Weekly Writing Update
Sep. 3rd, 2021 04:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deemoyzaI am neck-deep in the final chapter of my Press Start assignment. Naturally, I have Thoughts about this, but they'll just have to wait until later.
In the home stretch now; fic must be written!
Total words written this week: 6,848
Total words written this year: 76,481
Total days written this week: 5
Total days written this year: 63
(Icon accurately reflects how I'm approaching this final chapter.)
In the home stretch now; fic must be written!
Total words written this week: 6,848
Total words written this year: 76,481
Total days written this week: 5
Total days written this year: 63
(Icon accurately reflects how I'm approaching this final chapter.)
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Date: 2021-09-03 11:52 am (UTC)Best of luck with cranking out your Press Start fic! I'm about to settle in and do my last round of edits before slapping it on AO3. WE GOT THIS! 💕
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Date: 2021-09-04 11:17 am (UTC)And yes, Manaka is a treasure. ❤️ I could watch an entire series focused on her!
I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-04 07:19 pm (UTC)You're in the home stretch and I believe in youuuuu.
I'm sorry I haven't really updated my Dreamwidth. T__T I've been busy writing, working, hunting and other things. I was also trying to migrate my works off my personal DW to a community I made for that and then I got overwhelmed by accident because I forgot how many of my works and excerpts are posted on there. LOL
Tell me how you've been! I wanna hear about everything! ♥
Re: I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-07 06:30 pm (UTC)It's nice to hear from you again. :D I know how it is to get sucked into other projects and, all of a sudden, time has passed! Good luck with migrating your works over to their specific community. I've always made attempts to organize/curate my works, but eventually, they slide to the back burner. XD
Also, I love your icon! It's nice to see Squall looking so relaxed and happy with someone.
As for myself, there's not much to tell. I really didn't get much writing done over the summer (July was a bust), and for the most part, I've just kind of been...existing. The heat really makes me unwilling to do much of anything. I did get sucked back into Animal Crossing and spruced up my island, and revisited a few other games I've previously played, but I haven't tackled anything new on the video game front, either.
But fall is on the way, I'm wrapping up a long weekend, and I've gone back to my normal schedule at work, so hopefully I'll be more inclined to create stuff going forward. :)
Re: I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-09 07:33 pm (UTC)No problem! I know whatever you have going on, you'll persevere and end up overcoming it. c:
It is such a slow process because I have to remind myself that according to AO3 I have over 50 completed works. That doesn't include my excerpts of upcoming fics or fics I've decided to put on the back burner for another time or insanely OLD fics I wrote back in 2012. So it is a bit overwhelming to say the least. xD
And thank you! It's my OC, Kajol! I told myself I'd get at least the first chapter up of the fic regarding them in this commission (which I'm going to gently link right here) but I got distracted by other things and writing ventures. 😭 Plus I just wanted an excuse to continue a fic that has a love-sick Squall and him finally getting to see his girlfriend again. I'm such an ass, I play up the pining so much that I know these characters are sick of me. LMFAO XD
The heat honestly makes focusing so much harder, but I'm in true belief that if there's upcoming fests or anything that you want to do, you absolutely should try to hold out hope for progress in the colder months. And hey! That's good you got back to playing some Animal Crossing, I got back into playing Stardew Valley myself and it has me by the throat. 😭 Revisiting games certainly does help when either thinking about something new to write or just vibing out to a classic.
I finished up The Successor Challenge for my second year in a row and honestly.... after my exposure to their first year of trying the Discord server, I absolutely have no interest in participating in that challenge ever again lol. This sounds insanely harsh, but the environment several others and myself experienced from the "fandom" (because despite what some of those people say, some were full of themselves) wasn't conducive for creating anything in.
So I'm going to purge all these negative feelings in things that genuinely make me happy and write about things that don't make me feel like I'm appealing to a fake audience of peers that look down on the type of work I put out.
Re: I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-09 08:31 pm (UTC)My personal experience with TSC was pretty underwhelming during the two years I participated. I first participated in 2018, the year I started writing fanfic, eager to share my fic with the community, and got a lukewarm response (some nice reviews from other fans, but not even a like from any of the aforementioned clique). I even did my due diligence to comment on other fics, and often received no response to those comments, not even a "thank you." I thought celebrating the fandom meant communicating with those in said fandom, but whatever. :/
I tried again in 2019 because I had a few stories I really wanted to tell, and by that time, I'd learned not to expect anything from the challenge itself or the individuals behind it, and I actually got a very good reception from people not in that core group. By 2020, the half-assed approach to the challenge by the organizer/s, in terms of prompts and rules, became crystal-clear, and I was tired of writing to the tune of people who didn't even care whether I contributed anything or not.
