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When I was looking up my fanfiction.net page for [personal profile] althea_valara it took me right back to my early days on the internet, and my first forays into 'proper' writing. OK, it was fanfic - but the stories are all my own. It also made me nostalgic for all the people I met back then, people I'd never met in real life - would never have met at all without this wonderful thing called the world wide web - but who I thought of as friends. But just as suddenly as they appeared, they seemed to float off again into the ether and I was so busy with Life that I hardly even noticed. I have three(?) people as friends on fb and [personal profile] lassarina here, and that's the sum total of what was a thriving little fanfiction community.

I know there are still fic-writing communities around but I haven't engaged with them, and I haven't written fic at all since... 2016... Really?! I've written original fiction and stuff for church - and a HUGE chunk of my paid work is writing minutes, which is a craft like no other :D But it seems like I've hung up my ficcing quill for good. This isn't a good thing or a bad thing, just where I am at the moment.

If you do happen to visit my fanfiction.net page, please take a glance at my list of favourite authors, too. There're some great writers in there.

But about the only NY resolution I've made this year is to write SOMETHING every day. 'Writer' is one of the labels I embrace, that I choose for myself, and my soul is always a little uneasy when I'm not making words.

My first day back in work wasn't quite as quiet as I thought it was going to be but at least I was at home. Mostly I was catching up with my brain from the end of 2023 and just plugging myself back into the system. Progress is being made on our project processes and how we translate that into plans. I've set aside the whole of tomorrow afternoon to get my head around it all. One of the results will be to strengthen my role by making me the Gatekeeper, confirming whether or not a project is in the correct state to move to the next phase. I can feel a checklist template coming on! I do love a good template.

I also have an itch to translate the whole thing into video game speak, with project sponsors as quest givers and devs as helpful NPCs. I just know it would all be lost on most of my colleagues :D

Well, here's to tomorrow's adventure!
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A quieter week, workwise, but I did put a lot of energy into redrafting - and first drafting - the service definitions for the team.  They are now with various people for review.  And I also drafted the Big Report for Academic Board, which will need some tweaking next for the other Big Committee.

I also chatted to my former colleague who went to Glasgow.  Amazing how quickly 5 years has gone by - and how much of each other's lives we've missed, even with both of us on facebook!  Although, to be fair, neither of us posts THAT much.  Anyway, after some ups and downs, it seems like the pandemic is doing them a good turn.

I found out another colleague is leaving - not someone I work closely with but someone who will leave a big hole and who would have been involved in a big project that's about to start.  So, some headaches for the managers to decide how that might work.  I suggested, off the top of my head, a secondment for someone on the functional side - which apparently our boss had also mooted.  So, great minds thinking alike there, I think!

I managed to scramble story 57/70, although when it comes to editing time it's going to need a lot of work.  Not the story itself, but the pacing.

Oh, and the object for last Sunday was a balloon, to remind us to make space for prayer.  I actually pray a lot - the family would probably think I need to remember to make more space for them!  But when I dug out my engagement ring I found an old pin of a dove, representing the Holy Spirit of course, which I THINK I bought at the Christian book shop and cafe I had a Saturday job at when I was 14 - 16.  They sacked me for being pregnant but, you know, it was good times while it lasted.  Anyway, prayer-time and Holy Spirit - they go together :D

And our home shop is about to arrive, so I'm going to head off.  Catch you next week, DW!

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