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Done This Week
Sep. 4th, 2022 07:25 amA remarkably successful week. I say remarkable, because it seems like I am routinely hobbled by other people and/or businesses being just...just real shit at their jobs. Just a lot of "maximize profit at any cost, it is cheaper to pay off the complainers than do a better job in the first place."
I really, sincerely want to participate in Whumptober. Specifically, I want to do the hurt/comfort variant I've so enjoyed reading from thepartyresponsible across a couple of years. I am fully okay, I will note, with taking advantage of the already-posted prompt list to write ahead of time. I'm not proud.
I feel weirdly...underqualified for this? I mean, sure, I used to churn out short, fragmented prompt-based pieces on a regular basis, including weird crossovers...when I was in high school! My adult fanfic writing experience has consisted of "frantically drafted during a mental health crisis" and/or "lovingly agonized over for years, well beyond what is reasonable for the word count."
These feel like muscles I haven't attempted to use in years and I'm not even sure the nerve connections still exist. I feel like I need to rewire my brain, solder in some new circuits, before I can write for this.
Lewisia: 4 new pieces written--playing catch-up a bit--queued all September posts
Gratitude journaling: 35 new entries
Tumblr queue: 28 posts added
Day job: 39.75 hours, on account of jury duty
Cooking: roasted sunflower seeds (yum!)
Gardening: collected two of the giant sunflower heads, the rest and the popcorn still ripening/drying
Reading: finished reading Deep Wizardry (*sobwailagain*), finished What Moves the Dead (*shudder* goddammit, Ursula...), finished Redwall audiobook (...regrettably, I am aware of British social classes and imperialism and I am...having a hard time not seeing that...)
Other: jury duty (for all of about two hours)
The Bedroom Project: received frames, went to physical store to return the three that arrived horribly broken, framed up all prints (woo!) which now have to wait for the walls to actually be ready (boo...)
I really, sincerely want to participate in Whumptober. Specifically, I want to do the hurt/comfort variant I've so enjoyed reading from thepartyresponsible across a couple of years. I am fully okay, I will note, with taking advantage of the already-posted prompt list to write ahead of time. I'm not proud.
I feel weirdly...underqualified for this? I mean, sure, I used to churn out short, fragmented prompt-based pieces on a regular basis, including weird crossovers...when I was in high school! My adult fanfic writing experience has consisted of "frantically drafted during a mental health crisis" and/or "lovingly agonized over for years, well beyond what is reasonable for the word count."
These feel like muscles I haven't attempted to use in years and I'm not even sure the nerve connections still exist. I feel like I need to rewire my brain, solder in some new circuits, before I can write for this.
Lewisia: 4 new pieces written--playing catch-up a bit--queued all September posts
Gratitude journaling: 35 new entries
Tumblr queue: 28 posts added
Day job: 39.75 hours, on account of jury duty
Cooking: roasted sunflower seeds (yum!)
Gardening: collected two of the giant sunflower heads, the rest and the popcorn still ripening/drying
Reading: finished reading Deep Wizardry (*sobwailagain*), finished What Moves the Dead (*shudder* goddammit, Ursula...), finished Redwall audiobook (...regrettably, I am aware of British social classes and imperialism and I am...having a hard time not seeing that...)
Other: jury duty (for all of about two hours)
The Bedroom Project: received frames, went to physical store to return the three that arrived horribly broken, framed up all prints (woo!) which now have to wait for the walls to actually be ready (boo...)
