Just Create - Wintry Mix edition

[dianec42]

Holy cow, another weekend has come and nearly gone!

What have you been working on? What are you struggling with or need support on?

Don't forget to be supportive of the other commenters!

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[dianec42]

I did not get the teddy bear quilt done for the monthly guild meeting. In fact, when I realized that in addition to the Teddy Bears Parade, there would also be an ornament exchange and a pot luck, I noped out on the whole thing.

I feel like I've had enough human contact recently that I don't want to leave the house again until at least January. Sadly we keep finding things to go shopping for.

I am greatly looking forward to some time off later this month. I expect there will be much quilting practice in my near-ish future.

[sankseas]

Sometimes noping out of stuff is the thing to do - good on you for taking the break you need, honestly!

Good luck with future quilting :D

[the_broken_tower]

Good job on knowing your limits.

Humans can be sticky. Best abided in measured doses.

- Ardyn Anselm (he/him)

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with the quilting

[sankseas]

I got that final edit of my comic script done, and finished a painting for someones Christmas present!

But, haven't made progress with other personal projects :/ ended up overthinking everything & got way too frustrated. Took a break for the weekend to hopefully come back fresh haha...

[dianec42]

Good luck! I hope the break will do you good. Stupid brains, always thinking all the time!

[sankseas]

Thanks!! Lol, yeah, some time away usually gives me better perspective :')

[cornerofmadness]

yay for getting the script and painting done

hope the overthinking ends (I know how that goes)

[dragonjournal]

So, I printed out my one story, and I am editing it. Then on top of that, I submitted a couple of stories.

I'm still in a lot of pain from my shoulder. But I'm trying to get some things done. I'm going to go to bed early tonight and see if that helps.

[mekare]

Oh cool! Where did you submit them?

[dianec42]

So much story time! That's fantastic.

I hope your shoulder feels better. Try not to over do it. <3

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with the submitted stories

hope the pain eases

[the_broken_tower]

Cramming in neglected projects and finally (finally) getting a chance to properly sit down and read.

Tonight was sewing buttons onto a jacket. The loops for them are next. Then the pocket will be considered - the lining is due a replacement and might be expanded, but that means cutting into the jacket.

- Ardyn Anselm (he/him)

[mekare]

Getting those projects done feels so good. (I have my own pile sitting on a chair since the beginning of November)

[dianec42]

Good luck with the jacket! And how wonderful to get a chance to sit down and read.

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with it all

[cornerofmadness]

I need to get my gifts in the mail, my apt packed up for the holiday break and get my butt back to Pittsburgh

[dianec42]

That's a lot! Just make sure you don't get mixed up and put your butt in the mail, your apt in Pittsburgh, or your gifts packed up. :)

[cornerofmadness]

hahaha, I make no promises

[silvercat17]

Thanks for stepping in! It's been a rough weekend for me. But I made soup!

[mekare]

Yay for soup!

[dianec42]

Soup makes everything better! I hope things improve for you soon.

[cornerofmadness]

soup is always good

[mekare]

I had a busy week and was convinced my muse needed a rest. Then an exchange in one of my small fandoms revealed its works, I checked one out and got immediately inspired. I sat down to get down a watercolour concept even though I really should have gone to bed. So, yay!

[dianec42]

Haha, silly muse sneaking up on you like that! I hope you got to sleep in. :)

[mekare]

Oh I did!The days of going to bed after 11pm are over for sure.

[cornerofmadness]

muses love the I should be sleeping time slot. Good luck with it

[mekare]

They do, unfortunately. Thanks! I hope to continue working on it possibly on the weekend.

[sunfright]

This week (last week, my time), I finished a novel I've been working on since NaNo and I'm busy going into the editing process now, first and second read-throughs, as well as beginning to look for betas. I have 3 so far, but would like a pool of at least 5. If anyone here felt up for it, I'd love that, but it's a 71k word long story so it's a lot.

It's been such an amazing writing process, never have I had such a streamlined, smooth writing experience. The writer's drop has only set in now and I'm beginning to drag a little, mostly due to tiredness and holiday stress.

I'm doing an "editing week" now where I take two chapters a day and edit them in depth, which means I'll be done by the weekend (the novel is 13 chapters long). I'm really satisfied with what I've done so far. It's a historical novel, taking place in 1920s France with LGBT+ elements.

