Just Create - Opal Edition

[silvercat17]

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What are you working on? What have you gotten done? Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and stuff, linked in the sticky

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[alexseanchai]

fandomgiftbasket is looking for a bunch of fills in the next couple weeks; needy baskets spreadsheet is sorted both by who has how many gifts and by which fandoms are requested

I think I figured out how to accomplish the next scene in the bodyswap fic, now I just need to make the words go

[cornerofmadness]

I went through to try and find a few that I could possibly do at the basket.

[silvercat17]

The Story Sparks Bingo Fest is starting September 1st - https://allbingo.dreamwidth.org/255673.html

[cornerofmadness]

looking forward to trying this one

[sunfright]

I'm considering signing up for smallfandombang when author sign-ups open Sep 1st. I always love to see smaller and obscure fandoms get some much deserved love, so if anyone is sitting around with a small fandom they want to give some writer's love to, now is your time! Info here!

[cornerofmadness]

good luck if you do.

[sunfright]

Thank you so much!

[cassettesnake]

Bought the right snaps I need to continue work on my project and also worked on the outline for a new interactive fiction.

[soc_puppet]

Yay for having the right materials!

Urgh, I love outlining so much. It's just so much fun to get the story structure in place, and know all it needs now is to pack the right words in around it. So satisfying!

[soc_puppet]

I have created a cozy little nook for myself in an area of the basement that was formerly storage space.

I also posted the next-to-last theme for summerofthe69: Back End 69 (NSFW)

Oh, and I crocheted a cute little dinosaur; I'll have to see about sharing pictures later, as it is almost sleepy-time right now.

[cornerofmadness]

Cool. I'd love to see the dinosaur if you get time

[soc_puppet]

Dinosaur!



Click for a larger picture. I'm tempted to make the pattern available for sale, but hardly anyone besides me likes patterns in Double Crochet (US)/Treble Crochet (UK), so I don't know if anyone would want it.

[cornerofmadness]

that is so stinking cute. Can't advise there I'm afraid but I love it

[soc_puppet]

Thanks! Cute is kind of my specialty 😉

[cornerofmadness]

That's cool. I wish I could crochet (I have nerve damage in my hand so my attempts to learn didn't go well)

[soc_puppet]

That sucks :/ I know it's been very rewarding for me. But you've actually managed to finish a whole novel and are in the process of getting it published, which I think is super cool! Longest thing I've ever finished is just over 8k words. So you've still got some major creative chops.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks so much. I used to do a lot of thread/bead related stuff to keep the hands nimble. I miss them. That said I never could crochet so I've not lost much there. (If I had known back then you could do cute animals I would have tried harder)

ANd hey, at least you're finishing stories

[fenicedautun]

I will second the cutecute!

[cornerofmadness]

I'm still trying to get the final edits done on the novel and back to the publisher. It's rough when you manage to overuse words/actions (sometimes to the tune of a few hundred uses) and you need to get A LOT of them out

[soc_puppet]

Oof, that sounds like a headache. You've got this, though! I believe in you!

[cornerofmadness]

It is a headache but I'm almost there. thanks

[scifirenegade]

Drew a jokey group shot, created two characters (and gave one an experimental watercolour drawing thing that didn't work out, but oh well). Will draw a character from a show I like for the giggled next.

Wrote and almost finished a short piece of original fiction for Gen Prompt Bingo and Rainbowfic.

Still writing a piece for an acquaintance, that's also for Gen Prompt Bingo. When I finish that first one, it will probably write itself. Probably.

[soc_puppet]

Sounds like you've got enough to keep you busy; I hope it all works out!