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I'm going for some serious self-discipline this time. I'm giving up the Internet.
Well, ok, not exactly. I'm keeping things like e-mail, because you never know when someone will say 'Just e-mail that to me before we next meet, ok?' and all those boring functional things like online practice exam papers. Blah blah, that's not relevant to you guys anyway. In terms of dA, though, I'm giving everything up except for access to journals, feedback and notes, and even that's only in case anyone here needs counselling in a hurry (don't scoff - it happens). For similar reasons I'm keeping access to the Pokeumans Skype group - not to socialise, but in case I'm needed badly by someone. So that means that yes, I am technically contactable between now and Easter (5th April, fyi), but try and save it for something urgent or for returning part of FTTS (if the people involved with that could get back to me with those parts as soon as possible then that would be lovely, thank you). Feel free to leave comments and all that, including on Things Not To Do, but bear in mind that I might not answer them for a month.
All that said, if I am needed then don't hesitate to grab me. I will be checking in case of just such an eventuality, and I'm not going to leave you in the lurch just for my obligations.
On the plus side, by that point I will definitely have finished the final chapter of Nuzlocke: The Gold Standard, and will quite possibly have finished the next chapter of Winner Takes All (don't panic, Back And Forth will have its turn). Not to mention that I'll have plenty of time to get on with the all-important proof-reading of FTTS, so that should speed up over the next month as well. Without you lot distracting me I might have time to write for a change.
Sally forth without me, ladies and gentlemen. If I'm not needed in an emergency then I'll see you all early April. And remember that, even in Lent, Rick Astley is never going to give us up.
See you then.
Well, ok, not exactly. I'm keeping things like e-mail, because you never know when someone will say 'Just e-mail that to me before we next meet, ok?' and all those boring functional things like online practice exam papers. Blah blah, that's not relevant to you guys anyway. In terms of dA, though, I'm giving everything up except for access to journals, feedback and notes, and even that's only in case anyone here needs counselling in a hurry (don't scoff - it happens). For similar reasons I'm keeping access to the Pokeumans Skype group - not to socialise, but in case I'm needed badly by someone. So that means that yes, I am technically contactable between now and Easter (5th April, fyi), but try and save it for something urgent or for returning part of FTTS (if the people involved with that could get back to me with those parts as soon as possible then that would be lovely, thank you). Feel free to leave comments and all that, including on Things Not To Do, but bear in mind that I might not answer them for a month.
All that said, if I am needed then don't hesitate to grab me. I will be checking in case of just such an eventuality, and I'm not going to leave you in the lurch just for my obligations.
On the plus side, by that point I will definitely have finished the final chapter of Nuzlocke: The Gold Standard, and will quite possibly have finished the next chapter of Winner Takes All (don't panic, Back And Forth will have its turn). Not to mention that I'll have plenty of time to get on with the all-important proof-reading of FTTS, so that should speed up over the next month as well. Without you lot distracting me I might have time to write for a change.
Sally forth without me, ladies and gentlemen. If I'm not needed in an emergency then I'll see you all early April. And remember that, even in Lent, Rick Astley is never going to give us up.
See you then.
Retrospectivity!
Alright. Time for a change of scenery. I updated my journal twice in 2017, good grief.
Truth is, I never left dA at all. It just probably looked like it. I know people aren't that fussed, but I would like the record of why I didn't write very much last year-and-a-bit to be visible for anyone who wishes. Partly, it's cathartic for me. It turns out there was more to it than 'dA doesn't interest me anymore', and I want that to be shown:
Autumn 2016 - February-ish 2017: I decided old chapters from Perception needed re-writing, and so I needed to work out what they should be changed to. This was surprisingly difficult. I then had a go at actu
Woop Woop, Fiction
I'm feeling a lot better about my writing at the moment, and indeed in general, and a massive thank you to everyone who waited patiently for me. This journal is primarily to say that I am officially cancelling my original fiction series, Perception. I um-ed and ah-ed over this, but I realised that I just don't like it as a series. Having spent roughly November to February rewriting large chunks of the plot (if you're wondering why I didn't submit anything within that time period, that's why), there were still things I really wasn't happy about with it as a series. This wasn't even small details, this was things in the nature of the setting an
Why I'm Taking A Break From Writing
It's simple, really. It was much too stressful.
I'm keeping this simple. I had taken, for some time now, a very unhelpful approach to my writing. I wasn't really enjoying it that much. I felt obliged to meet non-existent deadlines to maintain the interest of people I had projected my own impatience onto. I felt the need to be involved with every admin discussion in Pokeumans, to be reading as many things as possible, to re-create what I still feel were my glory days of having read the entire Pokeumans gallery and every new member having known my face. And I can't do that. It's changed. I'm at uni now, that makes me busy. But even just writin
Where I've Been Lately
I think this is what I write the majority of my journals about lately, but I like to keep people posted.
In a sentence, uni work has been trying to very, very hard to rob me of all my free time ever, mostly attributable to two solid weeks of assignments knocking my revision note schedule out the window.
In two sentences, my planned re-work of some of the plot elements for Perception is also taking a lot longer than I thought it would (see above), but I still want to do that before I write anything Pokeumans-y because I'm not good at parallel processing this stuff.
Yup. The good news, though, is that I'm in more of a lull period of assignme
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Oh... I await, then.