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Group Stuff!
Finishing up getting stuff together for the writing buddies idea. Want to start drafting plans. So! If you are officially interested in a writing buddy through this group, please say so in your comment. Also mention what times would work for you vis-a-vis chat and what timezone you live in.
Also, for whatever reason,
never got back to me when I told them my time choice, so the official Word Wars chat tour stop will not be here this month. Not sure what happened, but I'll keep trying. 
And thanks to everyone who came out to the chat last night!
I'll aim for another one this week, though I won't commit to a date just yet.
Cool Stuff!
Got a lot of neat stuff from Tumblr today. I don't do much there but reblog everything Pacific Rim-related and collect stuff for this group.
First, a really cool collection of author quotes in a pretty graphic: 25.media.tumblr.com/2f0ee8f18d…
Next, a graphic you can use to explain your state of mind to your friends: pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
Donkey tells it how it is: pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
These graphics are really cool examples of Yoruba mythology: pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
(It's actually super-difficult to find information about the beliefs of various African tribes, which is a damn shame because they're cool.)
Here is a neat productivity tool I found. It's supposed to provide music that will create just enough distraction to tune out other distractions, if that makes sense. There's an explanation of the science on their website. www.focusatwill.com/music/#pla…
And finally... Gandalf wants to know why you aren't writing right now. You can't hide from Gandalf. pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
(Unscientific aside: Does anyone know the HTML to make links not ugly? I'm getting tired of this.)
Sharing Time!
Please share anything you have found around the interwebs this week or anything you have posted! I love seeing your stuff!
Still working on my OCT round. Flailing around for a character arc.
Group Stuff!
Finishing up getting stuff together for the writing buddies idea. Want to start drafting plans. So! If you are officially interested in a writing buddy through this group, please say so in your comment. Also mention what times would work for you vis-a-vis chat and what timezone you live in.
Also, for whatever reason,
never got back to me when I told them my time choice, so the official Word Wars chat tour stop will not be here this month. Not sure what happened, but I'll keep trying. And thanks to everyone who came out to the chat last night!
I'll aim for another one this week, though I won't commit to a date just yet. Cool Stuff!
Got a lot of neat stuff from Tumblr today. I don't do much there but reblog everything Pacific Rim-related and collect stuff for this group.
First, a really cool collection of author quotes in a pretty graphic: 25.media.tumblr.com/2f0ee8f18d…
Next, a graphic you can use to explain your state of mind to your friends: pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
Donkey tells it how it is: pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
These graphics are really cool examples of Yoruba mythology: pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
(It's actually super-difficult to find information about the beliefs of various African tribes, which is a damn shame because they're cool.)
Here is a neat productivity tool I found. It's supposed to provide music that will create just enough distraction to tune out other distractions, if that makes sense. There's an explanation of the science on their website. www.focusatwill.com/music/#pla…
And finally... Gandalf wants to know why you aren't writing right now. You can't hide from Gandalf. pancake-angst.tumblr.com/post/…
(Unscientific aside: Does anyone know the HTML to make links not ugly? I'm getting tired of this.)
Sharing Time!
Please share anything you have found around the interwebs this week or anything you have posted! I love seeing your stuff!
Still working on my OCT round. Flailing around for a character arc.
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Group Hiatus
So I pride myself on being honest with y'all, but I really haven't been, and that's crappy of me, so... here we go.
The truth is I've been in the middle of a major depressive spike for about a month and a half now. I'm working on things as best I can, but at the moment I have a shitty living situation and a shitty job, and it's really all I can do to keep those plates spinning.
This group is supposed to be a joy for me, but at the moment it's really just kind of a strain. I don't need a long break, I think, but definitely at least through the holidays, because those are going to be really rough for me this year.
Sorry, guys. If any of you
WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday 71, December 10
WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday!
It's that time again! Please tell me all your woes, writing-related or otherwise. I promise to listen.
Remember, no criticism, only commiseration.
I am all right this week. Looking forward to Christmas and all that jazz. And there is no work at my work because we are in a lull before the time when people freak out and realize, "Oh crap I need to have health insurance when I do my taxes."
Taking a break from my NaNo right now because the topics are too heavy for me to deal with at the moment. Working on fanfiction instead.
Twosome Tuesday 71, December 9
Okay, so I'm sure everyone else got to celebrate the new DA logo with parties and such, but for me I got 500 server errors all weekend every time I tried to open a page. =/ So yeah. Let's move on from that.
Twosome Tuesday!
First, from Francesca Lia Block,
"Write with abandon and no constraints for the first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files for the second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love."
And from Neil Gaiman,
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like."
I've be
WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday 70, December 3
WHY AM I DOING THIS Wednesday!
It's that time again! Please tell me all your woes, writing-related or otherwise. I promise to listen.
Remember, no criticism, only commiseration.
This week has been all right so far. Keep getting blindsided by the fact that it's December already, but there you are.
Took a day off from writing to go through my novel. I plotted this one ahead of time, but now I have run out of outline and have to figure out where to go from there. Also, the characters have changed so much on me that I don't think my original vision is anything like what it's going to be. So I gotta figure that out before I go any further.
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I'm excited about writing buddies! I'm EST and can chat pretty much every evening and weekend except Mondays because I'll be started a dog class the end of Oct.
Cool links! Thanks for sharing! Here's a cool article I saw this week: cameronafzal.wordpress.com/201…
I'm working on a OC role playing type story with a friend right now as well as a short story for the Confessions of a King contest, but nothing to share yet. Hopefully soon!