Check In Day 22

Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:04 pm
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Good night, good evening, good afternoon, good morning!  (Choose your time zone appropriate greeting as desired.)

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How was your writing day?

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Fun!
0 (0.0%)

Work.
0 (0.0%)

Suffering....
2 (100.0%)

Exactly OK!
0 (0.0%)

An infinitely more nuanced answer....
0 (0.0%)

Discussion time:  When I was in school, I was very much a "one story writer".  Every now and then, I might switch to another story if the first one hit a block, but generally, I never wrote multiple things at the same time.  After college, I continued very much in this same way, where I wouldn't even let myself think about writing something other than what my current project was (especially when it was exchange related and therefore time sensitive).

And then one day I took an arrow to the knee, I decided to write something besides my main project out of spite for myself and my arbitrary Highlander-esque "there can only be one" rules.

This did help relieve some of the stress of "I'm not writing AND I'm also mad at myself for it, so I'll not write even harder."  It also created a new issue where I have so many stories started but relatively few of them actually finished.

Which is a very long-winded way to ask:  what about y'all?  Do you tend to stick to one story/project until it's finished?  Do you hop from one to another depending on your mood/brain capacity/due date?  If you have multiple stories running at once, is there an order that you follow for when one gets its turn?  If you write one at a time, do you ever have times where other ideas try to muscle in on your time, and, if so, what do you do with them?

Check In Day 21

Apr. 21st, 2025 10:56 pm
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Hello, friends!  We're here once again.

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How did the writing go?

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It went well!
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It went less well.
1 (25.0%)

Well, it went! (Yoda)
1 (25.0%)

Well, it went! (comedy)
0 (0.0%)

Well-- (a deep subject)
2 (50.0%)

Discussion time:  Since it's still currently Monday here, I'll pretend that's the case for all of us.  Please humor me, I have so little else.  Monday's can be hard for getting writing time.  For anyone working the typical officey/9-5 type job, it's the start of the new work week.  For anyone in school, it's usually the start of their week, too.  And for some poor fools, it's trash night!  It's me, I'm fools

BUT!  New weeks mean new starts!  So, yes, while it might mean a return to more rigid daily schedules, it might also mean that things are starting over.  The week's only just begun, so we might not have hit the "cascading unfinished tasks" portion of the week that frequently overwhelms writing plans later in the week.

So how does Monday land for you?  Are your Mondays usually more one extreme or the other?  Or are they somewhere in the middle?  Or maybe a secret third thing?

Check In Day 20

Apr. 20th, 2025 06:01 pm
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Hello hello, fair friends!

Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!  Happy Chocolate Bunny Season to those who celebrate that!  And, for everyone, Happy Sunday!
(Note:  If it is no longer Sunday where you are, then Happy Monday???, if those words are allowed to go together?)

Let's get right to it.

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How was your writing day?

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It's been good!
2 (25.0%)

It's been not good.
0 (0.0%)

It's been OK.
3 (37.5%)

It didn't even happen.
2 (25.0%)

Umami, the ~fifth~ answer
1 (12.5%)

Discussion time:  It's a brand new week, and that means activities of all kinds.  How does this week look for writing time?

Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic Community

Apr. 19th, 2025 09:40 pm
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Hi! I created a community to share + discuss fanfiction for Baldur's Gate 3. 

Find it here:  [community profile] bg3fic 
  

Pantry Decluttering Continues

Apr. 18th, 2025 04:37 pm
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I went through the dry mixes and binned a half dozen or so that had either expired or were opened and half-used sometime in the past... two years? Eesh.

The lesson was learned: I only bought ONE replacement rice seasoning during today's grocery run. It's for trail food, and if that doesn't use up one packet, then they aren't worth getting again.

It's part of the new system: Each week, a couple of older/half-used items get separated out to be used for hiking food, meal planning, ingredients, whatever happens to be going on. Eventually the old stock gets cleared out, and there's a sane use:replace ratio going on.

Based on the pantry-clearing soda breads, the method is working. The sugar/nut/dried fruits shelf is half-empty now and today I could reorganize enough that there's floor space in there. It's half as crowded as it was a month ago.

- Ron S (he/him)
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 Hello on Friday!  Looking back at the day today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet -- how did it go?
 
   - I thought about my fic once or twice
   - I wrote
   - I did some planning and/or research
   - I edited
   - I've sent my fic off to my beta
   - I posted today!
   - I'm taking a break
   - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment
 
Looking forward, how are you planning to spend your weekend?
 
   - I'm going to make up for not writing all week by having a writing marathon
   - I'm going to keep writing at my current rate and see how it goes
   - I have other plans, but I might have time to get some writing in
   - I'm going to take a break from writing
 

celebrity20in20 Round 13

Apr. 17th, 2025 03:46 pm
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Link: Round 13 Sign Ups | Round 13 Themes

Description: [community profile] celebrity20in20 is a 20in20 community dedicated to making icons of actors and actresses. You have 20 days to make 20 icons about a celebrity of your choice, based on a set of themes for the round.

Schedule: Round 13 sign ups are open NOW. Icons are due May 7, 2025.
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 Hello on Thursday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)
 
    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing
 
How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?
 
    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes
 
In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
 

EO/Bensler fan community (SVU)

Apr. 17th, 2025 12:01 am
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I realized there was nowhere on Dreamwidth for SVU fans who love EO/Bensler (the Elliot/Olivia ship), so I created [community profile] bensler. I've kickstarted it with a post or two of my own, but I'd love other EO fans to join and post as well!

