2025 Writing Log, Part Seven
Feb. 15th, 2025 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I wrote the first third of Chapter 3 of “The Last Green Knight,” a big bang fic that mixes Legend of Zelda with Arthurian legend.
- I wrote the first half of Chapter 5 of “What Dreams May Come,” a Bloodborne x Zelda crossover that is steadily becoming less Bloodborne and more of its own weird thing.
- I submitted a hearty and nutritious set of tag nominations to the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
phoenixdown_ex Final Fantasy fandom exchange. When signups open on February 22, I’m going to request side stories about NPCs and worldbuilding, maybe with a hint of horror. No one voluntarily writes stories like this because almost no one reads them, but I read them. In exchange for this indulgence, I will write literally anything. And I will have a great time doing it.
- I thought I was finished writing my essay about the game Crow Country, but I ended up including a bit more research when I went back to edit it. I’ve got a solid first draft now, and I think it’s a good and interesting piece of commentary. Hopefully I can find someone to publish this. I’ll send a follow-up email to Unwinnable on Monday if I don’t hear back from them over the weekend.
- My article “Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America” is now live on Sidequest (here).
- I pitched the short fiction zine I plan to publish this year, “Strange Tales and Modern Legends,” to a Patreon-based monthly zine subscription service (here).
- I am 99% sure that my zine isn’t a good fit for the service. I applied anyway as a way to motivate myself to articulate my goals and draft a concrete timeline. The rejection is going to sting a little, but it’s worth the tradeoff.
- As an aside: Submitting applications you know will be rejected as a way to bypass executive dysfunction and motivate yourself to begin a project is what ADHD does to a motherfucker.
- On a related note, I applied to the Clarion Workshop lmaoooooooo
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about A Hundred Years and a Day, a collection of 34 stories that delight in the anticapitalist aesthetic of gentle decline.
I spent the week being sick. Also it snowed. This would be a great time to hibernate, but alas. We live in a society.
- I wrote the first half of Chapter 5 of “What Dreams May Come,” a Bloodborne x Zelda crossover that is steadily becoming less Bloodborne and more of its own weird thing.
- I submitted a hearty and nutritious set of tag nominations to the
phoenixdown_ex Final Fantasy fandom exchange. When signups open on February 22, I’m going to request side stories about NPCs and worldbuilding, maybe with a hint of horror. No one voluntarily writes stories like this because almost no one reads them, but I read them. In exchange for this indulgence, I will write literally anything. And I will have a great time doing it. - I thought I was finished writing my essay about the game Crow Country, but I ended up including a bit more research when I went back to edit it. I’ve got a solid first draft now, and I think it’s a good and interesting piece of commentary. Hopefully I can find someone to publish this. I’ll send a follow-up email to Unwinnable on Monday if I don’t hear back from them over the weekend.
- My article “Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America” is now live on Sidequest (here).
- I pitched the short fiction zine I plan to publish this year, “Strange Tales and Modern Legends,” to a Patreon-based monthly zine subscription service (here).
- I am 99% sure that my zine isn’t a good fit for the service. I applied anyway as a way to motivate myself to articulate my goals and draft a concrete timeline. The rejection is going to sting a little, but it’s worth the tradeoff.
- As an aside: Submitting applications you know will be rejected as a way to bypass executive dysfunction and motivate yourself to begin a project is what ADHD does to a motherfucker.
- On a related note, I applied to the Clarion Workshop lmaoooooooo
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is about A Hundred Years and a Day, a collection of 34 stories that delight in the anticapitalist aesthetic of gentle decline.
I spent the week being sick. Also it snowed. This would be a great time to hibernate, but alas. We live in a society.
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Date: 2025-02-16 04:29 am (UTC)I look forward to seeing you in Phoenix Down! ♥
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Date: 2025-02-17 05:02 pm (UTC)My view regarding applications is that, if I don't get accepted, that's one less difficult and expensive thing I have to do later this year. I understand intellectually that I have to hustle if I'm serious about having a career, but in my heart all I want to do is spend the summer playing video games and writing fanfiction.