So far, the summary goes like this: She wanted to be on her way; Paris seemed as good a direction as any. When her distant older brother, Charles, involves her in his plans of ensnaring his wealthy business associate's heir, Armand Dubois, and when Charles' girlfriend, the enticing Italian actress, Eloisa Paolo, also enters the picture, Sylvie Gallard has to slowly realize that wanting to be on your way somewhere can land you in many different places.

I look forward to working with this novel for the next couple of months.

[dianec42]

Great job on finishing! That sounds like a fantastic experience.

[sunfright]

Thank you!! It really has been.

[cornerofmadness]

Yay for the novel it sounds amazing

[sunfright]

Thank you!! It's been a blast to write and editing it only makes me more and more satisfied with the result. I've never felt this way about something I'd written before.

[cornerofmadness]

That's wonderful

[mekare]

Wow congratulations on finishing Nano! And it‘s great to hear you had such a smooth writing experience.

[sunfright]

It was a race, for sure, but I think the end result and this feeling were worth it, definitely. Thank you!

[illariy]

The weekend was spent doing lots for uni, for my career and relaxing. I did write one letter, yay!

Plan for this week is to reply to the letter which arrived today, resend another letter which was returned to me today and finally make more progress on that looong reply I have been working on since, ahem, September. >.>

I am committing to the plan that if I do not write at least an hour on the long reply this week, I am going to ask that penpal if she is fine with me typing the rest of her letter, on the theory that that would be faster.

[sinopiasaur]

Yay for the finished letter and yay for letters in general! Good luck on the long reply -- hopefully the letter muse finds you!

[illariy]

Thank you for the good wishes! I reposted that letter that was returned to me, found out that the other letter is just a Christmas card and she is going to send her letter later on so nothing to reply there yet. But I did not get any writing done on the long letter and ended up asking my penpal if she would be okay with me typing the rest. She said yes! So I hope to make some progress with it next week.

[sinopiasaur]

I managed to do writing in spite of the collective's holiday PTSD flaring.

- First scene of a longer original fiction piece, my very first original fiction.

- More on the story within a story for my current long Lore Olympus fanfic. I didn't intend the story to get a bit sad in the middle, but fortunately Kid Ares is extremely resilient in spite of his current travails.

- Medicare Part D enrollment changes, which are less exciting and more stressful.

Currently we're dealing with a lot of unhappiness and PTSD. I know we'll feel better once the laundry we need to do is started.

I hope to get more writing on the fanfic done so I can get the chapter out and assauge my guilt on that front.

[sinopiasaur]

Yeah the PTSD flaring doesn't help with spoons. We were at least responsible about not overdoing it, let's see if we can keep doing that.

Got in a preliminary blocking in of two pieces actually -- one partial, one more complete! Hopefully can get more done so we can hit the 400 Listfest January deadline.

Anh got in one piece for Cyan, aj working on one piece for Warm Heart, and one of us will need to figure out something for Queer Magic!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm trying to finish up poems from the last Poetry Fishbowl before the half-price sale in mid-December. A bunch of stuff got sponsored yesterday, so I wound up spending most of the day posting those.

Re: Thoughts

[spacedogfromspace]

Ooh poetry! Good luck finishing those poems up. Also, getting to post a bunch of stuff must be satisfying!

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Ooh poetry! <<

If you haven't seen it yet, I do the Poetry Fishbowl on the first Tuesday of every month. Everyone's welcome to come give me prompts, enjoy the crosstalk, and watch for the freebie to go up. January will be "Short Forms."

>>Good luck finishing those poems up. Also, getting to post a bunch of stuff must be satisfying!<<

Thanks! Yeah, it's fun to post stuff. I put up another tonight about a library. Gotta love my supervillains, they have a huge banned books section and the library charter forbids censorship.

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[sinopiasaur]

May the muse bless your pen with ideas and speedy flight before the sale deadline!

[spacedogfromspace]

I started stitching my blanket squares together last week (it is pain) and this week I really gotta get going on something I'm writing for a zine because it is due at the end of the month and I have barely started it, but I'm not feeling very motivated to work on it.

[sinopiasaur]

Hooray for reaching the blanket square stitching phase! Alas we can't just make the stitches happen....

Cheering you on for getting started on writing the thing for the zine!

[spacedogfromspace]

Thanks!