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I suppose this is another one of those "Oops, haven't updated this stuff in ages" posts. Hello, people! I'm still around, more or less!
What have I been up to lately? Writing a lot of fanfic, and poking rather morosely at the type of fiction that is not based on someone else's setting. It's not so much that having the setting pre-made is easier (though it is) or that it's nice to be able to skip the exposition by knowing the readers are already on board (though that's true) or that I can relax a lot more when I don't have to make the setting make any sense (though that does make research a lot faster); it's just that fanfic has such lower expectations, I can just...finish things. Without worrying about editing them.
I am so miserably bad at editing, and find it so stressful, that "I'll fix it in the edit" has stopped being a helpful reminder to keep on writing, and instead some sort of threat. Everything I don't get right the first time will turn into a big fix-it project later, in which I have to intently concentrate on all the flaws in my writing and the ways in which it failed, while attempting desperately to patch things without tearing new holes in anything else.
I may have wandered off topic slightly.
Um. What else. Dog is fine (if still panicking about walks, sigh). Cat is fine. Spouse is fine (despite sleep schedule wonkiness, poor man). Roommate is fine. I am pretty much fine. Life is going pretty well! I'm only taking one class, and it's going just fine.
Well. Mostly fine. I am writing this entry right now instead of doing my Latin homework. Aheh. Um. Yes. Well. I should probably get to that soon.
It looks like I'm going to spend the summer failing to review Greek adequately, and the fall trying to take two difficult Greek classes and audit a difficult Latin class, so that should be...fun? We'll see.
What have I been up to lately? Writing a lot of fanfic, and poking rather morosely at the type of fiction that is not based on someone else's setting. It's not so much that having the setting pre-made is easier (though it is) or that it's nice to be able to skip the exposition by knowing the readers are already on board (though that's true) or that I can relax a lot more when I don't have to make the setting make any sense (though that does make research a lot faster); it's just that fanfic has such lower expectations, I can just...finish things. Without worrying about editing them.
I am so miserably bad at editing, and find it so stressful, that "I'll fix it in the edit" has stopped being a helpful reminder to keep on writing, and instead some sort of threat. Everything I don't get right the first time will turn into a big fix-it project later, in which I have to intently concentrate on all the flaws in my writing and the ways in which it failed, while attempting desperately to patch things without tearing new holes in anything else.
I may have wandered off topic slightly.
Um. What else. Dog is fine (if still panicking about walks, sigh). Cat is fine. Spouse is fine (despite sleep schedule wonkiness, poor man). Roommate is fine. I am pretty much fine. Life is going pretty well! I'm only taking one class, and it's going just fine.
Well. Mostly fine. I am writing this entry right now instead of doing my Latin homework. Aheh. Um. Yes. Well. I should probably get to that soon.
It looks like I'm going to spend the summer failing to review Greek adequately, and the fall trying to take two difficult Greek classes and audit a difficult Latin class, so that should be...fun? We'll see.