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Oct. 24th, 2015 08:22 pm
yuuago: (Default)
Today was pretty productive on the writing front, and... not at all on any other front.

-Did a final-final revision for the treat I wrote for [community profile] trickortreatex. Completed it like a month ago and I figured I might as well do some last-minute tweaking.
-Slapped down maybe 400 words on that aRTD ghost story, which is now definitely not going to be finished in time for Halloween, alas. But that's okay. Ghost stories are good at any time of year.
-Wrote about 500 words on a Yuletide treat (... it's going to need a lot more).
-Typed up draft of an Emil/Lalli fic for the SSSS prompt meme on tumblr. Draft is finished, but it needs... something. Well, revisions in general, but it's lacking oomph. I'll need to sit on it a while and then look at it later.

And I did basically nothing else. Came home after hanging at the cafe for a bit, flopped into bed, and passed out for a couple of hours. Then wrote more in the evening. I don't know why I randomly fall asleep on weekend afternoons; maybe I just get so little sleep during the week that I need to catch up. Or something.

Started my secret indexing project yesterday. First part went easy enough, but after this point, it will be harder. This thing is going to be hell on my wrists, but it's a project with a defined end, so that's all right. It's probably a good thing that I'm not kink meme indexing any more; disappointing that I never did complete it, but I don't think I would be able to handle it nowadays, physically.

Feeling a little melancholy for no particular reason... It's probably just my brain doing its thing again. I'm sure tomorrow will be better.

[edit] Oh, and I made some quick autumn icons, if anyone's interested in that. Landscapes and assorted other autumny things. They're over here.

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Oct. 19th, 2015 09:26 pm
yuuago: (A Redtail's Dream - Silence)
☆ Feeling a lot better today. Not 100%, but good enough. Seems like not doing anything on the weekend was the best idea, even if I wish it hadn't been necessary. I mean, a little downtime is nice, but not if it's... uh. Like that. Spending all day in bed when you don't want to is the worst.

☆ Today I made up for the fact that I did zero writing on the weekend. How? By pulling an entire fic draft out of the air. Not sure how that happened, but I'm sure not complaining. This thing is probably going to need a bucket of revisions, and it isn't even something I'm supposed to be working on (neither a current WIP, nor Yuletide treats - it's in response to a prompt meme) but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth, so to speak.

☆ Since full-blown NaNo is beyond me, I decided to join [community profile] mini_wrimo. Now, this? This, I can do. 100-word minimum per day is something I can do. Well, maybe I won't be able to manage it every day. But I can try. Especially if I draft on paper - that means I'll be able to work on stuff when at lunch, too.

☆ I'm in the mood to skald All The Things. Which is... not so good... Self, scale it back a little, you don't need any new projects. (But I'm itching to do nitpicky recordkeeping!) If my wrists can take it, I might start on Unnamed Project some time this week. Maybe. Or at least I can throw the spreadsheets together and suss out the logistics of it. We're nearing a chapter break in SSSS, so it's a convenient time....

☆ Election results are in! Harper is out! Not sure how I feel about the results in and of themselves, but the important thing is that Harper is out.

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Oct. 9th, 2015 09:59 pm
yuuago: (Netherlands - Oh?)
I feel like I accomplished nothing today. Damn. Did do a little writing, but it was very little, and I think I'm going to have to rewrite the whole thing.

It was super nice today, though. I didn't even have to wear my autumn coat. Headed out in the morning to the spa for a massage, which was also nice. Just wish that I hadn't wasted so much time today.

Watched Insidious 3 with the gang this evening. That was all right. There were some things in it that kind of upset me, but like - it's horror genre. And sometimes things that upset me appear in it. It's normal. Anyway, as for Insidious 3 - it's a prequel to the first Insidious film, so it doesn't matter that I haven't seen Insidious 2. I thought it was all right; not the best horror film I've seen, but not the worst either. It's possible that I liked it more than I otherwise would have because I really enjoy Lin Shaye as Elise Rainier, the Medium in the Insidious series. Honestly, she's like, the best part. Then again, I have a thing for tough old gals, I guess....

