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Ok, so new things are going on in my creative world (I like that phrase). Firstly, my new laptop finally has a drawing program - Paint Tool SAI, which I actually first heard about on here from you guys. As always I'll only ever be doodling on the sidelines, but since I enjoy it there's a fair chance of there being some new art from me at various points as well as writings.
Bigger now: I'm thinking of getting a Wordpress account. I'll use it for, well, uploading everything that isn't fanfic on another site - stuff like Perception and that short I posted earlier today. Since you guys can read all that stuff on here already - this is NOT me leaving DA, this is me posting my stuff to other places as well -, that won't make the biggest difference to you, but if anyone I know on here has a Wordpress account of their own I'd like to connect with you on there as well.
So while I'm uploading various one-shots and the nine-or-so chapters of Perception so far onto Wordpress, what am I going to be doing here? Answer: Pokeumans. And nothing else. That's right, I'm coming back to hang out with my old favourite series again. It's been far too long since I've updated Winner Takes All, and I'm just generally looking forward to coming back to these. So don't worry - all my old stories are about to get some loving. Enjoy.
Man-In-Crowd-4 out. Have a nice day.
Bigger now: I'm thinking of getting a Wordpress account. I'll use it for, well, uploading everything that isn't fanfic on another site - stuff like Perception and that short I posted earlier today. Since you guys can read all that stuff on here already - this is NOT me leaving DA, this is me posting my stuff to other places as well -, that won't make the biggest difference to you, but if anyone I know on here has a Wordpress account of their own I'd like to connect with you on there as well.
So while I'm uploading various one-shots and the nine-or-so chapters of Perception so far onto Wordpress, what am I going to be doing here? Answer: Pokeumans. And nothing else. That's right, I'm coming back to hang out with my old favourite series again. It's been far too long since I've updated Winner Takes All, and I'm just generally looking forward to coming back to these. So don't worry - all my old stories are about to get some loving. Enjoy.
Man-In-Crowd-4 out. Have a nice day.
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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Yay! I can't wait!