18 March check-in

[larryhammer]

Not much chance for Project 3 research, being mostly offline — some, but I have a few more searches to run. Did in odd moments scan through two more collections of material for Project 4, and started a scratch file for editing and formatting texts.

Er, I've been a little coy about Project 4, in part because I was initially just exploring the idea — testing the feasibility, if you will. The project is editing an anthology of story poems about the sea. The high-level tasks are to find material, which involves lots of reading; selecting what to include, and in what order; copying/collating/formatting texts, including regularizing spellings; decant everything into my existing poetry ebook template, and proofread the whole thing a couple times through; find a title; make a cover; invent a description; test the ebook on all the readers; and release. Plus fiddly bits in between, of course. The scratch file mentioned above is part of the third item on the list, for poems I already know oh heck YEAH I'm including that.

So, goals for today: Finish similar book research and, if possible, update the cover letter. Stretch goal after that is to review/proofread the proposal as a whole.

---L.

Fic: Peace Offering (WK)

[daegaer]

Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Format: Ficlet
Warnings: none
Notes: Space Opera AU. 600 words.


( Peace Offering )

March 18th - After the time warp

[lauand]

Hmmm... I seem to have fallen off the grid. I could blame a wormhole in the space-time continuum, but the sad truth is that, when I reach the point when I absolutely prioritize one task, I refuse to do any other thing, but at the same time I refuse to do the aforementioned task when I'm panicking about it, SO I DO NOTHING. Except evading responsibilities and possibly reality. But, BUT, I think I'm starting to get my ass back in gear?

So, summing up: I managed to actually keep on studying Icelandic (5 min of vocabulary plus another chapter of the grammar book and some exercises that I didn't actually print because, well, what a waste, so I did them in my head, which I'm not sure it will help me to remember them as much, but well, that's how it is).

Aaaand, today I started the fucking storyboard. Ehm, I'm a pretty foul-mouthed person, sorry about that. Okay, I only did three frames, but that's because (as I knew I would) I'm agonizing about the style and the backgrounds (OMG, I HATE BACKGROUNDS. ARCHITECTURE. DESIGN. INTERIORISM. STRAIGHT LINES. WHY) which leads me to researching and choosing references and stuff. My firm intention is to sketch some possible cityscapes when I post this. My panic springs from the fact that I think I'm not good enough, so I'm also erasing and redoing everything one hundred times. Not an efficient workflow, I'd say.

But yeah, I'm getting back on track. Will keep you updated.

March 17-18 Check-In

[lassarina]

I keep accidentally skipping entire days, although in my defense this time it was due to a lingering "is it a migraine or just a wretched headache that refuses to respond to painkillers?" experience, which is still not gone, le sigh.

* Finish an embroidery project
Haven't worked on this since last weekend.

* Finish 3 genprompt_bingo fics for a line (1/3)
No progress on these.

* Finish character dossiers for my novel
I came up with two potential motivations for an antagonist. I have a date with a friend tomorrow night to figure out which one works better in the story. Meanwhile, continuing to nudge character relationships and goals into a shape. Today I spent a meeting writing out a long list of things I want to wrangle into place for this novel--and I'm starting to feel the itch to get back to drafting, which may be more productive than the dossiers, which are really for second-draft tweaking anyway.

* Write on 26 days: 16/26
Blog post today! And brainstorming notes.

* Read 4 outstanding library books before the due date (4/4)
I'm now working on a piece of nonfiction that I've been supposedly reading for the last year. Kindle tells me there are 3.5 hours left after I made about an hour's worth of progress today. The trouble is that literally everyone in England, 100-1350, had one of sixteen names for men or twelve names for women. Which Roger/Richard/William is this? Is that Eleanor his mother, his wife, his sister, or his daughter?* I've lost all track, tbh. But it's stil a good book with a well-constructed narrative, and doesn't seem after making any particular historical argument, so it serves my purpose.

* No, really, 70% of people in England had one of thirty names in that time period.

* 10-day meditation streak
....still off this wagon. But I have tomorrow off, so I'll try to set aside some time for this.