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clevermanka) wrote2020-06-08 11:49 am
clevermanka) wrote2020-06-08 11:49 am
Considering productivity
Guardian/adjacent:
I know poor Zhu Yilong hated the ponytail, but... 😍
This l-o-n-g thread of someone livetweeting as they watch Guardian (not finished yet, pray for them)
Fanart: Soft gaze and kisses. Gorgeous art of Zhu Yilong in some of his questionable styling. Shen Wei to Envoy animation. Up up and away! Nothing like laughing at the thing that hurts you! How about we take off these glasses...
Mirror!
Continued thanks tonaye and wrote_and_writ for these.
A few different people posted this weekend about wasted-feeling days and I've been feeling that feel, too. I want to get more done, writing-wise, than I have been, and I feel like I could if I just better focused. So I'm committing to spending less time online (sob!) and more time writing as well as doing a few things I've let slide for way too long (like my taxes).
First experiment is spending an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon on various social media platforms (prioritizing DW!). I'll probably scroll through Tumblr for some pretty before bed, too. On Wednesdays and Fridays I have to keep my email open for the open threads I run on cm.net but others days the only browser window I'll keep open is YouTube for my writing playlists.
I tried it yesterday to great success. Over a thousand words on Deconstruction, 600 on Fit to be Tied (corset fic title--obvious perhaps, but memorable!), and a significant amount done on a non-fandom project I'm helping someone else with (which I would call Secret Project except that makes it sound super mysterious which it's not, I just don't feel comfortable talking about someone else's work in public--perhaps Other Project works).
Inspiration for this came when last week I got a Kudos email and I realized: Things I wrote made ten people happy enough that they left kudos for me. In one day I gave at least ten people a bright enough spot that they were moved to tell me about it by clicking the kudos button. That was very motivating. So yeah. A little less online time for me for a week's trial run.
If it doesn't work, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I was already in a position where most of my friends lived on the internet, but now they all do! Well, with the exception of the two darlings who've come by to yell at me from my lawn. It's going to be tough not reaching out for human contact whenever the mood strikes. And honestly, considering the state of the world I'm not going to feel bad if I need that. But it's something to try.
Of course not much writing is happening today because I hardly slept at all last night and couldn't even haul myself out of bed until 10am. The thought of using my brain for much right now is laughable. Every once in a while I'm reminded that no, I'm actually not capable of finding and holding down a new job. I could manage my old one fine because I had years of accrued leave I could take whenever I needed to and I knew the work well enough I could almost literally do it in my sleep. Something new, though? Where I would have to rely on a regularly-functioning brain and body? Sigh. Nope.
Ah well. I can write fic. I can send letters to friends and policy makers. I can care for my tiny household. Those things aren't nothing!
I know poor Zhu Yilong hated the ponytail, but... 😍
This l-o-n-g thread of someone livetweeting as they watch Guardian (not finished yet, pray for them)
Fanart: Soft gaze and kisses. Gorgeous art of Zhu Yilong in some of his questionable styling. Shen Wei to Envoy animation. Up up and away! Nothing like laughing at the thing that hurts you! How about we take off these glasses...
Mirror!
Continued thanks to
naye and wrote_and_writ for these.A few different people posted this weekend about wasted-feeling days and I've been feeling that feel, too. I want to get more done, writing-wise, than I have been, and I feel like I could if I just better focused. So I'm committing to spending less time online (sob!) and more time writing as well as doing a few things I've let slide for way too long (like my taxes).
First experiment is spending an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon on various social media platforms (prioritizing DW!). I'll probably scroll through Tumblr for some pretty before bed, too. On Wednesdays and Fridays I have to keep my email open for the open threads I run on cm.net but others days the only browser window I'll keep open is YouTube for my writing playlists.
I tried it yesterday to great success. Over a thousand words on Deconstruction, 600 on Fit to be Tied (corset fic title--obvious perhaps, but memorable!), and a significant amount done on a non-fandom project I'm helping someone else with (which I would call Secret Project except that makes it sound super mysterious which it's not, I just don't feel comfortable talking about someone else's work in public--perhaps Other Project works).
Inspiration for this came when last week I got a Kudos email and I realized: Things I wrote made ten people happy enough that they left kudos for me. In one day I gave at least ten people a bright enough spot that they were moved to tell me about it by clicking the kudos button. That was very motivating. So yeah. A little less online time for me for a week's trial run.
If it doesn't work, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I was already in a position where most of my friends lived on the internet, but now they all do! Well, with the exception of the two darlings who've come by to yell at me from my lawn. It's going to be tough not reaching out for human contact whenever the mood strikes. And honestly, considering the state of the world I'm not going to feel bad if I need that. But it's something to try.
Of course not much writing is happening today because I hardly slept at all last night and couldn't even haul myself out of bed until 10am. The thought of using my brain for much right now is laughable. Every once in a while I'm reminded that no, I'm actually not capable of finding and holding down a new job. I could manage my old one fine because I had years of accrued leave I could take whenever I needed to and I knew the work well enough I could almost literally do it in my sleep. Something new, though? Where I would have to rely on a regularly-functioning brain and body? Sigh. Nope.
Ah well. I can write fic. I can send letters to friends and policy makers. I can care for my tiny household. Those things aren't nothing!
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OHHHH wow, that is so beautiful. ♥
And thank you for linking that long, charming Guardian thread!
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I had the biggest silly grin on my face the entire time reading these. I live for these kinds of first time reactions. :D :D :D
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I feel you! I'm afraid to add up how much time I waste every day nnooottt qquuittte getting started--just one more glance at something online, and then... . Hopefully we can all work out a balance between enough time offline to get things done, whether the fun writing kind or work/taxes/other tasks, and enough time online to share the good stuff and encourage one another.
(Also, that mirror Refa ad thing is EXTREMELY CREEPY in a gorgeous kind of way and if you told me the whole thing was taking place in an evil alternate universe I would not doubt it for one minute.)
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EXACTLY.
If there's another Sundial exchange, I'm definitely signing up to write a Refa mirror ad AU 100%.
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and *hugs*
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Pretty sure Shen Wei would agree 😆
Hugs back, bb.
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I know poor Zhu Yilong hated the ponytail, but... 😍
Eh, but it was his own idea in the first place! I can imagine that extensions are annoying indeed. (I thought he'd actually grown out his hair, that would have been much less annoying.)
That painting of him is amazing. <3
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I just watched all his MTF interviews last week, and it was news to me until then that they were extensions.
Here's the relevant interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0q0189Kkg&list=PLSX9f3sOgN-TbOVBaZrQs5bRoqzqL5_BU&index=29
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