#heartshapedkey

[wispwillowgrove]

So, I think I saw you mention once that you were thinking of starting a pastel goth society and I was wondering if that was something you were still thinking about doing or not.

at one point spacecoatl and i were talking it out some but then someone else made one so it was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i think that person has left fr bc they were found out to be impersonating someone else though so like, if you’re asking bc you’re interested in doing so, i’d say go for it (just make a post about it in the forums first to like gather ideas from other pastel goth breeders so that it’s cohesive/agreed upon/etc!!!)

or if you were just curious disregard that second part lmao

[hobbitunderthemountain]

heartshapedkey replied to your post:i spent all day out with my parents and ended up...

Camp NaNo starts Wed! It’s not too late to sign up! mm8fic even started a Tolkien cabin. You can come hang out with us!

i’VE THOUGHT ABOUT DOING CAMP NANO but i still have to finish my nano from last year and i’ve got so many other things i need to finish first!!!! cause i’m so bad about finishing projects goddamn;; 

[artwheat]

Inspired by heartshapedkey’s tags

[writersgym]

So, now that's February, what's going on with The Writer's Gym? Are you still running it?

I am, I'm sorry I have not been more active, this month had a major disruption for me right in the middle that stole a great deal of my public-facing motivation. May I ask, how would you like to proceed?

[writersgym]

I know you've said somewhere before that you have multiple projects going at any one time, so I was wondering if you had any general advice about writing and editing two different projects at the same time? I want to finish writing Foundling for a Hobbit Big Bang in April but I really need to finish editing Beskel for the HRBB. I'm thinking about using the kids' nap time to write my 1k while using bed time for editing since that tends to be more time consuming for me.

Honey, if I knew how to do that my productivity would SKYROCKET, lol. 

But to answer your question as best I can: I'm a chronic starter. I love starting new projects, however if I don't finish them in one sitting then sometimes I never finish them at all. I love the idea of stories, but apparently I have some subconscious fear of completing them, because then I have to leave that world behind. For me, an incomplete story is still a living story, whereas my completed ones are on some level dead to me.

As for advice, one reason I have so many projects is because each story has its own mood. When I start writing on a given day, I'm not always in the mood for, say, a dark story of despair, isolation, and redemption (PtBS) or a mad-cap ensemble piece with action and adventure (Mad Baggins) or a love story (lay your troubles down), interrogation and manipulation (Hide Not Thy Poison), horror (Nightmares), or a different fandom altogether (To Be Human, The Road from Hell). So I jump between different projects until I've got the right mood and the right music, and then no matter what I pick I feel guilty because I'm not working on original stories that would actually advance my career, lol. 

So for me, writing two stories at once is not about advancing multiple projects, it's about staying busy when I have very changeable moods and not a lot of discipline. It's about keeping it fun, because I have no self-control and writing is hard :P

[pokeberry5]

Art by redren5

Beshkel by heartshapedkey

In the wake of the Battle of the Five Armies, Dwalin finds himself dealing with the emotional fallout of the Company's gold sickness while wondering if Bilbo will still want to pursue a relationship with the dwarf when he wakes up from his coma.

If he wakes up.

Open Your Eyes by resacon1990

"The Burglar?" Thorin cuts him off. He has to know. He has to know.

Balin takes a deep breath, and Thorin feels like the world is dropping out from below him as Balin gently says, "we found him on the battlefield-"