Whispers

Since We Talked Last

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:57:48 GMT

Wrote:

12 poems and 70 lines, crossposted nothing

6 unrevealed ficlets and 1 just not crossposted

a scene list sort of thingy on my WIP

Not what I was hoping but not half bad. I was hoping to get more down on WIP. I know where I’m heading with it, just haven’t had time/energy/headspace to get it down yet.

I’ve also finished getting a PDF file ready of What Lies Before, a collection of original short stories, which I will get into download access and possibly a gumroad before I try and figure out how to actually publish it properly, because that last sounds more tiring than it ought.

Still, that’s prepped, which is great.

I also pulled 5 pieces out of first access into freely available, so I’ll get there on posting links to those soon too.

On the health front, I went to a new doctor yesterday for insurance reasons to establish care, who is willing to keep my other doctor in the loop, which is awesome. And lo! There is hope for me yet. I have a structural issue apparently that’s preventing my getting enough oxygen or draining stuff the way I should, which technically I always kind of knew. From childhood, my breathing options were constrained, I just didn’t realize they meant I’m literally never getting enough oxygen, and I’ve always been so stuffed up, I can barely smell.

Shocker. These things have health consequences, so my doctor gave me a potential nonsurgical option to check out, which I will do as soon as we wrap up all this car and post-vacation business. Because quality of life! Not dragging around tired and depressed all the time! This would be good!

About that, CAR! I loved our beautiful, old faithful, 2005 sedan but it was… time to retire it. We got a new car on Friday, which has eaten a chunk into budget and time bank, but so worth it. A beautiful Hyundai Santa Fe Sport and I will eventually get used to how her responsiveness differs greatly from the sedan. Mostly, I will eventually stop turning on the windshield wipers when I’m trying to reverse because our gear shaft is now in between the seats instead of on the steering wheel. I drove like an amateur yesterday on my first time out in her. Oh well.

Hope you’re all doing well! Lots of love!

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Today's Haul: Poetry and Prose

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 05:09:41 GMT

So I was horrible at running Patreon and crossposting last year and here’s hoping to be slightly better. I intend to take everything posted on first access in 2019 and make it free by the end of the month.

Posted for first access ($1/mo.) today are three poems, all written today:

labels – I could be bold / like the colors of ancient crayons / unlikely adjectives sprawled / over the yellow labels…

a name – call me something, anything, / I used to say, / as though just having a name / was good, though it wasn’t…

lamp on the wood – bright lamp on the wood beside my window / keeping watch with steady eye and yellow…

Available for free on website and AO3, fanfic:

In Small Moments (Bourne Movies): Nicky Parsons/Jason Bourne – The asset wasn’t known for tender compassion or warmth. If he was, Nicky assumed, he wouldn’t be an asset. But there was a certain amount of liability in being an obvious plant that disappeared at irregular intervals, always when someone of import within the country died, and there was something to be said for the traditional old standbys for covers. [on AO3], [on website]

The last was written for Happy Belated Treatmas 2019 for Ashling, who prompted arranged marriage and tenderness and hurt/comfort and upon discovering Bourne was an option, this AU just sprang into my head, basically because arranged marriage fit so well with the whole undercover asset thing and having a relationship that was both professional and intensely personal. I really loved stepping back into Nicky’s head for a minute and was really happy the recipient liked it.

I’ll get my other Treatmas fics crossposted soonish.

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A New Year

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 03:37:44 GMT

I could totally do goals! I could. I had a good 2019 for writing goals, bad on some fronts, but better than if I hadn’t had the goals.

2019’s Writing Goals:

Finish 1000 poems

Finish 365 ficlets (fanfic one-shots count here even if longer)

Finish 52 original short stories

2019’s Accomplishments: Well, to start off with, I haven’t properly run all the numbers, but I’ll take a stab at the poetry despite not having finished typing things up.

Finished more than 1000 poems (980ish typed and we won’t discuss the backlog of in notebook, not typed)

Finished 213 fanfic or original ficlets

Finished 9 original short stories

Boy, do I want to move that #3 needle, but that wasn’t a bad 3rd run at writing prose daily. Not what I wanted, but not bad.

So next year: I want to do all the things, to be honest. I want to finish writing books, compiling anthologies, finish those gift stories I never did because the guilt hangs over my head all the time, and I want to finish short stories too. I want to crosspost things to patreon and publish every week, so people have a reason to subscribe, and collect the month’s haul of writing into something publishable, and the truth is I haven’t compiled reasonable goals yet. I could keep up with the average 3 poems/day and that wouldn’t be hard, but I truly want to focus in on producing and making available fiction.

Ah, we’ll see what happens.

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Failing to Success

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:52:54 GMT

That’s something I learned from a writer who does a lot of challenges: failing to success. So I failed to write anything longer than 1400 words, aka those short stories I want to get done. I also failed to finish the particular treats and late treats I wanted to.

That said, I wrote 100 poems and 33 ficlets in January. Not all of which are posted on AO3 yet or in the case of the poems, to tumblr. Still, that makes me super happy. Next month, short stories!

Hope you’re all doing well on your own goals.

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In the Course of Challenge Events

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:40:03 GMT

So the goal by the end of the month is to have:

27 ficlets

4 short stories

93 poems

At the moment, I’ve logged:

24 ficlets

91 poems

0 short stories

Despite my best efforts. Technically, there are 11 poems waiting to be typed up, so I’m on track for poetry and three days to add three ficlets, so doing fine there too. It’s the short stories that is a slight problem. And of course, there’s Chocolate Box, which could either help or hinder. We’ll have to see which.

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I had great plans

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:36:17 GMT

And I spent most of my time this weekend reading and commenting and giving kudos for the Exchanges After Dark discord server’s birthday bash, which was a badfic and badart exchange. I have not yet doled out comment replies.

General update on the year’s writing goals (which I still haven’t gone back and finished adding stats for last year :grimace: ). Thirteen days in and we’re at:

14 ficlets: 2 original, 12 fanfic

54 original passing poems and 2 fannish bad poems that I am not counting

0 short stories

And technically a little novel work too, which is good. So in short, not a bad start but not quite where I want to be. Still, I’m grateful.

I need to put a day of treating in on Fandom Stocking, I have a shortlist of candidates but yesterday, my brain wanted to write crack and uh, yeah, not what was requested. Also, can’t wait to shift to treating Chocolate Box.

I’m still reading Sun Knight. Hulu has been in and out and my favorite overstimulated-right-now crash method of watching singing competition shows has been largely cut off. I’m not happy. Also, since when did one trip to the nearby grocery store wipe me out this bad? Gotta do something to get my nerves back under control. I lost two hours to aftermath coping.

Hope you’re all doing well!

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July Stats Stuff

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:08:27 GMT

Wrote 52 poems, most (not all) are posted on my tumblr poetry tag

Posted 7 revealed works on AO3, another 7 on my sock

I wanted to get more stuff done than that, but tbh, that’s not a bad haul, despite how many are drabbles.

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Day 140 of the Daily Challenges

Tue, 22 May 2018 14:43:23 GMT

Today is Day 140 in the year and I have written:

95 drabbles, 66 of which were fanfic

279 poems

Poem a day is going splendidly. I’m pleased at the absolute number of drabbles, but I also definitely want to pick it up.

In non-drabble fiction, I’ve posted 10 non-drabble fanfics this year that didn’t end up under a sock. So not bad, even if not where I want to end up. Started original fic novel but it’s not done yet, so does it count? In the interest of full stats, I’m 16,000 words into that.

So I’m telling my brain, this ain’t been a bad year so far.

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