So I can't properly bitch about how nobody told me to watch Bomb Girls, because ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lasergirl did, in fact, tell me to watch Bomb Girls last January.
Then I forgot all about it until I saw an advertisement for season 2 on the tv at the gym this weekend and I was like ooooohh, pretty!
Brace yourself for future picspam!
lasergirl did, in fact, tell me to watch Bomb Girls last January. Then I forgot all about it until I saw an advertisement for season 2 on the tv at the gym this weekend and I was like ooooohh, pretty!
Brace yourself for future picspam!
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Also, I got the card you sent! Thank you! Unfortunately, I still haven't mailed anything to anyone yet. I had good intentions, but it just didn't happen. I figure I'll send out Groundhog Day cards instead. :)
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By the way, the DtC stories are all on AO3 this year:
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/down_the_chimney_affair_2012/works
There are no surprises, just read the authors you'd read normally. The only one you might not know is mayamaya who shocked me, because her earlier stuff is incoherent, this is really good.
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Thanks for the link to the archive! Did you enjoy writing this year? Is your story the one you worked on for pico? I'm going to read it as soon as I get home from work.
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I'm not sure that "enjoy" is the right word when it comes to writing ;) I enjoy finishing a story, sometimes I enjoy writing, but it's really hard work for me. Yeah, I worked on this one during pico, though I had to do fake updates since saki was my recipient.
I think if you have internet ennui, then you shouldn't worry about updates. I hope that means you're doing interesting things in RL though. How's work?
I have no new fannish enthusiasms at the moment; I dvr'd The Hour and will check that out as soon as I can rouse myself enough to do so. But hey, hockey is coming back :D
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I enjoy writing the "good parts" of a story, but I hate Hate HATE writing the stuff that is needed to tie the good parts together. If I was a better writer, I'd be able to make every part of a story interesting, but instead my motivation curls up and dies whenever I push too hard.
RL is keeping me really busy. Right now I'm taking college courses from 8:30 - 4:00 and then I have my part time job from 4:00 to 6:30 and then I go to the gym for an hour (I'm thinking of running another marathon this year so I'm pretty devoted to training). Add public transit commute time in there and suddenly my whole day is gone before I've had a chance to do anything more than meet my scheduled commitments. In theory, I have lots of time for the fannish stuff, since my job as after hours receptionist involves me sitting in front of a computer for 2.5 hours with nothing in particular to do. Yet somehow I end up losing that time to the internet in completely unmemorable ways such as looking at clothes on modcloth or asos even though I never see anything that I would actually buy.
My goal this year is to become more disciplined about how I use/lose time. I have lots of one hour windows between classes that I could use to do something productive if I was more organized. With writing I often feel like if I don't have at least two hours free then there is no point in even starting because it takes an hour for me just to get the words flowing.
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You'll get back to fannish stuff when there's something that interests you enough. No point in forcing it. The MFU comms are even more dire than before if that is even possible. There's absolutely no reason to go there.
Pico is definitely a project, twice a year is a real commitment. It's been helpful because for me it's always been the actual starting to write that's a problem. Once I'm doing it, it gets better. I feel the same as you though, there are certain parts of stories, mainly dealing with moving plot forward, where I feel my writing is dull. I know I'm fine on the conflict/angst scenes. I'm really aware of my technical shortcomings--I was trying to stretch a bit on the dtc story. It worked partially, but not totally imo. Overall I'm not unhappy with it. We only had 5-6 weeks though because it took them so long to set up ao3. That may be a lot of time for some people, but I need more time than that, with all my false starts and general flailing.
Now I'm back on "Breaking Glass" which is turning out to be looooooooong. And the plot isn't exactly clear yet either, all I have is a hook and a fuzzy sense of where I want to go--but I'm writing :D