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mistressofmuses) wrote2023-09-07 10:02 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2023-09-07 10:02 pm
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And again...
...I am not having the productive night I'd intended.
Work wasn't as terrible - about half as busy, though the other person who was supposed to be helping with the new voicemail task did exactly zero of them. Still, I only had fourteen today.
Unfortunately, I woke up with a ton of sinus pressure and a mid-grade headache that never really went away.
The morning was also a frustrating series of petty garbage. Biggest was that I took some time to make myself coffee to take to work... Then on the way a loose dog ran out in front of the car. This is the second time Alex has almost hit that same collarless dog in the road, though we did manage to avoid tragedy. But it threw Bella into the dashboard (I had a hold of Cy at the time) and Bella knocked my coffee over, so all that coffee I'd spent time making wound up on the floor of the truck. :(
Then we were stuck behind a guy who nearly caused three separate accidents as he veered all over the road and cut people off while texting, and I wound up late to work.
The collarless loose dog of this morning is NOT the same collarless loose dog that we encountered in the park on Monday. That one bit Alex and tore the shit out of his hand! He's okay, but his hand still hurts, and has a couple nasty punctures and a lot of bruising.
So... not a day that lends itself to the desire to do productive things.
I am not posting pictures (of bugs. again.)
I am not really working on much writing (though I'm going to try to get some done tonight.)
I'm trying something a little different with the remaining AUgust fics. Up until now (as in, through the month of August + the one fic I've managed this month), I've been going in order down the list. That is typically my preference for when I do things like this. However, that was part of the issue with why I got as behind as I did. If I couldn't get something to work, I fell farther and farther behind as I tried to get it into a non-sucky form.
Instead, I think I'm going to try just moving on if I can't get something done within a couple of days. I can come back to any of those fics when I have time, even if that's after the month is over, and even if it means I'm posting the fics out of order.
On the one hand, this sort of defeats my primary purpose of this sort of challenge, which is "quickly get a thing done, don't spend forever revising, just get it done and shared." But it also wasn't serving that purpose to spend days trying to sort out why something wasn't working. (And while I'm willing to post these without going through a full revision, and just doing a quick editing pass... I still do have a minimum level of quality that I want to post.)
My hope is that this means I won't get bogged down forever on something I'm struggling with. (In this case, the potential E-rated story that I did not complete, much less post yesterday. I may be reluctant to finish and share it, but I can't use that as an excuse to bail entirely.)
Work wasn't as terrible - about half as busy, though the other person who was supposed to be helping with the new voicemail task did exactly zero of them. Still, I only had fourteen today.
Unfortunately, I woke up with a ton of sinus pressure and a mid-grade headache that never really went away.
The morning was also a frustrating series of petty garbage. Biggest was that I took some time to make myself coffee to take to work... Then on the way a loose dog ran out in front of the car. This is the second time Alex has almost hit that same collarless dog in the road, though we did manage to avoid tragedy. But it threw Bella into the dashboard (I had a hold of Cy at the time) and Bella knocked my coffee over, so all that coffee I'd spent time making wound up on the floor of the truck. :(
Then we were stuck behind a guy who nearly caused three separate accidents as he veered all over the road and cut people off while texting, and I wound up late to work.
The collarless loose dog of this morning is NOT the same collarless loose dog that we encountered in the park on Monday. That one bit Alex and tore the shit out of his hand! He's okay, but his hand still hurts, and has a couple nasty punctures and a lot of bruising.
So... not a day that lends itself to the desire to do productive things.
I am not posting pictures (of bugs. again.)
I am not really working on much writing (though I'm going to try to get some done tonight.)
I'm trying something a little different with the remaining AUgust fics. Up until now (as in, through the month of August + the one fic I've managed this month), I've been going in order down the list. That is typically my preference for when I do things like this. However, that was part of the issue with why I got as behind as I did. If I couldn't get something to work, I fell farther and farther behind as I tried to get it into a non-sucky form.
Instead, I think I'm going to try just moving on if I can't get something done within a couple of days. I can come back to any of those fics when I have time, even if that's after the month is over, and even if it means I'm posting the fics out of order.
On the one hand, this sort of defeats my primary purpose of this sort of challenge, which is "quickly get a thing done, don't spend forever revising, just get it done and shared." But it also wasn't serving that purpose to spend days trying to sort out why something wasn't working. (And while I'm willing to post these without going through a full revision, and just doing a quick editing pass... I still do have a minimum level of quality that I want to post.)
My hope is that this means I won't get bogged down forever on something I'm struggling with. (In this case, the potential E-rated story that I did not complete, much less post yesterday. I may be reluctant to finish and share it, but I can't use that as an excuse to bail entirely.)
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How much to revise is a hard balance to strike. Being able to post freely can help your writing a lot, but also yeah... wanting work to be polished. It's like... both are good?
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How much revision to give something is definitely a place where I struggle. I'm personally a lot happier doing at least one full rewrite, plus a general revision pass or two. That is also pretty time-consuming, and leads to a lot of things just remaining unwritten, because I don't want to invest that much time and energy into it unless it feels super worth it.
Doing a challenge where I AM trying to write a short fic in just a day or two helps to kind of stretch my brain, both in terms of not overplanning and just writing, and in terms of accepting "good enough" instead of "as good as I can get it." (And keeping things short - I tend to mostly write long novella/short novel length stuff.) Even so, I DO have a minimum level of "good enough" that I'll accept, and sometimes something just isn't hitting it. I'm not writing fics that are going to change the world or redefine the fandom... but I'm not okay posting utter crap, either, haha.
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Moving on to a different prompt sounds like a good idea.
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I'm hoping this will help with the writing - getting stuck on one and getting too behind to catch up has been my issue this year, so maybe just moving onto the next, and going back later will be a fix for that.
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