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★ I achieved my goal of finishing A Thing and posting it by the end of October. I had the fic drafted earlier in the month but editing and managing my own anxiety around both writing and sharing it took up, well, the rest of October, lol. But at least i got over it within my self-imposed deadline. Two years ago, I don't think I'd have done that.
★ I have been thinking about where want to spend my internet time this month. I was pretty happy at the beginning of October when I was focused on meeting word count goals and occasionally screaming half-formed opinions into the unseen void that is this blog. I dropped off in the second half of October, and while a lot of that was due to a real-life work emergency, some of it was also due to ...becoming numb to the way fandom activity occurs on Twitter. There is just so much being shoved into your eyeballs at all times that at a certain point you just look at stuff without it making any sort of impact on you. Trying to curate your feed feels like a lost cause, i'm never remotely happy with the results. it's just become easier to not look at my feed at all then try to work it into something i like seeing again.
So I want to use the time and energy i was spending on Twitter shitposts on something actually enjoyable...i just don't know what that entails, yet. it might mean more fandom oriented posts here, it might be trying to make a home over on pillowfort (...eh) it might mean trying to use discord as a community tool instead of ignoring it. i dunno.
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writethisfanfic. I've never used an outline for fic before, but some of the ideas i'm working out are too complicated for me to just freeform through, especially as I've started to write scenes out-of-sequence. I don't think I'll have anything in a finished, post-worthy state at the end of the month but getting one fic to rough draft status would be great.
★ I have been thinking about where want to spend my internet time this month. I was pretty happy at the beginning of October when I was focused on meeting word count goals and occasionally screaming half-formed opinions into the unseen void that is this blog. I dropped off in the second half of October, and while a lot of that was due to a real-life work emergency, some of it was also due to ...becoming numb to the way fandom activity occurs on Twitter. There is just so much being shoved into your eyeballs at all times that at a certain point you just look at stuff without it making any sort of impact on you. Trying to curate your feed feels like a lost cause, i'm never remotely happy with the results. it's just become easier to not look at my feed at all then try to work it into something i like seeing again.
So I want to use the time and energy i was spending on Twitter shitposts on something actually enjoyable...i just don't know what that entails, yet. it might mean more fandom oriented posts here, it might be trying to make a home over on pillowfort (...eh) it might mean trying to use discord as a community tool instead of ignoring it. i dunno.
★ I committed to finishing a rough draft for at least one more fic and getting through an outline for another at
writethisfanfic. I've never used an outline for fic before, but some of the ideas i'm working out are too complicated for me to just freeform through, especially as I've started to write scenes out-of-sequence. I don't think I'll have anything in a finished, post-worthy state at the end of the month but getting one fic to rough draft status would be great.
