(no subject)
Link of The Day
Fandom Wank at JournalFen - this dose of Schadenfreude has been occupying my admittedly short attention span lately. Sad, really. But fun.
(semi)Serious Post
So I've been trying to figure out why I'm such a friggen slacker. I get excited about certain projects and then they fade away, almost always unfinished. Of course, my projects tend to be pretty massive, objectively speaking. Write a novel, 'archive' all the VHS to DVD, self-study for the MCSE, that sort of thing. Am I self-sabotaging by making such big projects that it is difficult to see progress, even if I am working on it?
I think the answer to that is yes, with the caveat (explanation or qualification) that I give up on things very easily. Again, though, I think it's mostly that I'm so easily distracted. I get bored or weary with whatever I'm working on, so I take a break. On that break, I see something shiny or at least something that catches my attention, yet requires much less work. Instantly, I'm off on another tangent, the old project fading into the mists of my guilty mind.
I guess that the fact that my current story is still in my mind is a good sign; it's something I believe in. It's really just another incarnation of the same story I've been trying to write since junior high, but I think I've found the angle that will keep it from devolving into the same old story everyone has read before. But who can say? Almost everything has been done before, but it's the different perspectives, angles and focuses (focii?) that keep a familiar pattern from becoming trite and overdone.
Is it arrogant to think that my version will be effective? Nah, just wishful thinking, maybe.
(semi)Insane Post
I'm gonna be a webmistress! SQUEE!
Question of the Day
Is it for all time, this feeling of joy?
How Long this Post Took
No idea, forgot to keep track.
Fandom Wank at JournalFen - this dose of Schadenfreude has been occupying my admittedly short attention span lately. Sad, really. But fun.
(semi)Serious Post
So I've been trying to figure out why I'm such a friggen slacker. I get excited about certain projects and then they fade away, almost always unfinished. Of course, my projects tend to be pretty massive, objectively speaking. Write a novel, 'archive' all the VHS to DVD, self-study for the MCSE, that sort of thing. Am I self-sabotaging by making such big projects that it is difficult to see progress, even if I am working on it?
I think the answer to that is yes, with the caveat (explanation or qualification) that I give up on things very easily. Again, though, I think it's mostly that I'm so easily distracted. I get bored or weary with whatever I'm working on, so I take a break. On that break, I see something shiny or at least something that catches my attention, yet requires much less work. Instantly, I'm off on another tangent, the old project fading into the mists of my guilty mind.
I guess that the fact that my current story is still in my mind is a good sign; it's something I believe in. It's really just another incarnation of the same story I've been trying to write since junior high, but I think I've found the angle that will keep it from devolving into the same old story everyone has read before. But who can say? Almost everything has been done before, but it's the different perspectives, angles and focuses (focii?) that keep a familiar pattern from becoming trite and overdone.
Is it arrogant to think that my version will be effective? Nah, just wishful thinking, maybe.
(semi)Insane Post
I'm gonna be a webmistress! SQUEE!
Question of the Day
Is it for all time, this feeling of joy?
How Long this Post Took
No idea, forgot to keep track.