Vague musing of things
Dec. 27th, 2020 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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getyourwordsout this year! \o/
Admittedly a lot of my writing this year came from playing in Milliways but I am still pleased. 247 days writing isn't anything to be shy of. Next year I am going to repeat the 240 days of writing goal but add some personal qualifiers, mainly that I will only count journaling, original works, and maybe OOM/Fan fics. I'm not going to count Milliways as while it is writing, I feel like it is too easy for me to tell myself I don't need to work on personal works as I already did the days writing. As a stretch goal I'm also going to aim for 100 words as a minimum target for a day's writing. Or maybe I'll call it 15 mins of writing and not care so much about the word count. Or both. The word count is nice to see at the end of the year, but what I feel I need to work on is allowing myself the time to just write and not rush to a word count. Basically allowing myself the time to do something completely for myself and completely creative without some other purpose assigned to it.
I will need to work around the firewall work has put in place for work at home. I know it's all just to keep their intellectual property and internal details safe, but I am kind of grumping that they are tightening restrictions on sites I visit while I am working at home using my internet. There are easy work arounds though, like doing the day's writing on the notepad app and then saving it to a thumdrive to transfer to my laptop and thus to Milanote. Milanote does have a web version I could access but since work has been giving me warnings when I access my G-drive, I figure I will likely get the same warning if I access Milanote.
Enough of that.
I've been reading the Magic the Gathering novel War of the Spark: Ravenica and struggling with it. But then I realized what was bugging me (it's less a novel and more a radio/audio drama) and now I am able to just enjoy it. I don't know why I need to define what a work is before my critical self can get out of the way and let me enjoy the piece. I've done this before and just need to figure it out. Or accept this is part of how I am learning to write, the critical examining of a piece, and let it do its things.
One last thing on the writing, I need to consider waking up early so I can have a cup of coffee, let the dogs out to do their business, and then do some writing before the house is up and needs me to do things. Fitting the writing in during work and house needs is stress inducing and makes me grumpy, which isn't good for the house, the work, the writing, or me.
getyourwordsout this year! \o/Admittedly a lot of my writing this year came from playing in Milliways but I am still pleased. 247 days writing isn't anything to be shy of. Next year I am going to repeat the 240 days of writing goal but add some personal qualifiers, mainly that I will only count journaling, original works, and maybe OOM/Fan fics. I'm not going to count Milliways as while it is writing, I feel like it is too easy for me to tell myself I don't need to work on personal works as I already did the days writing. As a stretch goal I'm also going to aim for 100 words as a minimum target for a day's writing. Or maybe I'll call it 15 mins of writing and not care so much about the word count. Or both. The word count is nice to see at the end of the year, but what I feel I need to work on is allowing myself the time to just write and not rush to a word count. Basically allowing myself the time to do something completely for myself and completely creative without some other purpose assigned to it.
I will need to work around the firewall work has put in place for work at home. I know it's all just to keep their intellectual property and internal details safe, but I am kind of grumping that they are tightening restrictions on sites I visit while I am working at home using my internet. There are easy work arounds though, like doing the day's writing on the notepad app and then saving it to a thumdrive to transfer to my laptop and thus to Milanote. Milanote does have a web version I could access but since work has been giving me warnings when I access my G-drive, I figure I will likely get the same warning if I access Milanote.
Enough of that.
I've been reading the Magic the Gathering novel War of the Spark: Ravenica and struggling with it. But then I realized what was bugging me (it's less a novel and more a radio/audio drama) and now I am able to just enjoy it. I don't know why I need to define what a work is before my critical self can get out of the way and let me enjoy the piece. I've done this before and just need to figure it out. Or accept this is part of how I am learning to write, the critical examining of a piece, and let it do its things.
One last thing on the writing, I need to consider waking up early so I can have a cup of coffee, let the dogs out to do their business, and then do some writing before the house is up and needs me to do things. Fitting the writing in during work and house needs is stress inducing and makes me grumpy, which isn't good for the house, the work, the writing, or me.