Terribly exhausted tonight because last night I stayed up until midnight, like a dumbass. Bad decision. Worst decision. Blech. But I was working on something and didn't want to stop.

What I was working on: Skalding the aRTD archive comment poetry. Nobody's ever done it. I figured, WHY NOT. ... Errrr explanation: in SSSS/aRTD fandom, "skalding/skaldwork" is nitpicky recordkeeping/archival stuff. Indexing, basically. So I was... indexing poetry from the aRTD comment archives... yes. (Christ on a cracker, I'm so tired.)

I've neglected the Nordic index for months, so I guess I felt compelled to do some indexing for some reason. I don't know. I... um. To be honest, I'll probably never go back to working on the Nordic index; Delicious is too frustrating to use, and my interest in the Hetalia kink meme has waned significantly. I never even check it any more.

... Anyway. I have another aRTD skalding project that I'm thinking of doing, but I'm not going to talk about it, because then I would need to commit to it. And this one was hell on my wrists, so, uh, not for a while. Yes.

Thanksgiving this weekend. Not looking forward to it. On the one hand: I don't have to go to work on Monday. On the other hand: because of the holiday, it won't be a restful weekend. Grumble, grumble.
yuuago: (Default)
Man. Fic is one thing, but there are so many fandom-related things that I do that are composed of fiddly behind-the-scenes stuff, and for the last few... months... I've let that slide. It's time to get back on it again.

I've discovered that The News From Lake Wobegon is really excellent background noise for when I'm doing kink meme indexing. That's great, because I have at least 100 episodes of that to catch up on, and 23 parts left to re-index due to the LJ->DW transfer. While I was neglecting this project because it's just so tedious, maybe this will help me catch up....

Made some progress, at least. Parts 24-27 are now covered. I'll start on Part 23... tomorrow, maybe.

AHH going to have to remind myself to take care of some early organizational fest-related things, too. At least contact my co-mod from last year and see if she's still in. But... not tonight.

zzzzZZZZzzz...
yuuago: (Netherlands - Derp)
✿ The Delicious export issue is fixed. But they've disabled import, probably permanently. Going to have to decide what to do as far as this goes... but in the meantime I'll be continuing to do dual Delicious/Pinboard indexing. At least until I figure something out.

✿ There is some re-arranging going on at work... We're switching over to a new program for our paperwork and whatnot. I expect it'll be fine, but there are some rumours going around that someone might be cut. Logically-speaking, I'm pretty sure that I'm secure, but that doesn't prevent me from worrying.

✿ I'm so looking forward to the weekend. So many things that I need to do... how the heck is January already half over?! It hasn't even started yet! Time, you get back here right this minute, thanks.
yuuago: (Iceland - Hmph)
I spent way too long working on the Nordic Index last night only to discover that the export function in Delicious is broken and I couldn't import it to Pinboard. Fun.

My support ticket was answered, which was really surprising, but in the meantime I'm probably going to have to manually transfer everything. For the 'dex, at least; my personal stuff might have to wait (and hopefully it will get fixed).

I held on with the "slap it on Delicious and then export" system for quite a while because even though Pinboard functions better, I prefer the tag-filtering system on Delicious - last I checked you could only filter by 3 tags on Pinboard, while there's no limit on Delicious. It'd be fine for an index for a smaller kink meme, but [personal profile] hetalia_kink has 27 parts and there are, for example, 300 index entries for Nordics in the last 3 parts alone... so. (And I really should get around to doing the transfer between the LJ and DW entries. I keep meaning to. But there are thousands and it's so tedious. Oh, well....)

Anyway, a preference for a minor function is what kept me going with this. But this is ridiculous. Going to have to switch to doing index on Pinboard, then (if the function gets fixed) import to Delicious. And start by manually re-indexing everything that I added last night. Oy.

Sometimes, I wonder why I still do this. I've become a little frustrated with our KM - aside from that one thing I recommended on tumblr last month or so, there hasn't been anything that I've liked in ages, so it's really hard to motivate myself to keep working on this thing. It would be fine if the systems worked perfectly, but that rarely happens.

