Is this thing on?
Jun. 20th, 2021 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mugenmine So I'm writing again. Yes, it's been about (checks last entry) over 5 years since I updated this journal, but I'm back on a weird writing journey and life is weird and reading through my old entries makes me laugh so I figure why not update a journal on a platform that is basically dormant? Probably because this has always just been me talking to myself about how ridiculous everything is... and also writing bits.
Also I wanted to look back and see what my editing process looked like back in the day when editing was a bloodsport in which slashing words were like kill-notches and the more drafts the better. Yeah I've forgotten how to do all that during the five years where I forgot how to write. (Wow I just read through the editing arc of my final Johnlock fic, wow. It's kind of a contact sport... but a good refresher for the wording hellscape ahead...)
I've only been at it for.. a month? Overnight I went from "what is words?" to 200 words a day, then 300 words a day, to dusting off an old original short story and adding another 7K to it, and then kicking off a 12-chapter long fic and it's like... whaaaaaat is my brain doing, but oh yeah I think I like this!
Maybe it was pandemic that slowed me down, maybe it was real-life writing burn out. In the 5 years since I started my current job, I've not really written anything, didn't really think I had it in me as I do a lot of writing for my job and work long days, but I guess that was a lie? I guess I just needed to find that headspace again, and it seems that it is possible.
I really thought that after I fell out of the Sherlock fandom that that was the end of all fandom. That it was done "all of fandom things ever, that doesn't apply to me anymore," but there you go. Things changed...
The space does feel differnt though. I dusted off the old Tumblr, spun up my old Twitter and was delighted to see that so many folks from the days before are still around in various fandoms, with new interests and old ones still intact. What I loved so much about fandom were the folks I interacted with, all of the cool creative people, making cool creative things alongside eachother, and that part of fandom hasn't manifested itself yet, but its conforting to see that everyone seems to be doing ok.
Anywho, I'm still writing in the MCU, I actually found that fic I was babbling about back in 2015 and had NO MEMORY OF WRITING IT! It was kind of like the shoemaking elves, you go to bed with some materials lying around on the floor and wake up and find a fully formed first draft in your scrivener files, a one-shot and a half-baked terrible part of a sequel. The first draft is salvagable. Thank you 2015 me for getting some shit done. Anywho. I think I'm back to process blogging...? Maybe?
Also I wanted to look back and see what my editing process looked like back in the day when editing was a bloodsport in which slashing words were like kill-notches and the more drafts the better. Yeah I've forgotten how to do all that during the five years where I forgot how to write. (Wow I just read through the editing arc of my final Johnlock fic, wow. It's kind of a contact sport... but a good refresher for the wording hellscape ahead...)
I've only been at it for.. a month? Overnight I went from "what is words?" to 200 words a day, then 300 words a day, to dusting off an old original short story and adding another 7K to it, and then kicking off a 12-chapter long fic and it's like... whaaaaaat is my brain doing, but oh yeah I think I like this!
Maybe it was pandemic that slowed me down, maybe it was real-life writing burn out. In the 5 years since I started my current job, I've not really written anything, didn't really think I had it in me as I do a lot of writing for my job and work long days, but I guess that was a lie? I guess I just needed to find that headspace again, and it seems that it is possible.
I really thought that after I fell out of the Sherlock fandom that that was the end of all fandom. That it was done "all of fandom things ever, that doesn't apply to me anymore," but there you go. Things changed...
The space does feel differnt though. I dusted off the old Tumblr, spun up my old Twitter and was delighted to see that so many folks from the days before are still around in various fandoms, with new interests and old ones still intact. What I loved so much about fandom were the folks I interacted with, all of the cool creative people, making cool creative things alongside eachother, and that part of fandom hasn't manifested itself yet, but its conforting to see that everyone seems to be doing ok.
Anywho, I'm still writing in the MCU, I actually found that fic I was babbling about back in 2015 and had NO MEMORY OF WRITING IT! It was kind of like the shoemaking elves, you go to bed with some materials lying around on the floor and wake up and find a fully formed first draft in your scrivener files, a one-shot and a half-baked terrible part of a sequel. The first draft is salvagable. Thank you 2015 me for getting some shit done. Anywho. I think I'm back to process blogging...? Maybe?
