2023 Writing Log, Part Two
Jan. 15th, 2023 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I’m still working on the third chapter of the Breath of the Wild Coffeeshop AU. Suddenly everything I was writing seemed stupid, so I deleted it. I would delete this chapter entirely, but there are plot points that need to be established (inasmuch as this story has a plot) before the twist in the final chapter. Maybe it’s okay for this to be a short chapter. Like a bridge before the final chorus, sort of.
- I drew some quick character designs for the story and posted them on Tumblr. (Here) is Link, (here) is Zelda, and (here) is Ganondorf. I completely lost patience with the BotW lineless art style on that last one. I wanted to use these designs as references for someone to draw an actual illustration of the story, but now I’m feeling ambivalent about the project.
- I wrote a (kind of cringe) essay about queer identity and HP Lovecraft for a special themed issue of the online literary magazine Cosmic Double. They decided not to run it in the themed issue, but they still published it on their website (here). I consider this a win, to be honest. I really enjoy the site’s essays, which remind me of old-school blog posts. The magazine’s Twitter account (here) is a good resource for small-press calls for submissions, by the way.
- Speaking of cringe, the magazine where I published my first piece of short fiction folded up and completely deleted its online presence, so I reposted the story (here) on my personal blog. It’s not a great story, but this is the sort of thing small lit mags really seemed to enjoy during pandemic times. I didn’t originally intend to use AI-generated art for the post banner, but the artist I commissioned to create an illustration ran off with the money without giving me so much as a sketch. I might like to draw an illustration myself at some point, but I wanted to go ahead and post the story so that I didn’t have this whole thing hanging over my head.
- I was supposed to finish my essay about Elden Ring, but I barely touched it this week. I totally dropped the ball on this, and I’m going to have to come clean to the editor and say I need more time. I was excited to write this essay, so I didn’t think it would be a problem, but the first week of classes totally destroyed me.
- Yeah… I guess I wrote a new syllabus for a new class and scanned all the readings as PDF files and set up a course site and taught the first week of classes. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it.
I’m feeling really tired and depressed right now. I’m sure it will pass, but I think my mood would be vastly improved if my school had another week or two of winter break. I have no idea why the spring semester started so early this year, and it sucks. I feel like I didn’t have enough time to rest, and the students seem just as exhausted as I am. This can’t be healthy. But, you know. What can you do.
- I drew some quick character designs for the story and posted them on Tumblr. (Here) is Link, (here) is Zelda, and (here) is Ganondorf. I completely lost patience with the BotW lineless art style on that last one. I wanted to use these designs as references for someone to draw an actual illustration of the story, but now I’m feeling ambivalent about the project.
- I wrote a (kind of cringe) essay about queer identity and HP Lovecraft for a special themed issue of the online literary magazine Cosmic Double. They decided not to run it in the themed issue, but they still published it on their website (here). I consider this a win, to be honest. I really enjoy the site’s essays, which remind me of old-school blog posts. The magazine’s Twitter account (here) is a good resource for small-press calls for submissions, by the way.
- Speaking of cringe, the magazine where I published my first piece of short fiction folded up and completely deleted its online presence, so I reposted the story (here) on my personal blog. It’s not a great story, but this is the sort of thing small lit mags really seemed to enjoy during pandemic times. I didn’t originally intend to use AI-generated art for the post banner, but the artist I commissioned to create an illustration ran off with the money without giving me so much as a sketch. I might like to draw an illustration myself at some point, but I wanted to go ahead and post the story so that I didn’t have this whole thing hanging over my head.
- I was supposed to finish my essay about Elden Ring, but I barely touched it this week. I totally dropped the ball on this, and I’m going to have to come clean to the editor and say I need more time. I was excited to write this essay, so I didn’t think it would be a problem, but the first week of classes totally destroyed me.
- Yeah… I guess I wrote a new syllabus for a new class and scanned all the readings as PDF files and set up a course site and taught the first week of classes. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. I hated it.
I’m feeling really tired and depressed right now. I’m sure it will pass, but I think my mood would be vastly improved if my school had another week or two of winter break. I have no idea why the spring semester started so early this year, and it sucks. I feel like I didn’t have enough time to rest, and the students seem just as exhausted as I am. This can’t be healthy. But, you know. What can you do.
