Just Create - Jack Edition

[silvercat17]

What are you up to? What have you gotten done? What do you need encouragement on? Are there any events or challenges you want to share?

Don't forget to encourage other commentors!

Comments

[thenymphinyellow]

hi, new here! I finally broke the way my creative writing degree programmed me to write a draft and found a way that really works for me. I got part 1 of my book entirely drafted in about a week! There are three parts and I'm not quite sure how long they'll all be relative to each other but I'd been stuck for so long that this feels incredible.

[illariy]

Thank you for the sympathy! It is good to know I am not alone although of course, it would be better if both of us didn't know the problem. ;-)

Thank you for the celebration and the good wishes! After my exam, I am going to have about 1.5 months off from uni and have high hopes for all sorts of stuff. :D

[illariy]

Thank you for the good wishes, much appreciated!

Yes, I am doing my mending by hand, too. So far, it all went quite well. I was taught some simple mending techniques by my mother, though. I am hoping to learn more via internet tutorials and possible some books although I haven't decided on any books to buy yet.

That friend sounds very helpful. I hope one day you can take her up on her offer. It is sure fun to mend things and easy little projects aren't that difficult, as long as you don't expect things to look brand new. :D

[ashelterofpages]

I'm legitimately excited to eventually understand the last part of this comment. Thank you!

[ashelterofpages]

Ooh, all of this is good to know. Thanks for talking about it.

I'm happy to have helped in some small way. I hope you have good times drawing and honoring those stories.

[ashelterofpages]

Yeah, I'm definitely not aiming for fixing things to the point of someone not noticing they'd ever been worn or anything. Just fixing them so that they can still be something I use regularly. If I feel like being fancy, I'll say that I'm going for a more 'distressed' sort of vibe. XD

[silvercat17]

No frames necessary! HTML & CSS has gotten a lot better, but it's still y'know, time consuming.

If you don't want to host it yourself, Squidge.org has a fanwork archive that uses the same code as A03, but isn't attached to it. https://squidgeworld.org/

[soc_puppet]

Go for it, I believe in you!

[soc_puppet]

Awesome! It's so good to be able to find a way to write (or do creative stuff in general, IMO) that works for you.

[soc_puppet]

Thank you ♥ It took me a bit to figure out how to convey "hopeful", so I'm glad it works for you!

[soc_puppet]

Thank you 😊 I am also very pleased with my choice of subject.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with that to do list

[cornerofmadness]

that is fantastic. I hand write a lot myself.

[cornerofmadness]

Congrats

[cornerofmadness]

good luck on it all. Uni often doesn't leave as much time as we'd like

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with it all especially the open call

[illariy]

That sounds like a realistic and very environmentally friendly goal. :D

[illariy]

Thank you for the good wishes. And your second sentence is very wise ;-)

[ashelterofpages]

Thank you!

The open call is for the Apex flash prompt they do every month. Even if I don't meet the deadline, I want to try and do a draft every month for it, just to say I did. Sidenote: ff you'd like the info for that (they open on the 7th of every month and close on the end of each month) I'll toss you a link to the Submission Grinder page.

[cornerofmadness]

Cool, actually yes please. I think I've submitted in the past but not sure. (and if you want pop over on my page every sunday for other open calls I've found)

[cornerofmadness]

I've spent a lot of time in uni getting various degrees and now I'm the prof so I'm well acquainted with academia

Neocities!

[manytoads]

Hi hi! popping in here cause I've been using Neocities for a few years now and sort of taught myself HTML and CSS in the process. I love it when people get into it. sadgrl.online has some great resources, and if you just want to start now and worry about details later, she also has a great layout builder.

I kind of want to shamelessly plug my own little project, too, because I made a sort of minimalist layout with pretty in-depth documentation for those who want to use it and customize it.

Re: Neocities!

[grayestofghosts]

I might have to check out your layout. I was messing around with sadgrl's built layout but the billion colors to alter in CSS was pretty intimidating.

[ashelterofpages]

Here's the MOshka link. It closes on the 31st but opens back up on the 7th with the new prompt for the month.