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November 2024
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Here we are after another month, and since it's officially after Halloween, you all know what that means! The seals keeping Mariah Carey at bay are now weak and she will descend upon us once again. Joking, but anyway, it's been a mostly decent month for me on the real life side of things. Family holiday plans ended up being kinda canceled unfortunately, but we still got to do a few nice things with those of us who were here. Work's been kind of up and down for me, but at least life hasn't been very stressful for me aside from the current election... Which I'm going to choose to not to get into right now.
I ended up being partially right and partially wrong in my last journal entry. For how my writing went this past month, I was right about only getting one story uploaded, "Star Struck"; I was also right that my week off was not any better for my free time for writing, and if anything was possibly worse for it. At the time of this writing, "Star Struck" has about average in number of favorites and comments for my stories, and I think a bit above average in number of views. I feel decent about it, though at this particular moment I find myself especially not having much weight of importance on that. Of course I've always cared more about just getting to tell these stories than I do about how well the stories are received. It's just that right now I'm feeling especially... I don't want to say, 'apathetic' about it, though I'm struggling to think of a word that describes my current emotion with more nuance. It probably has to do with my priorities in life shifting, and my story writing here on FA taking more of a backseat for my other interests. I've been spending most of my free time this last month watching YouTube, playing video games, and even spent some time making a simple tabletop wargame ruleset to play with a couple of my friends play-by-post style since one of them has limited ability to chat online... Though we've yet to actually get said game started, alas.
Anyway, for how I expect this coming month to go, that gets into what I was wrong about in my last journal entry. In that one I mentioned how the next story up is part two of "The Challenge", which is still the case, but it is actually turning out to not be as long as I initially thought it was going to be. It may even end up being shorter than part one. This is mainly because while I was in the outline stage of it, I ended up deciding to cut out a couple of scenes I was originally thinking of doing. My thought was that they might not be all that interesting for the reader, and it might make for a better reading experience if they were just left out and have the important bits just quickly explained. It makes me think philosophically about the balance of fully showing scenes in detail versus just telling the reader what bits of information they need to know. I'm going to hold that thought for the upload of the story itself and/or the outline, as this journal entry is already rambling on a bit much.
So to wrap it up quickly, I'm confident about getting the second part of "The Challenge" done and uploaded this month, but it's hard for me to say if I'll get another one uploaded after that, as it will be a requested story, and I haven't had any discussion yet with the requester about what it will be, so I don't know what to expect. I kinda have a feeling though that even if it isn't a very long story, I might still not be able to finish it before the end of this month anyway. Just given the overall slower pace that my story writing has taken as of late.
Alright, that's enough from me for this month I think. If you've read through this ramble of random things on my mind, then thank you, and I hope you have a great November. Even if you didn't read through it, I hope you have a great November anyway. =)
I ended up being partially right and partially wrong in my last journal entry. For how my writing went this past month, I was right about only getting one story uploaded, "Star Struck"; I was also right that my week off was not any better for my free time for writing, and if anything was possibly worse for it. At the time of this writing, "Star Struck" has about average in number of favorites and comments for my stories, and I think a bit above average in number of views. I feel decent about it, though at this particular moment I find myself especially not having much weight of importance on that. Of course I've always cared more about just getting to tell these stories than I do about how well the stories are received. It's just that right now I'm feeling especially... I don't want to say, 'apathetic' about it, though I'm struggling to think of a word that describes my current emotion with more nuance. It probably has to do with my priorities in life shifting, and my story writing here on FA taking more of a backseat for my other interests. I've been spending most of my free time this last month watching YouTube, playing video games, and even spent some time making a simple tabletop wargame ruleset to play with a couple of my friends play-by-post style since one of them has limited ability to chat online... Though we've yet to actually get said game started, alas.
Anyway, for how I expect this coming month to go, that gets into what I was wrong about in my last journal entry. In that one I mentioned how the next story up is part two of "The Challenge", which is still the case, but it is actually turning out to not be as long as I initially thought it was going to be. It may even end up being shorter than part one. This is mainly because while I was in the outline stage of it, I ended up deciding to cut out a couple of scenes I was originally thinking of doing. My thought was that they might not be all that interesting for the reader, and it might make for a better reading experience if they were just left out and have the important bits just quickly explained. It makes me think philosophically about the balance of fully showing scenes in detail versus just telling the reader what bits of information they need to know. I'm going to hold that thought for the upload of the story itself and/or the outline, as this journal entry is already rambling on a bit much.
So to wrap it up quickly, I'm confident about getting the second part of "The Challenge" done and uploaded this month, but it's hard for me to say if I'll get another one uploaded after that, as it will be a requested story, and I haven't had any discussion yet with the requester about what it will be, so I don't know what to expect. I kinda have a feeling though that even if it isn't a very long story, I might still not be able to finish it before the end of this month anyway. Just given the overall slower pace that my story writing has taken as of late.
Alright, that's enough from me for this month I think. If you've read through this ramble of random things on my mind, then thank you, and I hope you have a great November. Even if you didn't read through it, I hope you have a great November anyway. =)
