Documentation
So, Tir Ysgithr is having its Boaronial Arts and Sciences tournement tomorrow, and I figured I should enter stuff. I have lots and lots of stuff that I can enter.
Lots. Really. In all kinds of categories.
I picked out 5 things with a couple more I could maybe enter if I got enthusiatic or something.
And I started in on writing the documentation. Ok, shouldn't be too traumatic. I have oodles of books, and pretty good google-fu for finding versions of pictures that I can drop in, and I know how and why I made the things I made, and what they are supposed to be.
Yeah. Right.
Sixteen hours later I have two documentation docs. One for Heraldic Display, 2 pages long, and one for Alchemy, 4 pages, for which I managed to find the first draft of the docs.
Ok, I procrastinated. I admit that.
But really, it should not take that long to write this stuff. And I realized as I was growling at my screen that there is a reason I don't do this beforehand -- If I do all the nitty writing/ note-taking/ figure it all out and write it down, I no longer want/have the energy to make the actual object. Which kinda defeats the purpose for me.
And I loathe what feels like having to justify my choices in what I did. I make stuff. I like to show it off. I will happily explain how and what and all that when asked, but for some reason the the judging forms & all hit me wrong and make me feel like what I am doing is standing before a hostile dissertation committee and not celebrating Making Cool Stuff. (This is not reasonable, and I recognize that. But it is how I feel about it. Feelings are what they are, it only really matters how one acts upon them, not that they are felt.)
So two entries. No entering for Champion. Feeling really crappy about the whole thing.
Have I mentioned that I really hate writing documentation?
ETA -- Morning now, and a little sleep has improved my mood, and made me realiza a couple more things about this .
It isn't that I don't like research, because I do. I actually love hunting stuff down, and finding all the puzzle pieces and immersing myself in the material. It's not the research, the problem is with the research paper.
Also, specifically as regards the docs I wrote yesterday, If I'd known at the outset that I would only get two done, Heraldic Display would not have been one of them, as that was something I chose to 'fill out my numbers' more than because I think the banner is outstandingly cool or anything. I would have done the Tools or Householding and a piece of my ironwork, instead.
And yeah, really, most of this irritation is purely at myself.
Lots. Really. In all kinds of categories.
I picked out 5 things with a couple more I could maybe enter if I got enthusiatic or something.
And I started in on writing the documentation. Ok, shouldn't be too traumatic. I have oodles of books, and pretty good google-fu for finding versions of pictures that I can drop in, and I know how and why I made the things I made, and what they are supposed to be.
Yeah. Right.
Sixteen hours later I have two documentation docs. One for Heraldic Display, 2 pages long, and one for Alchemy, 4 pages, for which I managed to find the first draft of the docs.
Ok, I procrastinated. I admit that.
But really, it should not take that long to write this stuff. And I realized as I was growling at my screen that there is a reason I don't do this beforehand -- If I do all the nitty writing/ note-taking/ figure it all out and write it down, I no longer want/have the energy to make the actual object. Which kinda defeats the purpose for me.
And I loathe what feels like having to justify my choices in what I did. I make stuff. I like to show it off. I will happily explain how and what and all that when asked, but for some reason the the judging forms & all hit me wrong and make me feel like what I am doing is standing before a hostile dissertation committee and not celebrating Making Cool Stuff. (This is not reasonable, and I recognize that. But it is how I feel about it. Feelings are what they are, it only really matters how one acts upon them, not that they are felt.)
So two entries. No entering for Champion. Feeling really crappy about the whole thing.
Have I mentioned that I really hate writing documentation?
ETA -- Morning now, and a little sleep has improved my mood, and made me realiza a couple more things about this .
It isn't that I don't like research, because I do. I actually love hunting stuff down, and finding all the puzzle pieces and immersing myself in the material. It's not the research, the problem is with the research paper.
Also, specifically as regards the docs I wrote yesterday, If I'd known at the outset that I would only get two done, Heraldic Display would not have been one of them, as that was something I chose to 'fill out my numbers' more than because I think the banner is outstandingly cool or anything. I would have done the Tools or Householding and a piece of my ironwork, instead.
And yeah, really, most of this irritation is purely at myself.