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Ok, ok, I made it. I'm now a university student. Huzzahs all round. There's just one tiny problem - I have no idea how much free time I have.
In theory there's a lot of space in my timetable but any time between 9 and 5 is working time, end of. There's a lot of external reading to consider, I need to spend time with my flatmates but I also want to at least try to get involved with the university societies. In short, I am really busy.
So the upshot of this is: Yes, I am still on dA. Yes, I still want to read/see everyone's work. But I have no idea when or how much I'll be able to. Especially if you're in Pokeumans, just because I haven't commented or even read the latest chapter doesn't mean I don't care. It just means that I don't have time to read it yet. I also don't know how much time I have for writing, because when we do stuff as a flat it always ends really late. I want to, I really do. I have the latest updates for a lot of stuff on the brink of being ready. But even finding time to finish polishing them is going to be hard.
In short, I may not be able to comment, post or reply to much for quite a while until I work out how my new form of life works and how to use the time I have. Please, please bear with me. I am not leaving, but I may find it difficult to continue at the moment. As soon as I get a chance, I'll be back. But goodness knows when that is.
I just figured you should all know what was going on.
In theory there's a lot of space in my timetable but any time between 9 and 5 is working time, end of. There's a lot of external reading to consider, I need to spend time with my flatmates but I also want to at least try to get involved with the university societies. In short, I am really busy.
So the upshot of this is: Yes, I am still on dA. Yes, I still want to read/see everyone's work. But I have no idea when or how much I'll be able to. Especially if you're in Pokeumans, just because I haven't commented or even read the latest chapter doesn't mean I don't care. It just means that I don't have time to read it yet. I also don't know how much time I have for writing, because when we do stuff as a flat it always ends really late. I want to, I really do. I have the latest updates for a lot of stuff on the brink of being ready. But even finding time to finish polishing them is going to be hard.
In short, I may not be able to comment, post or reply to much for quite a while until I work out how my new form of life works and how to use the time I have. Please, please bear with me. I am not leaving, but I may find it difficult to continue at the moment. As soon as I get a chance, I'll be back. But goodness knows when that is.
I just figured you should all know what was going on.
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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HOW DARE YOU HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE THE INTERNET! This is unacceptable! *shames you*
(God luck though~)
(God luck though~)