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Jan. 8th, 2024 09:11 pmWhen I was looking up my fanfiction.net page for
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
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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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!