Just Create: Food poisoning edition

[dianec42]

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

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

Comments

[dianec42]

I got a great deal of laundry done. I went to Bennington (Vermont) Quiltfest, and I renewed my membership in the guild while I was there. Maybe I will go more than twice this year. I also bought this year's t-shirt (bright pink), a discounted t-shirt from a few years ago (purple!) and a tote bag because they had cleverly placed the tote bags next to the checkout. Well played, Quiet Valley Quilters; well played.

I am so blocked on All Things Creative it isn't even funny. My job is destroying my will to live. Oddly, I do seem to be unexpectedly engaged in making it better for the young'uns before I bail. One of the other senior engineers on my team is convinced that I've either done engineering management in the past, or that I should. So that's hilarious.

[guildrone]

Oddly, I do seem to be unexpectedly engaged in making it better for the young'uns before I bail.

That’s awful noble; I hope at least those labors bear fruit!

[matsushima]

I am so blocked on All Things Creative it isn't even funny. My job is destroying my will to live.
I'm in a similar boat over here (Tokyo - but I grew up in Vermont!). I hope can find a better job and bail soon.

[marycuntrarian]

I need to do so. much. laundry. My partner and I both do, so you can imagine the mess. lol

I get the job fatigue, I've been there before. I hope you can beat it soon somehow!

[guildrone]

Unfortunately, as juicy as my most recently spiralling struggle against cognitive dissonance would be to inject into a WIP of mine, the massive buzzkill it presents to a big chunk of my indulgences besides means I haven’t had much energy to spare beyond my usual clerk work and classes. (Surprisingly, though, I’ve at least kept up with my daily three sentences for worderlands’ current prompt table.)

I don’t think the contest/zine submission results I’ll be looking forward to throughout this week will help me sort myself out any—but it’ll at least be another thing off my mind…

[dianec42]

Oof, that sounds rough. Hang in there!

[matsushima]

communal_creators kicks off today and I'm already at 46 minutes of creative work, 3x my goal. (I signed up for the lowest timed goal: 15 minutes per day.)

[dianec42]

Go you! That sounds awesome.

[verylongfarewell]

My girlfriend and I finally approved the cover for the book we're working on self-publishing and it is so great. It's a Danish epistolary novella that we wrote over summer and now have in final beta-stages. We hope to be able to publish it before New Year.

In terms of what I'm actively writing on right now, I'm working on an advent calendar for my girlfriend, set in the same universe as our novella and I'm actually quite crazy about the whole idea, so I try getting a little done every day. So far I've written the slots of Dec. 1st and 2nd. I've got Dec. 3rd planned, but need to write it. Tomorrow.

[dianec42]

Wow, that's awesome!

[verylongfarewell]

Thank you. :3

[minoanmiss]

Oh dear the subject line is dire. Are you ok?

[dianec42]

I am fine, but silvercat17 was down & out. Seems they have survived & are doing better.

Sorry for the dreadful subject line. I was feeling (ironically) extremely uncreative when I posted.

[marycuntrarian]

I finished my website featuring a bunch of my art, info on commissions and workshops! It took so much time and I almost wish I had just used Weebly or something but at least I can say I coded my own art website.

I need encouragement to make paintings again. Seeing the art that I have for offer right now, that I think of as my best work, it's from years ago and I really need to create fresh works.

[dianec42]

Great job on the website!

I hope you can find your muse! What new things have you seen in the world? What new feelings do you want to express?

Starting up again is so hard. Remember, it doesn't have to be perfect! Heck, it doesn't even have to be good - start with something, then do a little more something, and before you know it you'll be in all new territory.

[silvercat17]

I'm alive - was sick, still recovering, am very tired.

[dianec42]

You made it! Yay!