mistressofmuses | Apartment stuff + writing stuff

Well, apartment management miraculously "found" our recertification paperwork, and it has been approved! So we signed the lease last night and dropped it by the office this morning. So at least that's done! I'm definitely less stressed about that whole *thing* now, even as I'm still annoyed by this particular incarnation of our management.

Still have not heard anything back from maintenance about the broken garbage disposal (which we DID finally report.) It's definitely not an emergency, but still.

Also have not heard back about needing to set up a reinspection date.

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Had one (1) "good" day of writing the night before last - wrote more than 600 words in a go! It's... a little sad that that seems like a "good" day, when I had a couple runs of hitting 500+ words every day, but... welp, it's better than nothing! It did not transfer to magical motivation yesterday, when limping across 100 words was still a struggle. But dammit, I want to finish this damn fic.

TBH, if this fic *hadn't* been for a challenge, I would probably give up on it. But it was for a challenge, where it was allowed to post a WIP only if you were reasonably certain it would be completed. Which at the time I was... Now it's been months, but I still feel honor-bound to complete the damn thing.

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On the writing front, my head keeps jumping ahead to October, because a couple people on my FB flist shared the 2021 Inktober prompt list. I recall it turning out that the guy who started Inktober is kind of a dick, but there are always buckets of alternative prompt lists that go around. Since I'm not much of a visual artist, a couple times I've used the prompt list to write oneshots.

Part of me wants to do that again! I've found prompt lists like that a lot of fun in the past. A holiday themed one for original fic several years ago, Inktober back in maybe 2018? 2019? The AUgust prompts last year...

But considering how burned out I am on this current WIP, plus the several things that I have in various stages of in-progress, or hope to get started on... I also know it's probably not a good idea, ha.

(And that's not even getting into thinking about NaNoWriMo. I've done it enough years in a row, I don't want to break my streak, but I don't have a bit project to turn my attention toward right now. Though I've still got over a month to figure that out.)

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I love doing ink stuff in October. I just ignore the one guy who thinks he owns the idea and all the people who defend him and his 'right' to monetize his idea. He can keep the word. It's no longer a community challenge. The tags are swamped with pro artists showing off old work they are just presenting as 'for day N of Inktober'. I'm working on some pencils to ink ... at some point tonight.

Yeah, screw that guy and his bullshit, lol. It's true - SO much of what I see shared is finished professional work being reshared if it can vaguely fit the theme (or not), rather than something drawn just for the challenge. (Which I think unfortunately intimidates some people out of sharing their work, though maybe I'm projecting. ;) ) Not that there aren't artists who can turn out amazing work fairly quickly, but I think you know what I mean.

I never really do visual art anymore (should have stuck with it post high school!), but doing some sort of daily creative thing would be fun. Maybe doodles, though probably writing. Maybe Halloween something. I'll have to keep thinking about it.

If you do some ink stuff (in or out of October) I hope you share it! (If you want to, of course.)

The stated aim is that it's for people who are learning and just developing inking skills, so being dominated by pros is ... I don't blame them for hitting up every promo opportunity, but I wish people would stop talking about inktober like it's a community event about learning to draw. It stopped being that before I even heard of it. And yeah, it can be intimidating for the people who are the stated focus of the event.

I will share what I do! I don't know how much I will get done. I'll spend a lot of time being annoyed at myself for not keeping up my inking skills at least a little over the year.

It's true, I can't blame anyone for taking an opportunity to promote their work, or show it off... but yeah, inktober hasn't felt like a 'beginner-friendly community event' for a very long while.

Excellent! I look forward to seeing whatever you do. :)

(Annoyance is generally my experience whenever I try to do visual art stuff... I used to draw a lot in high school, though never ESPECIALLY well, but then pretty much stopped. Now going back to it is always a bit frustrating.)

Oh fuck! I'm so relieved that the whole apartment fiasco has been resolved! *hugshugshugs* I was so stressed for you two over that, especially considering winter's coming. I did not want you guys to wind up back in the straits you were in for so long. Of course, they were just being dicks about it and probably realized that they were the ones in hot water, especially if you and Alex pursued it legally. WHEW!

Me too! I'm terrified of winding up back in the situation we were in. I feel like the issues with management now have mostly just been incompetence rather than anything malicious (or at least I hope so.) But it's still frustrating to deal with, when it could have such huge impacts on us!

I'm glad they finally found the paperwork. *eyes roll out of head* At least you're all set now and that's one thing off your mind.

Yay for getting some words written down!

Me too! The eyerolling was pretty much The Mood. But I am glad to be able to quit worrying about it!

Thank you!

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