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Getting Shit Done, Part Four
Nov. 24th, 2016 09:37 amThis is what I did yesterday:
- I wrote five hundred words of the eighth chapter of "On Calmer Tides." This probably shouldn't have been the first thing I did in the morning, but for some reason it's really important for me to keep a steady schedule with fic updates. If anyone wants to know why I will never succeed professionally, this is the reason: I am leaning way the fuck out of my job to write fic.
- I cleaned the apartment. When I got done it was immaculate.
- I wrote another thousand words of the "On Calmer Tides" chapter, flash edited it, and posted it to AO3 and Tumblr.
- Basically in this chapter Tetra is trying to deal with young white girls who don't mean to be racist but haven't yet learned any other script to follow. I saw this all the time when I was growing up (and it wasn't just white girls who did it, for what that's worth), and it's something I've always wanted to write about. I know there are some people who might say that I shouldn't be writing this, because this sort of thing isn't my story to tell, and honestly? I would love it if someone else wrote this fic for me, and I would be so happy if other people were writing stories like this. Fic authors tend to gravitate toward spaces where they know their work will be read, however, and there just aren't that many people who want to read about a character from a fifteen-year-old game dealing with race issues. Idk, hopefully my awful trashfic will inspire someone to create something better at some point down the line.
- I posted the fifth chapter of the story to FFN. Since editing is such a pain in the ass on FFN, I always try to let chapters breathe for a bit before I run additional edits and post them there.
- People came over oh wow so many people.
- Nothing else got done.
- I wrote five hundred words of the eighth chapter of "On Calmer Tides." This probably shouldn't have been the first thing I did in the morning, but for some reason it's really important for me to keep a steady schedule with fic updates. If anyone wants to know why I will never succeed professionally, this is the reason: I am leaning way the fuck out of my job to write fic.
- I cleaned the apartment. When I got done it was immaculate.
- I wrote another thousand words of the "On Calmer Tides" chapter, flash edited it, and posted it to AO3 and Tumblr.
- Basically in this chapter Tetra is trying to deal with young white girls who don't mean to be racist but haven't yet learned any other script to follow. I saw this all the time when I was growing up (and it wasn't just white girls who did it, for what that's worth), and it's something I've always wanted to write about. I know there are some people who might say that I shouldn't be writing this, because this sort of thing isn't my story to tell, and honestly? I would love it if someone else wrote this fic for me, and I would be so happy if other people were writing stories like this. Fic authors tend to gravitate toward spaces where they know their work will be read, however, and there just aren't that many people who want to read about a character from a fifteen-year-old game dealing with race issues. Idk, hopefully my awful trashfic will inspire someone to create something better at some point down the line.
- I posted the fifth chapter of the story to FFN. Since editing is such a pain in the ass on FFN, I always try to let chapters breathe for a bit before I run additional edits and post them there.
- People came over oh wow so many people.
- Nothing else got done.