Tagged for adult content because the community is marked 18+ in order to be open to explicit fic and art.
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Hello on Wednesday!  How are things going in the world of fic?
 
Did you write?
 
   - Yes!
   - No!
   - Not yet!
 
If yes, what kind of writerly activity did you engage in?  How do you feel about it?
If no, what were the obstacles/situations that affected your writerly pursuits?  What will you do differently tomorrow to get more writing done?
If not yet, because the day hasn't gotten going yet, what kind of writing activity are you planning (or hoping) to accomplish?
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 Hello on Monday! How's the day going so far for fic? (If you haven't gotten started on your day as yet, how did yesterday go for writing fic?)
 
    - Excellent!
    - Terrible
    - Somewhere in between
    - Nothing doing
 
How much time have you spent on writing fic today, roughly?
 
    - None
    - 30 minutes or less
    - 30-60 minutes
    - 60-90 minutes
    - More than 90 minutes
 
In five words or less, how do you feel about that?
 

The Forms of Decluttering

Apr. 13th, 2025 06:50 pm
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... over the past month have been Baking and Beading.

Weekly bread has been a solution to clearing out the last of the Mysterious Unlabeled Cabinet Flour (it appears to be spelt) and various dried fruits, roots, and nuts that were lingering in their last dregs.

This week's bread contains the last of the spelt flour, crystallized ginger, and toasted almond slivers, as well as part of a container of dried currants.

Beading projects currently involve using up the last small bags of loose beads in the beading box. It's working reasonably well.

- Jack Mesa (he/him)

Update on my decluttering

Apr. 13th, 2025 01:09 pm
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About two and a half weeks ago I posted that I am working hard on decluttering in prep for a cross-country move. After several years of doing the huge cleanouts, I'm down to the small stuff, the emotional/sentimental items and wow, it is so much harder now.

But in the last two weeks I found homes for 44 of my fanzines. 34 remain but I am hopeful that perhaps some of those will find homes as well. The bad news? Is that this are zines from just one of my fandoms and many boxes of zines from another fandom remain upstairs in a closet. But still, I am going to count progress because 44 zines is a very big pile!

The other project I am focusing on is to curate the family photographs and must admit I've done no work on this project in the last couple weeks. However, I have cleared my afternoon today to sort through a large pile and make decisions on them. Last time I posted here, [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi had some advice from her own photo curation project, which I plan taking to heart: 1) no photos without people 2) no photos of people I don't like and 3) no photos of people I don't know.

Onward and upward!
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What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?
 
       - I thought about my fic once or twice
       - I wrote
       - I did some planning and/or outlining
       - I did research and/or canon review
       - I edited
       - I've sent my fic off to my beta
       - I posted today!
       - I'm taking a break
       - I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Sunday Discussion:  It's a new writing week, and that means a fresh start. Maybe you had a great writing week last week, or maybe last week wasn't the greatest for getting writing things done -- what kind of goals do you have for keeping up your momentum or starting off fresh this week? 

Gen Prompt Bingo Round 28

Apr. 12th, 2025 04:09 pm
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A narrow street with plastered houses leading down to an archway with Gen Prompt Bingo  Round 28 and the url genprompt_bingo.dreamwidth.org superimposed over it.


[community profile] genprompt_bingo is a low commitment multi-fandom, multi-media bingo challenge.

Its aim is to provide bingo cards of gen-style prompts to be used as inspiration in creating fic, images, meta, fanmixes, vids or any other kind of fannish activities. Although the prompts themselves are "Gen" (i.e., no prompts are specifically about romance or sex) fills may be of any genre, style or rating.

Prompt lists are renewed at the start of December and April. New cards can be claimed then even if a previous card has not been completed.

Round 28 is open
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Left some rusted bakeware and an old license plate out on the curb near the driveway to be scrapped. Found more sewing notions that could be donated. Might need to go through my books to consider which ones to pack up before moving - even though we haven’t even considered all the areas we want to search for housing yet.

I added the weight of this to the running sum of things I’ve gotten rid of for the final two weeks of the Zero Waste Challenge, this final one for 2025 measures from April Sixth through the 19th. I admit I forgot to fully record the exact weight of items in the 90 gallon inorganic cart, so I just added photos to the emails I sent my liaison.

Daily Check In 10

Apr. 10th, 2025 02:48 pm
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Hopefully you guys have a better writing time then I've had ^w^

Have you;
- Writen?
- Edited?
- Drafted / Outlined?
- Posted?
- Taken a break?
- Other?
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[community profile] moodthemeinayear, a community dedicated to creating custom mood themes, is starting its next round of the Minimum and Medium Mood Tracks tonight. If you're interested in following along and organizing enough images to min-max a custom mood theme on the Minimum Track, or branching out a little farther on the Medium Track, now is a great time to start! And feel free to join in on the Maximum Track simultaneously, if you want to really diversify your mood theme.


Meanwhile, in NSFW news, [community profile] summerofthe69 has opened up theme suggestions for the 2025 round. Summer of the 69 is a festival dedicated to works featuring the sexual position, open to all fandoms and to original creations. It runs from June 9th through September 6th, to encompass "6/9" in both common date formats: Month first and day first. Themes are posted once a week and run for two weeks each, with the exception of the final two, which are cut short by the date. Theme voting will open on May 1st and run through May 15th, to give potential participants time to plan for the fest.
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