May Brings Virtual Conventions...
Here be the personal bits from my May writing newsletter. The whole thing is here: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2020.html#052420
Thoughts in Passing
Do what you can. That's my big thought for the month. Do what you can. If you can only do a tiny bit of writing, do that tiny bit. Congratulations, you did something!
If being even that active feels exhausting, figure out something that you can do passively that will work towards your goal of being a better writer. Maybe that's listening to a good writing podcast. Maybe that's attending a virtual convention (::waves::). Maybe that's rereading a favorite book and thinking about what makes it a favorite for you.
And if you're more productive than ever right now, good for you!
We're all doing what we can, and that's enough.
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I've attended two online conferences in a row! As I type this, I am watching the Guest of Honor speeches at Wiscon online. Last week, I attended the Flights of Foundry virtual conference, which was fabulous. I recommend you to go sign up for the newsletter so that you get notified about the panel videos once they are released (https://flights-of-foundry.org/newsletter/). My writing-related TBR pile has grown enormously!
If you can't attend a virtual convention, I've included a link below to a YouTube video of me running a cyberpunk story-building activity at the last Fargo CoreCon! I had fun doing it; hopefully you'll also have fun watching it.
Recently, I've started doing the #vss365 micro-stories/writing prompt/freewriting on Twitter, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. This is my favorite so far. I'll probably expand it into a full story a bit down the line.
... I've really been enjoying the online conventions, not least because it allows me to mostly hide in the attic and foist the childcare off onto my grouchy-but-supportive spouse! And I've gotten a lot of interesting thoughts from the panels, and social time from the Discords and Zoom meetings. It's making me feel more motivated to write again, which is something I need.
Originally posted at https://cloudscudding.dreamwidth.org/1133803.html on Dreamwidth.org.