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I'm a bit worried about how much media I'm consuming lately and how much time I spent perusing AO3. Am I learning to enjoy things again, or am I regressing to the point I was around 2012-2013, where I threw myself into fandom and neglected everything else? The latter being better than how I felt for most of 2016 doesn't make it good...
I'm on an unemployment payment with a short medical exemption, which expires tomorrow. I think my recent job history gives Centrelink et al the impression that finding a new stable job will be easy for me, which for numerous reasons is a big NOPE. I'll ask the peeps at the job office if I can get more assistance, maybe an appointment with a counselor. Might not be able to achieve anything until after new year's, but that's fine.
Which isn't to say I haven't done anything productive in the meantime. I spent this week cleaning my room and getting rid of things I no longer need. My housemate bought the KonMari method book out of curiosity, and while it's not feasible to follow it to the letter, it's a good starting point for someone like me, who doesn't own a lot but has weird guilt issues getting rid of what I don't need. I see people ribbing the book a lot, but honestly, I find KonMari's occasional bizarre gender essentialism wwaaaaayy more off-putting than the idea of talking to my socks lol
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inkingitout. I specified that my word count goal was for published words. I am capable of writing! What I need to work on is revising and getting stories to a place where people besides myself can read them. I also want to clear away the older ideas that resurface in my mind on the regular, to make way for new things, hence looking through old writing. I have the project I did for a rushed attempt at NaNoWriMo this year, ideas I originally had for games which I could convert into novels, some fanfic drafts...
Speaking of, I rewrote a vignette based on Invisible Inc, posted it on AO3, and got a few kudos-es, which makes me happy. Part of my brain craves more attention and I have to keep telling it, 'If you want more views maybe give me ideas based on things besides, you know, obscure computer games. Hell, I KNOW you've been watching Yuri on Ice, you have no excuse, get on it.' XD If I have luck and the result is actually suitable for public consumption I'll let you know XD
The main risk of thinking about writing is that I'll forget to do anything else. This post took a weirdly long time to write, for instance. I had better get back to cleaning.
I'm on an unemployment payment with a short medical exemption, which expires tomorrow. I think my recent job history gives Centrelink et al the impression that finding a new stable job will be easy for me, which for numerous reasons is a big NOPE. I'll ask the peeps at the job office if I can get more assistance, maybe an appointment with a counselor. Might not be able to achieve anything until after new year's, but that's fine.
Which isn't to say I haven't done anything productive in the meantime. I spent this week cleaning my room and getting rid of things I no longer need. My housemate bought the KonMari method book out of curiosity, and while it's not feasible to follow it to the letter, it's a good starting point for someone like me, who doesn't own a lot but has weird guilt issues getting rid of what I don't need. I see people ribbing the book a lot, but honestly, I find KonMari's occasional bizarre gender essentialism wwaaaaayy more off-putting than the idea of talking to my socks lol
In the next few days, I'll go through my old writing and make a plan of attack for
inkingitout. I specified that my word count goal was for published words. I am capable of writing! What I need to work on is revising and getting stories to a place where people besides myself can read them. I also want to clear away the older ideas that resurface in my mind on the regular, to make way for new things, hence looking through old writing. I have the project I did for a rushed attempt at NaNoWriMo this year, ideas I originally had for games which I could convert into novels, some fanfic drafts...Speaking of, I rewrote a vignette based on Invisible Inc, posted it on AO3, and got a few kudos-es, which makes me happy. Part of my brain craves more attention and I have to keep telling it, 'If you want more views maybe give me ideas based on things besides, you know, obscure computer games. Hell, I KNOW you've been watching Yuri on Ice, you have no excuse, get on it.' XD If I have luck and the result is actually suitable for public consumption I'll let you know XD
The main risk of thinking about writing is that I'll forget to do anything else. This post took a weirdly long time to write, for instance. I had better get back to cleaning.
