yay for writing!
It felt so fucking good, punk! I considered asking you to beta, but I don’t think it’s your ship, and I also think that submissions are “anonymous” for voting, and then owned after “winners” are announced. So sharing it ahead of time is probably not allowed. But I feel like a winner regardless, just for submitting.
It’s a particularly low energy day for me today, not helped by a lingering headache. But I’m going to try to get some writing done now.
Anyone else writing?
I’ve basically been crap at this after the first week…illness kids, work… the usual. But I’ve been watching your progress and am actually really impressed. So don’t be too hard on yourself. Now that my backup is done I need to work, but I could try sprinting science writing…
Don’t be too hard on yourself either – you’ve had a lot on your plate. ❤ And I’m up for sprinting whenever. 🙂
Actually, sprinting won’t really work, since I’m reading a paper, adding a few sentences to my document, reading another paper, and so on. But I am working on this report, so if it helps your writing to know that, we can check in now and again.
you’re doing god’s work, ato
😀 About 900 words today, and they still aren’t going at it. And I need to go to bed… but progress
Thank you! And YES! I’m finally back from vacation and through my first of back to back conferences, Oy. Time to sort out this chapter again.
Yeah!!!!!!
😀 yay!
1400! WOOO! That’s awesome! Proud of you, ato! 😀
Thanks! I’m still going…just keep swimming…just keep swimming.
You mean someday I’ll be done with Cleaving? (Just kidding…my goal is around xmas…we’ll see).
Honestly I don’t know. A few months back I was asked about stories lost in the void...things I have abandoned or have been thinking about but not written. What I should probably do next is finish Home. After that post, I had someone volunteer as beta, and read Home plus what I’d written so far to finish it. Assuming she’s still interested, I should do that. There’s hardly any left, I have over 30k words written, and the original remains abandoned…and it’s so good, it deserves an ending, even if it’s only mine.
I still get ideas about Pinto Disaster, and occasionally about expanding Compromised or writing a kinky next entry to the Assumptions/Revelations/Weight of a Gaze ‘verse.
But I’ve also been thinking a lot about a 00q fic. So that might happen.
In short, no real plans, but several amorphous ideas, and one thing that I should just finish already, dammit!
13. hardest character to write. I think maybe Bleary!Zach. I wrote all of Bleary from Chris’ perspective. I had a pretty strong sense of what Zach was going through and what his concerns and motivations were, but I wasn’t in his head. I think maybe one of the subsequent shorts was from his perspective (The Other 364), but that’s really it. So when I switched to him for Cleaving, which really had to be from his POV, I think it’s taken me a while to find his voice, and I’m not sure it’s as strong as I wish it were, even now when the story’s almost finished.
30. hardest part of writing. Finding time to do it when I’m not fucking exhausted. Sorry, but it’s really true. I work full time, have two kids, am PTA president, and have social engagements with friends and family. And a husband I enjoy spending time with occasionally when we can both set aside our other obligations. I feel bad for my readers that they have to wait a month or more for chapters, but that’s just my life right now. Writing comes last in the list of priorities. It’s my hobby, and by the time I get to it in the evening, sometimes all I have the energy to do is tumble or read.
38. do you reread your own stories? If someone starts commenting on a story that I wrote a while ago, I’ll sometimes reread so I can understand what they’re reacting to and respond intelligently (and enjoy their enthusiasm). It’s almost always in response to another person, not just because I want to revisit the story. And sometimes I cringe, but mostly I look to see what THEY enjoyed and revel in that a bit.
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