2020 Writing Log, Part 23
Jun. 21st, 2020 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I edited Chapter 38 of Malice and posted it on FFN.
- I edited Chapter 39 and uploaded it to FFN. I’ll post it next weekend.
- I edited Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.
- I wrote the first five hundred words of Chapter 40. This one is going to take a while, but that’s okay.
- I signed up for Multifandom Drabble, a low-pressure fanfic exchange. I requested and volunteered writing about a handful of video games, and I think I managed to describe myself fairly accurately: I specialize in humor, horror, worldbuilding, and character development, but I'm happy to write romance as well. There's no pairing I prefer or am averse to. I don't have much experience writing kink, but I'm willing to make a good-faith attempt at just about anything.
- I wrote the first page of my Legend of Zelda essay and revised the abstract. Getting started is always difficult, but it feels good to be on my way.
- I posted a very short review (of roughly 300 words) of a fantastic academic monograph called Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan. It was nice to work in such a concise format, and I’d like to write more of these super-short reviews of academic work in the future.
- I finished putting my reviews from 2019 and 2020 through another set of edits, and I posted a few abbreviated versions on Goodreads.
- I posted about a dozen zine reviews on Etsy, and I finally responded to all the lovely and wonderful comments people left on my stories on AO3.
There’s no need to write about this at length, but I finally realized why I feel so self-conscious about leaving comments on other people’s fanfic. Even though I figured out what happened to make me feel this way, it’s going to take some time to work through it. Still, next week I want to challenge myself to leave one comment on someone else’s story as I continue to work on my own. I can do this!
- I edited Chapter 39 and uploaded it to FFN. I’ll post it next weekend.
- I edited Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.
- I wrote the first five hundred words of Chapter 40. This one is going to take a while, but that’s okay.
- I signed up for Multifandom Drabble, a low-pressure fanfic exchange. I requested and volunteered writing about a handful of video games, and I think I managed to describe myself fairly accurately: I specialize in humor, horror, worldbuilding, and character development, but I'm happy to write romance as well. There's no pairing I prefer or am averse to. I don't have much experience writing kink, but I'm willing to make a good-faith attempt at just about anything.
- I wrote the first page of my Legend of Zelda essay and revised the abstract. Getting started is always difficult, but it feels good to be on my way.
- I posted a very short review (of roughly 300 words) of a fantastic academic monograph called Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan. It was nice to work in such a concise format, and I’d like to write more of these super-short reviews of academic work in the future.
- I finished putting my reviews from 2019 and 2020 through another set of edits, and I posted a few abbreviated versions on Goodreads.
- I posted about a dozen zine reviews on Etsy, and I finally responded to all the lovely and wonderful comments people left on my stories on AO3.
There’s no need to write about this at length, but I finally realized why I feel so self-conscious about leaving comments on other people’s fanfic. Even though I figured out what happened to make me feel this way, it’s going to take some time to work through it. Still, next week I want to challenge myself to leave one comment on someone else’s story as I continue to work on my own. I can do this!
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Date: 2020-06-24 08:21 pm (UTC)You can absolutely do this!
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Date: 2020-06-24 09:20 pm (UTC)Thank you for saying this out loud... *quiet weeping*
Sometimes I absolutely want to dive into a lengthy review, but usually I just want to know what the book is about, who the target audience is, and whether the dog dies. The problem with academic book reviews is that they tend to have a minimum 2k wordcount. Who has time for that?
The review I posted was supposed to be between 3,000 and 3,500 words, but the journal folded before I could submit it. Instead of posting the 2,000 words that I'd already written, I thought it would be cool to do something closer in style and tone to the sort of reviews I enjoy reading on Goodreads.
I know Amazon is evil, and I'm vaguely aware that there's all sorts of silly drama on Goodreads, but I really appreciate the site a lot. I don't think I would have joined if I hadn't read your posts here on Dreamwidth talking about it, so - thank you!
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Date: 2020-06-24 09:24 pm (UTC)Amazon is evil and drama is everywhere, honestly. I'm working on spreading out my book buying (or just going to the library instead, as my local libraries are extremely well-funded and what they don't have they can get, in addition to having very robust online offerings) and I don't know that I'll ever really be free of Kindle, not least of which because I eye B&N cautiously right now and the authors I really enjoy in romance are often digital-only* but I'm trying to make sure I don't contribute more to the problem than I have to.
* Yes, indie storefronts and Calibre onto a Kobo or something, but that's. So much friction. So much management and personal backups and then you get stuff like indie storefronts folding, and....I know resisting capitalism takes work but sometimes this is not the work I want to do, I just want to read trashy fluff. I realize this makes me problematic.
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Date: 2020-06-28 08:50 pm (UTC)Hail and well met, comrade.
This is so true and so perfectly stated that I got goosebumps reading it.
I'm not even joking.
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Date: 2020-06-29 04:14 pm (UTC)