I'll probably be less cranky about this when I wake up properly.

u3u

Aug. 4th, 2014 06:54 pm
yuuago: (Birds)
So, I managed to get my dear friend Tik to watch Anno 1790. :D This is great, because it's really one of my favourite series. Maybe now that she's familiar with it, we can bounce ideas off one another... I'd really love to write casefic for that series, but coming up with good plots is something that doesn't come easy for me, unfortunately.

Today was too hot. And tiring. And I did a lot of cleaning. Nothing special.

The saskatoon berries on our bush are ripe and delicious. I'm going to pick them some time in the next few days, I think. But first I need to buy bug spray, because the mosquitoes are ridiculously bothersome lately.

Been working on transferring prompts from the LJ version of the Nordic Index to the DW version. It's slow going, and it'll be forever before I finally finish, but at least I'm started. That's the important part. We'll see how it goes... I don't expect that I'll run into any snags, just that it'll take a long time because of course I have to do everything manually, since there's no easy way to take a LJ URL and directly map it over with its Dreamwidth import without fiddling.

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Oct. 20th, 2013 07:34 pm
yuuago: (Ghost)
This weekend was very tiresome and I'm glad it's nearly over.

I'm thinking about how I should manage my time better. I just feel like... I should take time to watch more movies. Read more, maybe. Actually -- reading would definitely help, I think, because it doesn't involve looking at a screen, so at least it'll be easier on my eyes than anything involving a screen would be. I mean, I stare at computers all day at work... I don't need spectacles quite yet, but I will eventually. Might as well make sure not to speed that up too much, right?

Oh, but speaking of films, I was just reminded of the existence of The Darjeeling Limited. It's odd that I occasionally forget about it, because it's a film I really enjoy, but there it is. I should re-watch it some time soon. Except I can't remember where I put the DVD, hmm. It's lovely, though. And the soundtrack is great too....

Picked up the first collected of the manga Vinland Saga while I was downtown yesterday. I only have the vaguest idea of what it deals with, but with a title like that, it's no surprise I'd be interested, right? Besides, I've heard a lot of people say that it's great, so. Now, this is the fancy-schmancy collected hardback edition... I think it covers the first three volumes. Surprised that I found it in our local bookstore; they don't usually carry hardback manga.

Anyway. My buddy Lilly is organizing a prompt-based Sweden/Finland fest similar to that Norway/Iceland one that was held earlier this year. I'm kind of thinking of joining, kind of not. On the one hand, I don't have a lot of time, and I don't even ship it. On the other hand... I like challenges, and it might be a fun opportunity to push myself a little. (Besides, it's been a while since I've written anything with Finland. And I do like Finland.) And depending on what kind of prompts I get, I might be able to do some interesting research... gah, I don't know, I'll have to think about it.

If I do take part in this it will definitely interfere with my "National Fic Finishing Month" though, hmm. :|

... Oh crap, I was going to do indexing tonight and completely forgot about it. Note to self: do it tomorrow. Or something.
yuuago: (Netherlands - Oh?)
I thought that I hadn't done much this weekend, but looking back on it, I guess I did.

Managed to revive the Nordic Index (Contact post and links to the Delicious + Pinboard versions are here). I'm only going to be indexing stuff that was posted after the move to DW, since there's so much of it.

Mostly I've been working on FSTs. I finished a special one that I'd made for a friend, and put in some good progress on the Den/Nor playlist that I've been working on for over a year. It's allllmost done; I just need to put together a cover and draw up some .txts - Tracklist + explanation of narrative, and lyrics/translations list. Then I'll be done.

I know the Done Thing is to host this stuff on 8tracks these days, but I HATE 8TRACKS. It's so... clunky and convoluted and just ugh.

Anyway. Sigh, people have been talking about Yuletide for a couple of weeks now. I really wish that I could join in with it, but I really am not able to commit to exchanges at this time, especially when it comes to fandoms that I've never written before. Quite a bummer. But at least I can enjoy reading what people turn out this year.

