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[silvercat17]

 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? I've been neglecting Dreamwidth - tell me what I'm missing!

 

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.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

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

I finally finished posting the Holiday Poetry Sale stuff. I finished writing the February Poetry Fishbowl stuff. I am currently working on Creative Jam poems.

>>Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype? I've been neglecting Dreamwidth - tell me what I'm missing!<<

Next up will be marchmetamatterschallenge.

>> What have you been watching or reading? <<

Currently watching Crunchbox, which is episodic geekery. :D Tonight's episode was about how to beat arcade games.

Currently reading Scholarly Pursuits from duckprintspress.

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[witchpoetdreamer]

Not gonna lie that book (Scholarly Pursuits) seems right up my alley! Let me know your thoughts about it!

Congrats on your recent achievements with all the things you finished!

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Some of the stories are really adorable. I've hit one that was outright horror though.

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[witchpoetdreamer]

Good to know! I'll def take a look at it, I might look at my library to see if they have it!

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I got it through Kickstarter, so a library is a long shot, but you could ask. If your library favors the "cozy" subgenres then they're more likely to have it, and over the years that branch of literature has really grown.

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[witchpoetdreamer]

Ah! Yes, good to know XD my library does have a *lot* of self-published novels and I can request some titles so I'll just do that :P

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[ysabetwordsmith]

This is actually a small-press title from duckprintspress. You might look at their other offerings and if you like the catalog, recommend that publisher to your librarian. Though it is also true that Kickstarter funds a lot of individual-author titles, and in general, contains a much higher portion of truly innovative literature than the big houses currently offer.

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[witchpoetdreamer]

Lovely! I just requested it at my library so I should know in a week or so if they're going to purchase it!

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm happy I could tip you to something fun.

It's worth subscribing to duckprintspress if you like their stuff, because they not only mention their Kickstarter projects, they also do rec-reading lists with themes.

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[witchpoetdreamer]

Yes! I already started following them XD

[matsushima]

I got the unofficial student Discord server for my grad program started! Right now, there are only three members (including me) but you gotta start somewhere? Unfortunately, the launch meeting was ~24 hours after Discord announced that it would be rolling out age verification for all members so I think that might've made people less inclined to sign up…

During the launch/info meeting, I added ⅓ a row to my rainbow blanket. It might not sound like much but it's a half circle pattern and each row now is hundreds of stitches. (I'm not even counting, just eyeballing the increases.)

… and I'm now at ~5,000 words of this research paper, making it the second longest piece of academic writing I've ever done (after my MFA critical thesis). 2,000 words to go and I'm tired.

[witchpoetdreamer]

Hey kudos on the paper! It's a lot of hard work! And you'll have to share that rainbow blanket when it's done!

[witchpoetdreamer]

Hii! First time commenting here!

I'm super hyped for National Craft month in March, I've been prepping my scrapbooking and embroidery materials for that specifically!

I've also been getting into horror as a genre a bit more lately too, which is wild cause I'm easily spooked in general. So far, I've been dipping my toes into reading it and I've watched someone play a horror game on Youtube so it made the whole thing less scary with the players constantly making jokes as things happened. I'm not going to get into heavy stuff anytime soon, but it's big for me!

[oneinist]

Hi!
Yay on your first comment!

Scrapbooking and embroidery sounds like a lot of fun! Do you have anything in decided that you want to embroider already?

[witchpoetdreamer]

I have this idea for a witchy tarot table cloth that I want to make, although it's definitely going to take me more than a month to complete it XD

[oneinist]

Ooh, that sounds amazing. What colors and motifs are you considering?

[witchpoetdreamer]

I just finished drafting it yesterday! I don't know yet for the colours, but definitely lots of warm yellows and browns as well as flower specific colours -- I'm including dandelion, cosmos, lilacs and sunflowers in each corners of a square, and inside another square (diamond?) is honey combs and in each comb there is an acorn except the middle one, it's an oak leaf XD. It's very spring/summery. I made a first draft of an autumn/winter one I'd like to make eventually as well, something round this time. I'll share the process on my blog soon for sure!

[oneinist]

This sounds absolutely lovely.

[witchpoetdreamer]

Thank you! I'm so hyped to get it really started!

[oneinist]

I know I missed something this week!!

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?
I've been working on organizing my Obsidian Vault further (moving away from Google suite to local writing software). I'm having trouble focusing for longer amounts of time, but I've found it helps running short times sprints on discord while doing it.
At the same time, spending too much time on Obsidian isn't good either. I feel accomplished and it gives me joy, but it's not something I should at this moment spend whole days on. I really want to tidy my study so I feel motivated to use it again (I'm one of those people that can't stand clutter...), but everytime I go in there I jsut feel super overwhelmed. I wish I could just decide on a day and move all the clutter/empty the storage to the living room so I can reorganize an make sure everthing gets stored away.

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype? I've been neglecting Dreamwidth - tell me what I'm missing!
I am eyeing the meta March event, not that I have written any meta. I want to, but I thought maybe reading what gets posted during the event can help me start writing too, who knows. I wanted to get into editing on Fanlore during February, but I can't seem to figure out where to start.

What do you just want to talk about?
I'm curious about everyone's writing routines (or how it looks like when you write, if you don't see it as a routine). I haven't finished anything in ages, but the WIPs keep increasing in numbers. I would like to be able to finish a short story for my ship.

What have you been watching or reading?
We've been watching 90s Japanese drama shows and are having a blast. The book I'm currently reading is on gesture drawing and I'm following along with the excercies but I haven't in a couple of days so time to pick it back up again before I abandon it.