Sooooo... Less than 2 months to Get It Done
I'm going away for a few days. Of *course* I'll be Getting It Done on my long lonely train journeys and in tedious hotel rooms with 13 TV channels you don't want to watch, which have lousy reception too and where the wifi only works up to the third floor while you're on the eighth. No, I won't be downstairs in the bar, drinking to forget. Nope.
Meantime, you are also going to be Getting It Done, right? I know some of you have been making great progress, and that's *awesome*. I beam with pleasure at the knowledge. Go, champs, go! *\o/**\o/**\o/**\o/*
But I suspect some of you have reached the Laptop Chewing Stage (Fig. A). Where things just WON'T COME OUT RIGHT. DAMMIT. Or where the drafting is okaaaaay, but the editing is making you tear your hair out. Please don't be tearing your hair, nor chewing the laptop. Take a break. Have a cuppa. Go for a walk. Your fanwork will thank you for it. So will your computer and your bank balance.
Figure A:
Some of you, though, may be in more of a place of Sloth (Fig. B). It may or may not involve actual pajamas. We do not judge. In which case, (*draws breath*) ON YOUR FEET SOLDIER WHEN I TELL YOU TO, GET TO THAT COMPUTER AND GEEEEEEERRRRTTTTT CCCCCREEEEEAAAAAAAATTTTING COZ NOBODY WILL DO IT FOR YOU, ARE YOU HEARIN' ME SOLDIER?? GOT IT?
Figure B:
(*breathes*)
In more productive support: some resources you may know or not, suggested and tested by fellow comm members:
Absolute Write's Show Your Work forum - get a critique from writers, published and aspiring
It's almost nanowrimo, and art and meta equivalents abound. Need motivation to do an INSANELY HUGE QUANTITY of fanworking in November? You won't be alone with Nano.
Writing Fight Scenes - a reference tool if you struggle with violence on the page
Any more suggestions? I'll gladly update here if so.
Lastly, a self-serving deadline reminder:
It may already be time to mention that the deadline for posting is the first week of December, but you're welcome to post here before then if you're all done with a project you signed up with. I may have to post in a couple of weeks because one of my commitments got accidentally entangled with another ficathon. Please don't make me be first to post to my own comm...
Meantime, you are also going to be Getting It Done, right? I know some of you have been making great progress, and that's *awesome*. I beam with pleasure at the knowledge. Go, champs, go! *\o/**\o/**\o/**\o/*
But I suspect some of you have reached the Laptop Chewing Stage (Fig. A). Where things just WON'T COME OUT RIGHT. DAMMIT. Or where the drafting is okaaaaay, but the editing is making you tear your hair out. Please don't be tearing your hair, nor chewing the laptop. Take a break. Have a cuppa. Go for a walk. Your fanwork will thank you for it. So will your computer and your bank balance.
Figure A:
Some of you, though, may be in more of a place of Sloth (Fig. B). It may or may not involve actual pajamas. We do not judge. In which case, (*draws breath*) ON YOUR FEET SOLDIER WHEN I TELL YOU TO, GET TO THAT COMPUTER AND GEEEEEEERRRRTTTTT CCCCCREEEEEAAAAAAAATTTTING COZ NOBODY WILL DO IT FOR YOU, ARE YOU HEARIN' ME SOLDIER?? GOT IT?
Figure B:
(*breathes*)
In more productive support: some resources you may know or not, suggested and tested by fellow comm members:
Absolute Write's Show Your Work forum - get a critique from writers, published and aspiring
It's almost nanowrimo, and art and meta equivalents abound. Need motivation to do an INSANELY HUGE QUANTITY of fanworking in November? You won't be alone with Nano.
Writing Fight Scenes - a reference tool if you struggle with violence on the page
Any more suggestions? I'll gladly update here if so.
Lastly, a self-serving deadline reminder:
It may already be time to mention that the deadline for posting is the first week of December, but you're welcome to post here before then if you're all done with a project you signed up with. I may have to post in a couple of weeks because one of my commitments got accidentally entangled with another ficathon. Please don't make me be first to post to my own comm...