exceptions can be made for sufficiently awesome palazzo pants or shorts. bike shorts or chub rub or whatever doesn’t count as pants, they’re underwear.
I’m going to start posting a thing whenever I meet my writing goal for the week. This is for last week’s goal. Also a flex on actually learning to make croissants! Let’s see it the knowledge persists outside of the classroom…
Not a bad resolution, really. Especially if I don't force it to be anything in particular. I wish I had some kind of simple flowchart/choose your own adventure system where i could populate it with a bunch of prompts, and set a series of questions about what do I feel like writing today.
I like having written, I like having made things. And in the middle of the process, I'm pretty good with it as well. I just...it's hard to start, to decide that I actually have something to say. So giving myself less choice in *what* to write may actually help me in *starting* the writing. Plus I can generate writing prompts okay, I just don't want to have to select one and make it be load-bearing for the day.
Here's the kind of flowchart I'm envisioning:
Fiction or nonfiction?
Fiction: fanwork or original?
Fanwork: Sharon from Agatha All Along has a garden after death, Cliopher has the flu and needs a cozy day, Pacific Rim nerdboys get into drift-related shenanigans, TF2 Medic/Pyro kink...
Fanwork-related: why I love HotE, Penric, what grinds my gears about Nightmare Before Christmas, fanrant on magic types...
Original: worldbuild or character or plot?
Worldbuild: write up the Orcish Empires, write up the Drow/Duergar lost-one mythos, write up more backstory for the Island...
Character: a deeper look at the dreamer from After the Fall, character studies like AtF, more on Melusine's Hound / the Auditor...
Plot: more on Melusine's Hound, more on After the Fall...
Nonfiction: personal or distanced?
Personal: memory or presentday? painful or pleasant? descriptive or contemplative?
Distanced: metaphorical or pragmatic topics? Politics, nature, metaphysics, ethics? Making things or pondering things?
It feels like if I could put together a questionnaire that spits out a response depending on my mood, I might be able to write on that response more deeply. Rather than browsing the list of prompts and going "nope none of these sing to me". Just enough external-requirement pressure to create - like a yuletide fic prompt, or the bounds of a sonnet.
Hm. Sonnet. Add that on here. Fiction, nonfiction, or poetry?
So between perimenopause and fibroids and other associated crap, I’ve been having longer and longer and heavier and heavier periods.
Naturally I started thinking of this in terms of Pacific Rim.
“Originally we were experiencing a uterine event every four weeks. That frequency and intensity continues to increase geometrically . By my calculations in mere days we will experience simultaneous uterine events!!!”
*staggers out of bathroom, discreetly takes iron pill from a little tin* Restart the clock.
I told my sister about it, and she asked if that means I’m calling my uterus The Rift.