Just Create - Oh God How is it December Already Edition

[silvercat17]

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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And we have a discord for those that want to chat more (linked in the pinned post)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I'm working on the next chapter of the one where Victor skips his Nationals medal ceremony, and I'm trying to work on my yoidigizine submission and about five other WsIP, but I have momentum on the one I'm working on. For some values of "momentum", since apparently my brain point blank refuses to allow me to proceed until I have decided whether the next bit is on Twitter or Instagram and added the relevant CSS to the work skin accordingly.

[analogbasilisk]

The only thing I did this week was (finally?) apparently loose my will, passion and interest for writing. I have to find a new hobby, I guess.

[silvercat17]

It happens to us all. Just take it easy and it'll come back eventually. I know you're under a lot of stress and that'll kill passion and creativity

[silvercat17]

I'm working on a rainbowlists inspired advent calendar, because, y'know, there's nothing else I'm supposed to be doing

[cornerofmadness]

Working on final exams for the students, gathering all the books I want to read for the 2024 Popsugar reading challenge and I want to get started on 2 anthology open calls

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with it

[cornerofmadness]

I know that feeling. Good luck with it

[sinopiasaur]

What silvercat said -- rest and take it easy, it'll come back. Take it from an old hand who's been through both minor and major burnout for multiple kinds of creative endeavors.

I recommend just -- if you're up for it -- consuming works instead of creating any for a while, especially during a time of high stress. Once you get in the clear and can relax, the muse usually comes a knockin'.

Your brain don't sit idle in the creative department when you consume media either, even if it's totally opposite to what you usually create. Brains are miracles that way.

- 🐴 Chi

[sinopiasaur]

Go you!!! Fire!

- aj 🦇

[sinopiasaur]

Is it a personal project? It sounds interesting for doing little sketches or miniatures!

[sinopiasaur]

😻

Good luck!

- aj 🦇

[sinopiasaur]

I have creative ambitions but it's been a very difficult time. PTSD is highly active during the holidays for the collective, so being creative is on the back burner, more or less.

So right now when I'm able to, I think about rainbowfic (particularly those colors the collective want to pick up as part of the 400 lists fest), and about the current chapter in progress for Under Summer Stars, which can be summed up as "Hades tells Persephone and the children a bedtime story about that time Kid Ares stumbled into the Underworld." It's a small break from the higher stakes drama, but carries on the pattern of knitting distant, past events into the present.

- Anh 🐃

[sinopiasaur]

aj found a neat book: "The Little Drawing Workshop: 52 Weeks of Drawing Lessons", and plans to go through it week by week.

While aj has been doing art for a few years now, aj always likes to look at a different point of view on art creating. And a skim had some interesting lessons we didn't see in older drawing books we have.

The first week is interesting but hard for the collective to do: setting up a place dedicated to art. We have one small room to work with, it's a little ??? for aj.

However, aj thinks a specific soundscape for arting will help the most anyways. It's not so much about having a specific place as it is finding a way to easily get into a creative mode no matter how you feel (most of the time).

It was also interesting to look at the art spaces of other artists. Nobody is neat XD

- aj 🦇

[galadhir]

Mostly dealing with Christmas presents atm, but also finishing a story in The Untamed fandom, and practicing brush-strokes for signwriting, as I've got a commission to put the name on another narrowboat.

[galadhir]

It does come back eventually, but if you find a new hobby in the meantime then you will have two things to enjoy :)

[dianec42]

Ohhhh that drawing book looks nifty! Good luck setting up the space.

[dragonjournal]

Mostly scrambling to find rent money. Need $500 in two days, so... looks like I have to sell my PS5 because, that's the only thing of *value* that we have and it sucks, because that's the way *I* watch TV, but GOD FORBID anyone else lose anything in this house.

.... Sorry bitter.

[sankseas]

(Hello, new here! Very happy a comm like this exists!!)

I've got a lot of projects to get done this month, but today I'm focusing on finishing the final-pass edit of my comic script.

Hoping to print it out tomorrow, so I can move on to other parts of the process... and to post the first page before the end of this year!

[sankseas]

Oh no, I'm so sorry you're going through that... It's perfectly understandable to feel bitter about it. Hope things work out, though it's a tough situation :(

[sankseas]

Ah, my sincere sympathy in this difficult time. Those projects you're thinking on sound interesting - good luck and best of wishes!

[silvercat17]

No it's going to be a challenge for the community!

[silvercat17]

The holidays are hard for a lot of people. My mom's weepy from thinking about my estranged sister (who is a butthead).

Take it easy and take care of yourselves.

[silvercat17]

Welcome! We're pretty chill here. Good luck with the comic script!

[silvercat17]

I was going to do something all fancy with doors that open and everything, but decided that I have too much on my to-do list so we're going with some pictures and text.

[sankseas]

Thank you!!! I love the whole concept of this comm.

Got 2 1/2 chapters left to go, now ⸜(*ˊᗜˋ*)⸝