Just Create - Terrier Edition

[silvercat17]

I gotta tell ya, switching from a Mac using Qwerty (work) to a Windows using Dvorak (home) is really messing with me

What are you working on? What have you gotten done? Are there any events, challenges, or other cool things you want to share?

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[silvercat17]

Mom and I watched the Weird Al Story and enjoyed it. I'm doing a liveread of a scifi pulp story written in 1934 on a friend's discord. Mostly I've been working. I also ordered and got delivered the other half of the display cases for my room from Ikea (it's the PAX system, but I'll order plexiglas instead of the door panels they have). I don't know if I'll get it assembled this weekend or not.

[silvercat17]

I've scheduled several posts for rainbowfic 's writer's salon, although I forgot to include tags. Now I'm gonna write up a post of how to do it...

Here: https://www.silversspace.com/2023/10/scheduled-posting-on-dreamwidth/ (It'll also cross post to my DW, but no guarantee how it'll look)

[silvercat17]

Posted the latest batch of banners for completing stuff on rainbowfic, which involved making new generic banners for Electric Blue, Light Black, and Kohl.

[seerofrage]

Yay for doing the things! \o/ and good luck assembling the display cases! :D

[soc_puppet]

Thank you, that tutorial is really helpful! I am now one step closer to scheduling posts for places!

[illariy]

Oooh, this tutorial is incredibly useful! I bookmarked it for future use immediately after reading.

No idea if my free email service even includes scheduling emails but I am sure if I wanted to, I could find one that does and switch, hehe.

Thank you so much for writing it up and sharing it here! :D

[dragonjournal]

So. I finished my novel. Well, one of them. But I finished it! It's done. It needs edited, but I'm not touching it to edit it until after the new year, but, I was so pleased to write the epilogue, and consider it done.

Next, is NaNo, and I'm working on another story before that, But my room is also coming along! I rearranged it about a month ago. and it's not fully done yet. But I'm getting here!

[soc_puppet]

Congrats on finishing a novel (woah!) and room stuff! Both of those are quite impressive.

[dragonjournal]

Not only did I find the curtain lights I was looking for, I hung them (all by myself!) and got them going, hung the small lights on my bed... So the room is closer to being done!

Also; completed a ton of laundry today (tomorrow is bedding laundry) and folded almost all of it and put it away. (I think I'm more proud of that, than I am having completed the novel?)

[soc_puppet]

Hot damn, congrats on the laundry! And good luck with your room!

[illariy]

Wooow, you finished a novel? That is so amazing! :D

Congratulations on the ongoing room rearrangement, too. That is a lot of work.

Best wishes for that story before NaNo and continuing with the room. :D

[seerofrage]

Whoa, that's so cool, congrats on completing your novel!! :D

And good luck with your other projects, and with the room! \o/

[seerofrage]

It's been a minute, but I've been working on little Halloween art things for friends the past week, and I'm halfway done with them! \o/ It's been nice to get back into making things. (':

[soc_puppet]

Making little fun things here and there can really lift a person's spirits; good luck with your (spooky?) project!

[seerofrage]

It really has! Many thanks! :D

[illariy]

Yay, halfway done on a Halloween project is very cool, cheers to you! Extra cheers for getting back into creating after an absence, I find that very hard. :D

[seerofrage]

It is difficult, but very rewarding! Many thanks! :D <3

[soc_puppet]

Cute little kitty cat charm pattern has gone through some beta testing, and I may just call it complete later this week, because I want it to go to use already!

I've also created some clean and folded laundry, and a clean shower ✌

[dianec42]

Yay, the world needs more cute kitty cats!

Congrats on the clean shower and the clean AND FOLDED laundry. :D

[illariy]

Awww, kitty pattern! Please keep us updated on the progress. :D

Yay for doing some laundry and shower cleaning! What a productive weekend. :-)

[seerofrage]

Ooh, kitty! So close to being done, that's so cool! :D

And yay for cleaning! \o/

[cornerofmadness]

oh cool

[cornerofmadness]

I still need to finish my spook me story and clean this apartment before I have some major surgery next month

[dianec42]

Yikes, that sounds stressful! I hope the surgery goes well.

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

[illariy]

Oh, two major projects and such a hard deadline! Many kudos for not just giving up on both, I send you some energy to make some progress on both your tasks. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

thanks so much

[seerofrage]

Good luck! Rooting for you. (:

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[dianec42]

I have finally done some measuring and math towards making the memory quilt. I'm having enough bad days that I'm terrified to start cutting anything irreplaceable, but there are other things that I can do. I have decided I'm just going to do squares, in the interest of getting it done.

Did I mention I joined the local quilting guild? And immediately acquired two more projects? Sigh. At least one of them is so tiny it's barely a project (embroidering my name on a cute lil quilted name tag). Perhaps I'll start on the other project (teddy bear quilt) - I have some ideas, it's much lower stakes, and it should give me some confidence to move forward with the memory quilt.

[silvercat17]

Good luck!

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with it

[illariy]

Wow, yes, that is a lot of changes in your setup, sounds like quite the mindfuck, honestly! I hope you can reap the promised productivity benefits of Dvorak eventually.

This weekend, I had the goal to do enough for uni beforehand so I could a) take Saturday off from studying and b) write penpal letters for 4-5 hours and c) potentially do some penpal-related crafting that I have been putting off for months at this point.

So far:
a) is achieved
b) on Saturday, I did 2 hours of writing and finished 2 letters. So half of what I set out to do but maybe, I can get a little more done tonight? We shall see.
c) Nothing so far but I think this was too ambitious, seeing how I started out the weekend excessively exhausted from both work and uni. If I get 15 mins on this done, I will be happy but I am expecting no progress here right now.

[silvercat17]

I've been using Dvorak for ages. It's the muscle memory and Mac's option keys being different that's screwing me up. Fortunately I don't do a lot of typing on the Mac.

[illariy]

Ooooh, I didn't think I would ever meet a Dvorak user in the wild. I have been curious about using that keyboard layout for ages but can't seem to pull the trigger to try it, haha.

When you are on a computer with the option keys set up in the most convenient way for you, do you find the claims of faster typing speed and more comfort to be true for Dvorak vs QWERTY layout? I am so curious!

[silvercat17]

More comfort for sure. Typing speed seems to be about the same, but I'm not typing anywhere the quantity I did at the peak of my qwerty usage

[illariy]

Oh, thank you so much for sharing your experience! Makes sense that typing speed would correlate with amount of typing done. I think mine has suffered a little, too, since I am on the laptop far less and am more often on my phone. I am still wondering whether I should get a bluetooth keyboard to help with typing on my phone, hehe.