I am so sorry that you had to contend with this subset of the fandom (seriously, that "clarification" post on Tumblr just radiated that smug self-righteousness that I've come to associate with them). Best to forget them (or even block them, if you have to!) and move on. And I'm so glad to hear that you're doing that! Fandom is supposed to be fun, a place where we can explore themes and ideas and experiment with characters and storylines and identities in ways that we can't always express in the real world, for whatever reason. Write the stuff that makes you happy, and leave the restrictive clique in their little echo chamber.
Happy writing! 💕
Re: I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-10 10:09 pm (UTC)They are going to be making some changes to TSC and after what I just found out today about someone I thought I could at least feel comfortable in chatting with? Yeah no, she's just like the rest of them and blocked her too. Unfortunately for me Tumblr isn't the best at blocking, but at least Discord and Twitter is lmfao.
You are well within your right to feel that way. I have the screenshots to back why I feel the way that I do and after mass blocking specific tweets that Erica/EmeraldLatias posted with her nonchalantly TALKING about me on public spaces? Yeah no. I never want to be apart of anything having to do with that damn group. I am convinced that Erica is a mass manipulator or uses those tactics because when I had to do my mass blocking of those who interact with her on Twitter, I discovered a lot of hurt feelings that she expressed that were very much "woe as me" and very entitled. I was not at all a fan and I didn't enjoy the people that were trying to cater to her. I would like to hope she knows better, but she thereotically didn't.
So me and the FF8 folks I'm in a group with have decided to come up with ideas and ways to run a FF8 event ourselves. I love to interact with so many types of content that the fandom puts out. I have a few triggers, but otherwise, I just love variety and I love people having a good time creating what they enjoy.
I hope this message made since because I was replying while I was finding more HORRIFYING stuff regarding that Clique and I am still reeling. It's a bit awful when your own friends had a run in with one or multiple people from that circle of friends and I cannot even fathom what it means to know all these horror stories. My heart just hurts not only for myself, but for all of you that had such bad experiences. I know yours wasn't bad but it still doesn't erase the fact that you felt the way that you did. :c
Re: I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-10 11:04 pm (UTC)Also, it seemed to me from the TSC "news" post that the event is pretty much going to be confined to Discord in the future? Fine by me; they can have it.
I am so sorry for what you've gone through in what was supposed to be a group/event celebrating the fandom. I found your post referencing this on Tumblr, and my heart breaks just knowing how some people seem intent on policing what others create and consume, and how they themselves create such an unwelcoming atmosphere. Sending supportive virtual hugs your way. 💕
All that said, I'm intrigued about your ideas for future FF8 events! Best of luck to you in organizing those, and in carving out a welcoming space in the fandom where you can be yourself and enjoy every minute of it! 💕
Re: I believe in you! You got this!
Date: 2021-09-14 06:44 pm (UTC)Yeah they're just not great human beings, at all. One of them lures you in with a false sense of security that she gets you and before you know it, she turns around and double dogs you to her "friends". Honestly? With that sort of character, I was never meant to care about them in any way.
And it seems to me they want to keep fandom interaction within the Discord server, which lol, ok. Go off I suppose. I love using Discord to interact with fellow fans, sharing ideas and such, but I realize that I don't have to do that with everyone. I can keep my curated corner of cool folks I enjoy exchanging with regarding certain fandoms, and just keep it pushing.
I had to get one final thing off my chest on Tumblr regarding the whole thing (which includes screenshots so people can witness the horror themselves), and now I am finished giving anymore energy to the entire sordid debacle. Ooof, exhausting. I greatly thank you for sending your support, it just hurts to know that something that's supposed to celebrate the fandom and diversity regarding the types of stories told-- isn't shared at all. In fact, it's absolutely avoid because they feel there's nothing wrong with that.
And yes! I was talking with the person that runs the FF8 discord server I'm in and we think that we could pull off a prompt sort of event for next year (which, is hilarious because Alessia is hosting a prompt thing for Halloween and she's doing it... all sorts of wrong)? I need to figure out a few themes that me and the other mods can agree on and then select one to start off. So that way when people send in their prompts for a month, we can have a variety and then once prompting ends, it'll give time to have people select the prompts one at a time and fill them in!
I considered an exchange but FF8 fandom is so old and set in their ways that it'd be an absolute surprise to see if anyone even matches with anybody LMFAO. I'd have to stick my feelers out after this event and see how it runs.