2022 Writing Log 40
Nov. 26th, 2022 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I finished Chapter 9 of An Unfound Door. This chapter is somewhat long, but it’s not too bad. Along the way I blundered my way into a major realization about one of the characters. It’s always nice when that happens.
- I made the requested edits on my review of the You Died comic anthology and set it up for proofing on the backend of the Women Write About Comics website.
- I also wrote two mini-reviews for WWAC. Each is about 250 words long, and both were oddly satisfying. I don’t mind writing short reviews like this, and I’m thinking about asking one of my fellow contributors what it takes to write these sorts of reviews for Publisher’s Weekly.
- One of the digital (and possibly physical?) merch items for the Night in the Woods zine is a letter from each of the characters. I wrote the letter from Bea, the chain-smoking crocodile. I don’t like writing in first person for canon characters, so I put this off for a long time, but it turned out to be not so bad.
- I edited my story for the third check-in of the Sheikah zine. The writing mod’s comments on this were interesting and useful, which is always appreciated.
- I got my story assignment for the Hyrule Apocrypha zine, and I sat down and wrote it in less than an hour. Apparently I have some feelings about Ganon. Who would have thought.
- I put together a short post on “bad writing advice” for the GYWO writing community here on Dreamwidth. I enjoyed myself, but the truth is that I don’t think there’s really any such thing as “bad writing advice.” Rather, there’s a lot of advice that applies to a specific type of writing but may not apply more generally. My own personal pet peeve is when people take (legitimately good) screenwriting advice and try to apply it to prose fiction.
- I was invited to give a guest lecture about Dark Souls last week, and while doing some last-minute fact checking I found (this delightful meme video) from five years ago. I drew fan art of it, which I posted on Tumblr (here). This amuses no one but myself, but in all fairness, I was very amused. Praise the sun! \[T]/
Another thing I did this week was to cause trouble for Mixam and UPS, who delivered a scrap of cardboard with a torn mailing label in place of the zines I ordered. I was on both companies’ customer service staff like glue for several hours a day until the issue was resolved. This took a lot of time and energy tbh. People who regularly organize zines and deal with shipping are such champions.
Also I did a bunch of grading, which wasn’t bad. My students are really strong this semester, and it’s always a pleasure to read good writing.
- I made the requested edits on my review of the You Died comic anthology and set it up for proofing on the backend of the Women Write About Comics website.
- I also wrote two mini-reviews for WWAC. Each is about 250 words long, and both were oddly satisfying. I don’t mind writing short reviews like this, and I’m thinking about asking one of my fellow contributors what it takes to write these sorts of reviews for Publisher’s Weekly.
- One of the digital (and possibly physical?) merch items for the Night in the Woods zine is a letter from each of the characters. I wrote the letter from Bea, the chain-smoking crocodile. I don’t like writing in first person for canon characters, so I put this off for a long time, but it turned out to be not so bad.
- I edited my story for the third check-in of the Sheikah zine. The writing mod’s comments on this were interesting and useful, which is always appreciated.
- I got my story assignment for the Hyrule Apocrypha zine, and I sat down and wrote it in less than an hour. Apparently I have some feelings about Ganon. Who would have thought.
- I put together a short post on “bad writing advice” for the GYWO writing community here on Dreamwidth. I enjoyed myself, but the truth is that I don’t think there’s really any such thing as “bad writing advice.” Rather, there’s a lot of advice that applies to a specific type of writing but may not apply more generally. My own personal pet peeve is when people take (legitimately good) screenwriting advice and try to apply it to prose fiction.
- I was invited to give a guest lecture about Dark Souls last week, and while doing some last-minute fact checking I found (this delightful meme video) from five years ago. I drew fan art of it, which I posted on Tumblr (here). This amuses no one but myself, but in all fairness, I was very amused. Praise the sun! \[T]/
Another thing I did this week was to cause trouble for Mixam and UPS, who delivered a scrap of cardboard with a torn mailing label in place of the zines I ordered. I was on both companies’ customer service staff like glue for several hours a day until the issue was resolved. This took a lot of time and energy tbh. People who regularly organize zines and deal with shipping are such champions.
Also I did a bunch of grading, which wasn’t bad. My students are really strong this semester, and it’s always a pleasure to read good writing.
