I'm having a really happy fandom time at the moment. It's the whole virtuous cycle of being in sync with a couple of fellow gremlins fans who are into the same thing I am, in similar ways, where we cheer for canon, we cheer for our shared interpretation, and we cheer and enable each other.

That means at the moment, when I'm writing, I often have one reader's specific reactions in mind and it is glorious. I don't really need more, or it helps me not count on it at least. I have a good chance of connecting with a fellow fan, brain-to-brain, heart-to-heart and that is JOYFUL!

So I wrote last night's drabble like that, which was also fun because I want to write more shorter things, too. More yeeting into the void. Sometimes being so slow gnaws a bit at my confidence, when it takes SO! DAMN! LONG! to finish anything haha, and then it's hard not to build up expectations.

Having said that I returned to editing my long poly Kaijuu No. 8 fic this morning, which I'm having such a grand time with :D I knew the first half didn't work well and wasn't sure how to fix it originally, thought I might have to go the whole enchilida and reverse-outline it. Anchoring healed me fixed it, though! :D And yesterday I reached the turning point scene in the middle, which STILL makes me laugh out loud after *checks spreadsheet* 3 months since I wrote it, and I'm still cackling. This is the scene from which I found my feet so I've been cooing and giggling and awww-ing in my editing this morning XD

Incidentally, I think this is one of my failures with the cursed witch, and many of my original projects. I tend to go in serious mode, when I believe that integrating humour in stories is a strength of mine. There's a couple of lighthearted and funny moments in the witch story, but I didn't leave a lot of space for that.

But also my main enabling friend went 👀👀👀 at me about the kn8 turning point scene yesterday so I got to share it early, and they laughed too, and I'm happy. I can write stories and have fun doing it, I can fix most/many problems in my writing once I noticed them, I can share with at least one or two people who appreciate whatever it is I'm trying to do, at least some of the time.

Wishing you all an amazing week!!!!!!!!!

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that people enthusing about The Pitt (medical drama?) were not actually talking about Pit Babe (omegaverse race car drivers?) despite my brain apparently hastily storing both in the same mental bucket.

I haven't seen either (yet) (probably) (I'm not watching much TV beyond anime these days years), but very happy to see everyone having fun :D


Can a crossover be contemplated? XD

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

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Over the last week...

Posted & commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on little_details.

Commented on endings.

Commented on goals_on_dw.

Signal boosts:

• moodthemeinayear is chugging along, and now has free points to offer for folks who complete part of a mood theme for Dreamwidth :D Even more motivation to learn!! Haha. See this post for more information.
• Via dray, a new comm focusing on original characters is starting over at ocrealm, if you have characters you'd like to chat about!
• Via shipperslist, there's a new comm to enthuse about any kind of audio-based narrative entertainment, see voiceinmyear!

Dear self, I know you forget every time, so here's reminder #134792. I think there are a few of these reminders as posts on this journal already, too.

1. Your first drafts are pretty bare, and that's okay! Don't sweat it. Conversations and actions in a void, just roll with it. Blank room syndrome, let's go.
2. Of course it seems flat when you reread. The solution isn't to add unnecessary action or vague plot, at least not as a first port of call.
3. Start with ANCHORING the scene! Visualise it! Where are the characters? What are they wearing and doing while speaking or doing the stuff that needs getting done? Can you add any sensory descriptions beyond visual descriptions? What scents surround them? What time is it?
4. As you are rediscovering today for the 358935893th time, this already helps a lot with making scenes more vivid and flow better.

For the cursed witch, during early revisions I literally wrote "ANCHOR!" at the start of every chapter I was annotating so I'd actually remember to do that when making the changes afterwards.

But I forgot again, and was being all sad at the flat fic first draft I pulled out this morning. Now I have ANCHORED and VISUALISED the first scene, and I'm a bit less sad :D And also, having fun. Whee! \o/

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

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Over the last week...

Posted & commented on bnha_fans.

Commented on ficwip.

Commented on dw_news. Dreamwidth hasn't increased their prices since 2009 and was going to do so this year, except that the situation out there is pretty bad so they decided to postpone a bit longer. The request is that IF you feel you can afford to, buy more services or gift points to another user this December while the holiday point bonus campaign is happening. For me, this means I was also able to get paid time for the bnha_fans comm for the next year, at current prices. Which is great. Yay Dreamwidth <3