736 words today, less than half the 1,667/day rate that will hit 50k by November 30. But I tend to snowball over time once a project gets started, so I'm not worried about that. I went to bed crazy tired last night, which led to one of those "sleep so hard it beats you up" nights and was groggy all day. Gonna get better sleep tonight and crank away on it tomorrow.
Also, inspired in no small part by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mooncat_chelion, I'm going to make an effort to post more regularly here as part of the whole NaNo thing. I used to be pretty darn chatty on LiveJournal, and would love to see DreamWidth build more community as well.
Some of the "long form discussion" I crave and miss, I can find on Tumblr, but the problem there is that the format makes it hard to follow any given thread. Posts appear, get re-posted as comments are put on them, or re-re-posted by other people you follow, and so on, and in short order the conversation is either completely fragmented, or lost in the noise as Tumblr tosses up another reblog of another different discussion, ad infinitum.
In the past several years I've been more in the reblog/retweet mode than original posting mode as well, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I spent so much of the time from 2009/2010 forward dealing with ailing/dying parents, ailing/dying friends, financial problems, and a long list of other things that I really just didn't want to write about because my journal would have been little more than a long list of laments. But as weird as it may sound with the current state of the nation et al., on a personal level I feel like I've finally emerged from a dark tunnel and things are starting to improve for me... and I expect that continue and accelerate from here.
Hopefully that will open up the creative floodgates and let my muse return to the surface. Grief takes a shit-ton of energy that could be way better put towards writing Fictionlets, blathering about anything and everything I find interesting, or coming up with stupid filks.
So instead of multi-post Twitter threads, long rambles on Tumblr, and so on, I'm going to try to cement my habit of posting here, and I'm going to keep looking for cool and interesting people and communities on DreamWidth to follow. :)
Now... to see if I can figure out how to add RSS feeds to my Reading page...
-The Gneech
Also, inspired in no small part by
mooncat_chelion, I'm going to make an effort to post more regularly here as part of the whole NaNo thing. I used to be pretty darn chatty on LiveJournal, and would love to see DreamWidth build more community as well.Some of the "long form discussion" I crave and miss, I can find on Tumblr, but the problem there is that the format makes it hard to follow any given thread. Posts appear, get re-posted as comments are put on them, or re-re-posted by other people you follow, and so on, and in short order the conversation is either completely fragmented, or lost in the noise as Tumblr tosses up another reblog of another different discussion, ad infinitum.
In the past several years I've been more in the reblog/retweet mode than original posting mode as well, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I spent so much of the time from 2009/2010 forward dealing with ailing/dying parents, ailing/dying friends, financial problems, and a long list of other things that I really just didn't want to write about because my journal would have been little more than a long list of laments. But as weird as it may sound with the current state of the nation et al., on a personal level I feel like I've finally emerged from a dark tunnel and things are starting to improve for me... and I expect that continue and accelerate from here.
Hopefully that will open up the creative floodgates and let my muse return to the surface. Grief takes a shit-ton of energy that could be way better put towards writing Fictionlets, blathering about anything and everything I find interesting, or coming up with stupid filks.
So instead of multi-post Twitter threads, long rambles on Tumblr, and so on, I'm going to try to cement my habit of posting here, and I'm going to keep looking for cool and interesting people and communities on DreamWidth to follow. :)
Now... to see if I can figure out how to add RSS feeds to my Reading page...
-The Gneech
