[Check-In]

[kalloway]

I caught this week and I'm holding on tight!


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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[doranwen]

My life kinda went insane in the last few weeks - it took till now for me to even *read* last week's post! But I've appreciated having this space to come and post about what I'm doing, because the other people on my usual chats don't always want to hear my ramble about what I've done or not done writing-wise, lol. So hopefully there will be a community to continue that, or someone who wants to take over as admin/mod, perhaps.

And I feel satisfied that I have at least managed to finish my one open exchange assignment (nice and early! was the first fic in the collection, even), and I'm signed up for Yuletide (and have already found letters in the app for two fandoms I can totally write and am offering). Plus I've been following a new fandom I nominated for Yuletide (the TV show FBI) and am getting excited for it, so I'm happy.

Didn't manage to get any WIPs finished recently (all I did was start *three* of them for Rookie Blue, lol - though I have posted some short ficlets to an ep-related "fic" that I hope to continue when I have time - 74 total eps and I've done ficlets for 7 so far, some drabbles, some longer)…

But I did create a WIP master post! https://doranwen.dreamwidth.org/2018/10/09/
I'll keep it updated with any new WIPs I created, as well as current wordcount, and it's somewhere I can point prospective betas to. If anyone likes it and wants to beta (mostly characterization/plotting with a little flow), they can read the current snippets and make their decision based on that.

The rest of my life got sucked into job and work-related black holes. And lack of sleep due to all of that. But there is light at the end of that tunnel… so I'm celebrating that.

[kalloway]

Yay for everything you've gotten done! \o/

And thank you. As we get closer to the end of the year, I'm going to encourage everyone to post other writing-related places they hang out at (if you do discord at all, there's a Yuletide discord with writing channels) to fill the little gap this place will leave.

[doranwen]

I know about the Yuletide discord (I'm a tagmod for Yuletide - that was part of the insanity in the last few weeks, lol, as we went through thousands of nominations) but I've never been able to bring myself to use it - I took a look at Discord and couldn't stand the fact that one couldn't turn off ALL emojis. (I think most emojis are ugly, except for the Apple ones, which of course one can't use unless on Apple devices.) That and part of the color scheme stays dark even if you switch the chat part to light, and I really don't care for light-colored stuff. So I don't really use it. I'm from the old school IRC group, so there's a handful of us who still hang out on IRC and chat about anything and everything there - and of course there's the Yuletide tagmod Slack that we use to coordinate with, and chat all year long on. It's just sometimes nice to post to people who don't hear one talk about it all the time, and see what others are up to. :)

So yeah, I guess I'd suggest people come to the Yuletide IRC so there are more of us chatting. :)