Posting...about posting, mostly
It's still great seeing so much traffic on my DW flist. *^^* So exciting! There are a couple of posts I want to respond to at least a bit (by which I mean "link to them and write a little bit on the subject"), mainly dealing with the topic of commenting and how people think about it, but that clearly hasn't happened yet.
It makes me think of doing one of the several things going around which are increasing post volume, whether it's the "blog every day for thirty days" thing or the "31 days of blogging" (?) meme that several of you are doing or attempting to make daily happiness posts. (Identifiable neurosis: a corner of my brain feels awkward about the idea of posting every day...because... And there the neurosis runs out of explanation and falls into "because I said so!" Anyway, I'm telling it that if I'm getting so much enjoyment out of increased activity here, contributing to said overall activity is good, not bad.)
But it feels almost like cheating to say, at this point, "I'll post every day!" I mean, we just got kittens. Suddenly I can't have a lack of things to write about--not that that's ever the problem. The problem is getting to it rather than falling headlong into Tumblr. ^^;
An unexpected side effect of the kittens being here is that when I posted fic today, it stressed me somewhat but not nearly as much as it usually does. I don't expect that to be a permanent change, but I'll appreciate it while it lasts! I think this may literally be the first time in years that I've posted any kind of fic and not gone immediately into an "I'm never doing this again, because it's too fucking stressful" loop. (Emphasis on it being a brain loop; it's very much just my brain weasels coming out to play. I always have the thought process--other than this time, as long as I'm not jinxing myself by saying so--and it always sucks, and I always get over it.)
Having
wildpear on board is undoubtedly helping too, partly for the knowledge that someone other than me has been over the story and thinks it's solid, and partly because she came over to visit tonight, and between playing with the kittens and showing her the Veronica Mars pilot, it wasn't hard to distract myself.
(See what I did there? ^_- The girl has a username! I don't know if she's going to seriously take up posting on DW or not, but if she adds any of you from seeing you around here, well, that's who she is.)
Showing her VMars is, of course, step two of converting her to the perfect mental casting for Georgia and Shaun. Step one--showing her Warehouse 13 and making her fall in love with Allison Scagliotti--has been accomplished quite handily. ^_^ (I would've introduced her to these series anyway, because obviously I think they're fantastic TV, but wanting to show her Scags and Jason Dohring got them to the top of the ever-growing list.)
And since it's past 1 AM, I'm not going to write a half-asleep post about the kittens right now, but they're settling in, and things seem to be going well. Kas was over earlier with his camera, so I know there are good photos waiting to be uploaded and linked to; I just don't have them yet. (Kas also brought mini lemon tarts in a sugar cookie sort of crust, because he saw the recipe go by on Tumblr and made them happen. My friends? Still awesome.)
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It makes me think of doing one of the several things going around which are increasing post volume, whether it's the "blog every day for thirty days" thing or the "31 days of blogging" (?) meme that several of you are doing or attempting to make daily happiness posts. (Identifiable neurosis: a corner of my brain feels awkward about the idea of posting every day...because... And there the neurosis runs out of explanation and falls into "because I said so!" Anyway, I'm telling it that if I'm getting so much enjoyment out of increased activity here, contributing to said overall activity is good, not bad.)
But it feels almost like cheating to say, at this point, "I'll post every day!" I mean, we just got kittens. Suddenly I can't have a lack of things to write about--not that that's ever the problem. The problem is getting to it rather than falling headlong into Tumblr. ^^;
An unexpected side effect of the kittens being here is that when I posted fic today, it stressed me somewhat but not nearly as much as it usually does. I don't expect that to be a permanent change, but I'll appreciate it while it lasts! I think this may literally be the first time in years that I've posted any kind of fic and not gone immediately into an "I'm never doing this again, because it's too fucking stressful" loop. (Emphasis on it being a brain loop; it's very much just my brain weasels coming out to play. I always have the thought process--other than this time, as long as I'm not jinxing myself by saying so--and it always sucks, and I always get over it.)
Having
wildpear on board is undoubtedly helping too, partly for the knowledge that someone other than me has been over the story and thinks it's solid, and partly because she came over to visit tonight, and between playing with the kittens and showing her the Veronica Mars pilot, it wasn't hard to distract myself.
(See what I did there? ^_- The girl has a username! I don't know if she's going to seriously take up posting on DW or not, but if she adds any of you from seeing you around here, well, that's who she is.)
Showing her VMars is, of course, step two of converting her to the perfect mental casting for Georgia and Shaun. Step one--showing her Warehouse 13 and making her fall in love with Allison Scagliotti--has been accomplished quite handily. ^_^ (I would've introduced her to these series anyway, because obviously I think they're fantastic TV, but wanting to show her Scags and Jason Dohring got them to the top of the ever-growing list.)
And since it's past 1 AM, I'm not going to write a half-asleep post about the kittens right now, but they're settling in, and things seem to be going well. Kas was over earlier with his camera, so I know there are good photos waiting to be uploaded and linked to; I just don't have them yet. (Kas also brought mini lemon tarts in a sugar cookie sort of crust, because he saw the recipe go by on Tumblr and made them happen. My friends? Still awesome.)
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