More of the Same
January was a month of change, and much reflection. A terrible bout of crippling writer's block was part of it, too. I didn't start writing again until the last few days of January, and spent the rest of the month cleaning, watching TV, and assembling a puzzle.
I still don't have goals for February, but at least I have some answers to the questions in January. The theme of change continues as I stumbled into finding a new job that pays better with benefits and vacation time and all the good things I never had before. It starts the last week of February, though I'll still be making cookies up until then. It's full-time, however, so any free time for writing will be weekends only now. At least I have weekends again.
This means commissions are officially closed until further notice. I have several I've already accepted that I'm going to finish, albeit a bit slower than I'd like, but I won't be able to take any more. It's going to take time to get into a rhythm with the new job, which also includes an adjustment to my sleep schedule, and the pay raise means I won't need commissions to afford groceries anymore so that's a plus.
Part and parcel to not having time to take commissions, I feel I really need to focus on re-discovering the joy of writing again. I feel I've really lost touch with that, which is what fed the discouragement I was continually feeling in regards to my work. To that end, I am pulling back from posting as much as I do, and am focusing on writing nothing but self-indulgent things.
Still, nothing is being abandoned. I do intend to eventually come back and finish all of my many, many WIPs. It's just going to take a long time, and I probably won't post them as chapters here and there, but in a bulk post once the whole thing is finished.
All of my original writing, however, is on definite hold. I'm not going to stress on trying to get anything finished or published, because honestly, it's not selling. So clearly I need a lot of improvement, to be more creative and interesting, and to have time to properly market myself. None of which I will have with this new job and I don't want that discouragement right now either. So. On hold for at least the year of 2017 (if the world or my country doesn't devolve into outright war that is).
So February is more of the same from January. Expect more frequent posting as I clear out my folder of edited stuff and try to start with a fresh slate. Tumblr will probably have a lot of word dumps from self-indulgent random shorts.
Huge thanks to everyone who has been steadily supporting me throughout the years. Without all of you, I probably would have never kept on writing. <3
See you next month! This entry was originally posted at http://dracoqueen22.dreamwidth.org/360355.html. Feel free to comment wherever you find most convenient.
I still don't have goals for February, but at least I have some answers to the questions in January. The theme of change continues as I stumbled into finding a new job that pays better with benefits and vacation time and all the good things I never had before. It starts the last week of February, though I'll still be making cookies up until then. It's full-time, however, so any free time for writing will be weekends only now. At least I have weekends again.
This means commissions are officially closed until further notice. I have several I've already accepted that I'm going to finish, albeit a bit slower than I'd like, but I won't be able to take any more. It's going to take time to get into a rhythm with the new job, which also includes an adjustment to my sleep schedule, and the pay raise means I won't need commissions to afford groceries anymore so that's a plus.
Part and parcel to not having time to take commissions, I feel I really need to focus on re-discovering the joy of writing again. I feel I've really lost touch with that, which is what fed the discouragement I was continually feeling in regards to my work. To that end, I am pulling back from posting as much as I do, and am focusing on writing nothing but self-indulgent things.
Still, nothing is being abandoned. I do intend to eventually come back and finish all of my many, many WIPs. It's just going to take a long time, and I probably won't post them as chapters here and there, but in a bulk post once the whole thing is finished.
All of my original writing, however, is on definite hold. I'm not going to stress on trying to get anything finished or published, because honestly, it's not selling. So clearly I need a lot of improvement, to be more creative and interesting, and to have time to properly market myself. None of which I will have with this new job and I don't want that discouragement right now either. So. On hold for at least the year of 2017 (if the world or my country doesn't devolve into outright war that is).
So February is more of the same from January. Expect more frequent posting as I clear out my folder of edited stuff and try to start with a fresh slate. Tumblr will probably have a lot of word dumps from self-indulgent random shorts.
Huge thanks to everyone who has been steadily supporting me throughout the years. Without all of you, I probably would have never kept on writing. <3
See you next month! This entry was originally posted at http://dracoqueen22.dreamwidth.org/360355.html. Feel free to comment wherever you find most convenient.