 10:47 pm (UTC)And yay for working on things, gift things, and fun weird niche stuff. ^_^
(the reception to my chocolate box output suggests there is indeed a hungry audience for some of what I thought was weird niche stuff, so I am sure you'll get happy readers!)
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Date: 2017-02-16 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-16 10:43 pm (UTC)I have at least one NYR fic I want to write... I should get on that too!no subject
Date: 2017-02-16 08:38 am (UTC)my evenings of just laying around and doing shitty sketches is also going pretty well? i sound facetious but i mean it.
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Date: 2017-02-16 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-16 07:01 pm (UTC)I did finally get back to writing and filled a buttload of Firefly drabble prompts today. That was nice even though I'd told myself no more fanfic for a while.
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Date: 2017-02-16 10:13 pm (UTC)You can always make some notes on what you want to fiddle with, set them aside for a week or so, and then come back to them with a clear head.
\o/ (Sometimes, I think the words choose us~)
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Date: 2017-02-17 12:23 am (UTC)That's probably exactly what I'll do. Thanks!
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Date: 2017-02-18 02:56 am (UTC)/vent over
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