5 October check-in

[viridian5]

I did a teeny bit more on the new short SNAFU gen fic and a bit on a WK story I've been working on (and often off) for years. Here's a piece of the last one.


( 'Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein?' by Viridian5 )

Oct 5 (and a bit of 6)

[kendiefox]

Oct 5: A bit more hand quilting done. And a grocery run.

Oct 6: Finished the last few inches on a column this morning! D&D this afternoon, so maybe a bit of knitting? Only during breaks, though, so I can pay attention. Possibly more sewing tonight, but I might get some video game time in.

Breaks are important, too. As well as spending time with our people.

Let's make some progress crew! Even if it's progress on chores!

Oct 6

[alexseanchai]

Lessons from Renae of CupcakeTrainings.com:

1) If you don't believe your business will succeed, it won't.

2) You might get a million visitors to your site but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get a single sale. The phrase she keeps using is "dollar store stigma".

3) You need to plan for how to make the business expandable and scalable.

(She's talking about how to make the business run by itself, such that she only needs to log in every Friday to pay her assistants, and that's where the "real freedom" comes from. Observe how this is freedom only for the boss, not for the people who do the actual work. This is capitalist class thinking and contrary to solarpunk principles; I am Displeased. But she has a point about the thing where me working sixteen-hour days is not the ideal scenario here.)

4) Online shoppers search first generally, to find what they want, then specifically, to find where to buy it. You want to be what comes up in the second search. (SEO, yay.) Need unique product titles & IDs.

...

Later today, I'm going to visit an online friend in person for the first time. This involves an hour on the bus each way. I had damn well better get some crochet done!

ETA: I got a couple more rows crocheted on a hat. :)

I misjudged the bus route planning page—it's an hour in transit each way, you see, not an hour on the bus, and 'in transit' counts 'waiting downtown after getting off one bus and before the other bus shows up'. And even after I set a 20m timer on my phone on the second bus so I'd know when I was getting close to my destination, I kept looking at the clock every couple of minutes and looking out the window at the street signs every couple of minutes just to make sure I wouldn't miss my stop. And then on the way back I didn't have any brain left, so I told my phone to play me Kellianna's body of work on shuffle instead.

October 6th - Saiyuki ficlet (still set in the 250ish word count)

[lauand]

Fandom and stuff: Saiyuki - 58, PG
Format: Ficlet
Warnings: None
Notes: More of the same. This time even less original, it's been done a million times before, but if I'm continuing with this universe, it was sort of inevitable. Unbetaed. 


( It was raining. )

 

October 1-6 (oops)

[zhelana]

So far I've done a little bit of outlining for NaNo. I have one 35 note card outline finished and another story I'm still working on outlining. I feel like I'm really far behind. I've always had outlines done by September in the past!

Fic: Grey Space (Saiyuki)

[daegaer]

Fandom: Saiyuki
Format: Fic
Warnings: None
Notes: Robot AU, 1040 words. Sanzo, his ward and his android servants travel west.

( Grey Space )

day 5-6 check-in

[indelicateink]

Soooooooooo the fatigue I've been experiencing lately was perhaps the precursor to illness that came to KICK MY ASS yesterday and today. You know the full-body muscle and joint aches? And where even a breeze on your skin HURTS? Included that. GOOD TIMES. I will spare you the G.I. trauma.

Long story short: art has not been happening.

Not on paper at least--it is still very much on my mind. So hopefully the work going on in my head can be committed to paper as soon as I rally.

So just basically checking in to report I have not flaked, I'm just fighting illness! And hopefully will be back on track to bring news of art progress sooner rather than later.

4-6 October check-in

[the_rck]

I'm succeeding in opening new documents each day, but I'm behind by two days on writing for prompts. Counterbalancing that, I've finished and posted three stories so far this month. I've also pretty definitely decided to abandon one. I'll get to the remaining prompts eventually.

The two stories I completed today are longer than the Babylon 5 story, so I'm just linking to them on AO3. I'm pleased with both of them.

Title: Must Be Built Anew
Fandom: Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Rating: T
Length: 985 words
Characters/Pairings: Sabriel/Touchstone
Tags: Rebuilding, Compromise, Discussion of Pregnancy, Discussion of Surrogacy

Notes: Written as a New Year's Resolution fic for a prompt from the 2017 Yuletide. Also written for day 4 of the letsgetshitdone challenge.

Summary: Sabriel and Touchstone constitute finite resources. They must spend each part of themselves wisely.

Must Be Built Anew on AO3.


Title: Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Fandom: Calvin and Hobbes
Rating: G
Length: 1935
Characters/Pairings: Calvin, Susie
Tags: Child logic, Misunderstandings, Imagination, Selective hearing

Notes: Written for Yuletide's New Year's Resolution challenge 2018. Also written for the October challenge in letsgetshitdone.

Summary: Even when he wants answers, Calvin only hears the interesting parts.

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails on AO3.