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Ack. The latest MU chapter is apparently a mess of the sorts of errors that even my proofreading normally picks up, but at least it's being well-received... I wasn't too worried on that score, as I have what is probably one of the few fandoms where a few thousand words about the mechanical considerations of weaving spells and enchanting items could count as fan service.
So far I've managed my goal of writing a bit of fiction every day; sometimes a bit more than a bit. My semidialogue (that is, one half of a dialogue) about living forever will be included in the newsletter I'm putting together for next week; I will probably also be adding it to my modest but growing library of short stories on Kindle. After some of the conversations I had at WisCon and reading and participating in the comment-versations at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar's journal, I really think short stories are a good income stream and stealth marketing strategy.
State Of The Me:
Better.
Dream Diary:
I haven't been sleeping well enough or deep enough or long enough to have coherent and memorable dreams most nights. I didn't last night, either. But I did between like 9:30 this morning and 2:00 this afternoon.
During the portion of the dream that is really vivid, I was the SHN character "Clever" Claire Clevenger in some sort of detention facility (it wasn't clear if this was meant to be an adult prison or a juvenile facility... When Last We Saw Claire, she was on the verge of legal adulthood, though she has definitely spent time in the juvenile justice system. All the inmates seemed pretty young, so I'm going to say that if I were to turn this dream into a story it would be juvie.
And that's all I'm going to say about it here because I think there is a story in it, and telling a story before I tell a story is a good way to permanently scratch that itch.
Plans For Today:
I'm starting the next chapter of Tales of MU. I'll probably only do a little (defined as ~1,000 words) actual writing on it... my current scheme has me devoting the idle moments of a day to thinking about what I want to do with a chapter (or what I want the chapter to do) before undertaking to actually write it out, as an extension of the "reflect, then write" time divide. The results have been pretty good when I can keep external matters from distracting me.
I'll also be putting some time in on at least one other story, but I'm still waking up and I'm not sure what's going to grab me.
Ack. The latest MU chapter is apparently a mess of the sorts of errors that even my proofreading normally picks up, but at least it's being well-received... I wasn't too worried on that score, as I have what is probably one of the few fandoms where a few thousand words about the mechanical considerations of weaving spells and enchanting items could count as fan service.
So far I've managed my goal of writing a bit of fiction every day; sometimes a bit more than a bit. My semidialogue (that is, one half of a dialogue) about living forever will be included in the newsletter I'm putting together for next week; I will probably also be adding it to my modest but growing library of short stories on Kindle. After some of the conversations I had at WisCon and reading and participating in the comment-versations at
haikujaguar's journal, I really think short stories are a good income stream and stealth marketing strategy. State Of The Me:
Better.
Dream Diary:
I haven't been sleeping well enough or deep enough or long enough to have coherent and memorable dreams most nights. I didn't last night, either. But I did between like 9:30 this morning and 2:00 this afternoon.
During the portion of the dream that is really vivid, I was the SHN character "Clever" Claire Clevenger in some sort of detention facility (it wasn't clear if this was meant to be an adult prison or a juvenile facility... When Last We Saw Claire, she was on the verge of legal adulthood, though she has definitely spent time in the juvenile justice system. All the inmates seemed pretty young, so I'm going to say that if I were to turn this dream into a story it would be juvie.
And that's all I'm going to say about it here because I think there is a story in it, and telling a story before I tell a story is a good way to permanently scratch that itch.
Plans For Today:
I'm starting the next chapter of Tales of MU. I'll probably only do a little (defined as ~1,000 words) actual writing on it... my current scheme has me devoting the idle moments of a day to thinking about what I want to do with a chapter (or what I want the chapter to do) before undertaking to actually write it out, as an extension of the "reflect, then write" time divide. The results have been pretty good when I can keep external matters from distracting me.
I'll also be putting some time in on at least one other story, but I'm still waking up and I'm not sure what's going to grab me.