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2020 Writing Log, Part 30
- In my last writing log, I said that I submitted “Mount Hiei” to Strange Horizons. What actually happened was that I got the story ready to submit to them as soon as their weekly submission period opened on Monday at noon. When I submitted the story, the automated system told me that I could only submit one story at a time. It turns out that “Don’t Order the Fish,” which I submitted at the beginning of June, was still “under review.” I therefore withdrew that submission and tried to submit “Mount Hiei,” only to be told that I would have to wait seven days before submitting a new story. So I took the opportunity to edit “Mount Hiei” again. I was able to submit it successfully this week, thank goodness.
- I finished my story for the Press Start fanfic exchange.
- I wrote a fake episode of The Magnus Archives podcast, which I posted on AO3.
- I edited Chapter 13, Chapter 14, and Chapter 15 of Malice. Chapter 14, which was actually the first chapter I wrote, was particularly rough, but it’s (a little) better now.
- I’m writing a review of Yoshiko Okuyama’s monograph Reframing Disability in Manga for Journal of Japanese Studies. The book is really good!
- Red Circle kindly send me a review copy of One Love Chigusa, a cyberpunk novella written by a male author in the 1980s. I’m dutifully writing a review, but I’m having a lot of trouble with the overt misogyny. This isn’t something I’m being sensitive about; rather, it’s right there on the page, front and center. One might even go so far as to say that misogyny is the guiding theme of the book. It’s gross and upsetting, and I’m at a loss for what to do about the review.
- I finally picked up my Legend of Zelda essay! After taking a long break, it feels good to work on academic writing again.
- I resumed my Korok hunt in my Wii U copy of the Breath of the Wild. I completely lost the narrative thread of Evoland 2, which I started playing at the beginning of the year, so I started a new game and somehow managed to log fifteen hours into it during the past week. It’s nice to take breaks from writing every once in a while.
- I started a Tokyo photography blog for self-care purposes. It’s nothing special, just me reposting images from the official websites of various stores and locations, but it’s a nice way to ease myself into work every morning.
- I set up a creator account on Patreon, but I’m still figuring out what to do with it. I’m thinking about posting new art every Sunday morning and links to new writing every Wednesday morning. Everything I create will always be freely available, both on Patreon and elsewhere, but this might be a good way for me to present everything I do in one feed while (maybe! hopefully!!) picking up a tiny bit of extra income that I can put toward a professional graphics tablet, which I’ve been wanting to buy for years now.
- I finished my story for the Press Start fanfic exchange.
- I wrote a fake episode of The Magnus Archives podcast, which I posted on AO3.
- I edited Chapter 13, Chapter 14, and Chapter 15 of Malice. Chapter 14, which was actually the first chapter I wrote, was particularly rough, but it’s (a little) better now.
- I’m writing a review of Yoshiko Okuyama’s monograph Reframing Disability in Manga for Journal of Japanese Studies. The book is really good!
- Red Circle kindly send me a review copy of One Love Chigusa, a cyberpunk novella written by a male author in the 1980s. I’m dutifully writing a review, but I’m having a lot of trouble with the overt misogyny. This isn’t something I’m being sensitive about; rather, it’s right there on the page, front and center. One might even go so far as to say that misogyny is the guiding theme of the book. It’s gross and upsetting, and I’m at a loss for what to do about the review.
- I finally picked up my Legend of Zelda essay! After taking a long break, it feels good to work on academic writing again.
- I resumed my Korok hunt in my Wii U copy of the Breath of the Wild. I completely lost the narrative thread of Evoland 2, which I started playing at the beginning of the year, so I started a new game and somehow managed to log fifteen hours into it during the past week. It’s nice to take breaks from writing every once in a while.
- I started a Tokyo photography blog for self-care purposes. It’s nothing special, just me reposting images from the official websites of various stores and locations, but it’s a nice way to ease myself into work every morning.
- I set up a creator account on Patreon, but I’m still figuring out what to do with it. I’m thinking about posting new art every Sunday morning and links to new writing every Wednesday morning. Everything I create will always be freely available, both on Patreon and elsewhere, but this might be a good way for me to present everything I do in one feed while (maybe! hopefully!!) picking up a tiny bit of extra income that I can put toward a professional graphics tablet, which I’ve been wanting to buy for years now.
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Your Tokyo photography blog is so sweet! That's a lovely self-care thing to do 🥰
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I'm really going out of my way to embrace the aesthetic of uselessness these days. Like, I'm going to find all 900 Korok seeds, and this will benefit no one.
I've been reading The Nib on and off, and I think I'd like to start drawing stuff that's a little more political than Zelda fan art. I'm exhausted by the current political climate, and commenting on it seems simultaneously asinine and beyond my level of skill. Once the administration changes, though, I want to have stored up enough energy to do things.
So right now I'm collecting pictures of Tokyo and posting nonsense comics and drawings of flowers on my art account. I'll make critical work when I don't feel like I'm constantly under attack. That's fair, right?
As for the review, I think what I'm going to do is post a blunt plot summary illustrated by actual quotes from the text. That way, I don't have to offer my actual opinion about anything. I'm also going to let the press's PR guy know that this is what I'm going to do, kind of, like, as a courtesy? I sort of want to offer to review another of the press's books instead, but I also feel like I should stand up for myself and set stronger boundaries instead of apologizing or trying to make concessions.
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but I also feel like I should stand up for myself and set stronger boundaries instead of apologizing or trying to make concessions.
DAMN STRAIGHT YOU SHOULD 💕
Also that sounds like a great approach for writing a review of something like that. I hope it goes well and future book reviews are less of a chore than this one.