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Bleary, 2, 8, 14

Hey Suede! I’m going to do these one at a time because I’m starting on my phone while waiting for my kids, but will probably want a real keyboard for the last one.

2. I pretty much wrote Bleary in order for the first two thirds, and then skipped around a bit as I was finishing it up. So the first scene I wrote was that 3 a.m. phone conversation in chapter 1… Which turned out to be the first of many 3 a.m. conversations, as well as the first of many times Chris says “Fuck” while stumbling around half asleep. Even now, if I need to get my head back into those characters, I start with that conversation.

Writing is hard

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suedescripture:

I’m giving myself permission NOT to write. I have closed out of all ten of my docs (mostly chapters of Pinto Princess and a couple of one shots) that habitually stay open all the time, glaring at me.

I was smart this year and don’t have any actively posting WIPs. The next couple of months are historically stressful as fuck already without the guilt trips associated with knowing people are waiting for an update and feeling both like a failure and an asshole when I have to remind people what time of year it is and that life is extra lifey right now. This is precisely why I don’t do challenges like BB or whatever (seriously people, why do all of these happen at the worst time of year?) I give you all kudos who do, because I just… I can’t right now.

I despise the holidays largely because they make humanity go batshit fucking insane and all I want to do is hibernate in a cabin far far away from civilization until the crazies crawl back to their hellholes. I’m a scrooge because I work a service job and people think I can do magic and have a time machine, but when they find out I don’t and I can’t, they get unreasonably nasty. I’m going to break a fucking crown one of these days trying not to tell them exactly where they can shove a rusty railroad spike (seriously, my dentist told me to stop grinding so much because I’m wearing down about $4000 worth of dental work).

Plus, I haven’t been productive for the past couple weeks anyway, and literally all I do in my off-time is stare at my WIPs all day and I have zero inspiration or ideas and nothing happens, so I continue feeling like a fucking failure.

So unless my muse actually shows itself, I’m off the clock. Imma read all y’alls stuff, imma color, play the stack of video games I rarely touch, watch netflix and chill.

*offers hugs* I feel this on a spiritual level. Although I’m clearly not smart, as I have several ongoing WIPs and I did the BB. But after the past few hellish weeks, I’m not going to stress too much about getting shit done before the year’s out. That can wait until January.

Take care of yourself! It is a stressful time of year, and writing requires inspiration that stress can completely erase at times. We’ll be here to read your stuff when you’re ready to return to it. I think I’m done for a while, too, now that PBB is posted. Need to RL. And may your shoppers be gentle…

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suedescripture replied to your post:I watched “Z for Zachariah” last night…

It had a pretty limited theatrical release, less than 40 screens US, plus VOD. I’m not even sure how that factors in these days, but limited release movies never make much.

Well, that certainly helps explain it.  I was just thinking that if that was gross, it had to still be significantly in the red…  I imagine Pie made more than that on the film himself…

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winterstar95:

Someone please send me the new xkit fix, mine has decided to die on me. Please send directions on how to do it as well. Thank you!!!!!!

SAAAAAAAAAAAAME! OMG I HATE THIS

Guys, it’s old Xkit that’s not working. New Xkit still works. 

Sooo… what is this xkit and why should I download it?  I just use basic tumblr, and though there are things I don’t love, it’s serviceable.  But I know enough people who use skit to be curious about what I’m missing.

If you don’t hate basic Tumblr you might not need it? But it’s a site extension that makes Tumblr, for me, a vaguely more tolerable platform. I linked to new Xkit in my reblog; old Xkit was created by The Xkit Guy before he was witchhunted off Tumblr for no good reason, because we can’t have nice things on this godforsaken website. New Xkit picked up where he left off, essentially, but it needs to be installed separately. Now some of the old Xkit stuff is expiring, which is why people are getting error messages/their settings are no longer working.

Hmm.  Thanks.  and poor Xkit Guy.

There are a ton of features; better to just poke around and figure out what would be useful to you. I like post block, the blacklist, quick tags, and the Xkit messaging features (aka having an outbox.)

Atooooooo. I mean, if you can tolerate a lot of stuff, you might be fine without it. But Blacklist (all the shit you don’t want to see, nearly abolished). Timestamps (see how long ago something was posted). Postblock (annoying post everyone is reblogging for some fucking reason? it goes away forever). Read More Now (no clicking through three times to read a thing!), Post Shorten, oh my god (for all those novel length fucking posts that people did not use the goddamn read more function on). All of these things make it a more tolerable place.

I’m just dying for a new phone app, because the current Xkit App is abandoned and totally useless now.

Oh, excellent!  It’s like all the things I am annoyed by (lack of time stamps on a daily basis).  Thanks for the info!  I’m definitively getting it now.