On a completely unrelated note, I went for a driving lesson today, and did a lot better than I expected to. The instructor said that I need to practice highway driving and merging, but aside from that I'm pretty okay. It's kind of a relief. I haven't been driving much ever since mum started having all her health problems, so I was really out of practice. Now, hopefully I'll be able to do it a little more. I really, really hope I'll be able to get more highway practice... driving in this city is a complete mess because of all the construction, so I need more experience with that.

It's good to know I'm doing better than I thought, though. What I want to do is practice from now, through winter, until the snow is gone, and then get my driver's license in late spring. Ultimately, the goal is to have it before my birthday (July 10th). Seems pretty reasonable. One more step toward my ultimate goal of getting out of here! (... Plus, for a while I've had some wild and crazy desire to some day drive down to Waterton Lakes national park on my own - while taking a detour through Drumheller - and then spend a week on vacation in the mountains without family to bother me. It sounds so nice. So it's one step toward being able to do that, too.)

Anyway. I have a fic that I need to revise for a friend... let's see how far I can get into that before I have to go to bed. u3u
yuuago: (DenNor - I won't say)
Next few weeks, one of my projects is going to be getting the indexes running again.

I'll need to work on time management in order to do it... but I think I can do it.

I'm just going to go slow and take it one little bit at a time. That's the best way.

To-do under here )
yuuago: (Netherlands - Rest)
A lot of the time, I find myself thinking of things during the day that I want to write in here.

And then as soon as I get home I pretty much collapse into a blob and want to close my eyes. Ughhhh I hate being too tired to do anything.

I was thinking about these things today. I'm going to make a list of them so I don't forget. Maybe I'll write about some of it on the weekend:

-The new book I'm reading right now is made up of short stories that are based on some medieval Danish ballads or something, and it's really great.
-The previous book I read, Random Passage, is really awesome for a variety of reasons which I won't get into right now
-Logistics of kink meme indexing AKA oh fuck me I don't want to have to start all over again
-I received Siren's book of lolita designs inspired by The Hobbit when I checked the mail today, and it is AWESOME
-I want to make an index entry of all my doujinshi because I keep forgetting which ones I have and it'd be awesome to have a quickref rather than pulling them out of storage
-I have a zillion and one Hetalia fics that I want to write, including some Norway/Spain. Roleplay is the only thing that explains my sudden interest in this pairing, alas. (But it would be cute.) (At least, I think.)

.... ZzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz
yuuago: (NorIce - Brothers)
So, I finally finished that Nor/Ice fest fic that I've been agonizing over for... uh... over a month actually.

I FEEL SO LIBERATED. FINALLY. IT'S DONE. And I thought it was going to suck, but it actually isn't too bad, so I'm going to call this a win.

Now I can go back to working on other stuff. Should be interesting. I don't know if I want to continue what I was working on before, or start something new. Well, I'll think about it. (... I should probably finish some of the stuff I have on the go, first. Or at least poke at it.)

Today wasn't the best in a variety of little annoying ways but somehow, managing to do this juuuust before midnight makes everything else okay.

Anyway. The Hetalia kink meme moved over to Dreamwidth today. There'll probably be some growing pains but I think everything will go fine. Indexes, well... Uh. Hmm. I'm not even going to think about that right now. Thinking about it gives me a headache, heh. I'll tackle that tomorrow, maybe. Or maybe I'll wait until the request period is closed first before I start anything.

In other news it is now past midnight and I am not tired, goddamnit. :'|

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Mar. 30th, 2013 11:45 am
yuuago: (NorIce - Brothers)
So, so. Easter tomorrow. Having an extra day off was nice.

It's still incredibly difficult to get anything done these days. With good reason, mind you, but it's still frustrating. I think that I might have to further re-arrange my way of doing time management in order to compensate. I've already done that, mind you, but there need to be more adjustments. On the upside, the internet as a whole seems sluggish lately, so I doubt I'll be missing much if I spend more time doing housework and unwinding by watching movies instead of screwing around on twitter. Honestly.

Note to self: Do up the posting guidelines for Nordipalooza and post them on Monday or something. Give people time to read them, because there will inevitably be questions. Yes.

I definitely will not have time to do my fic the way that I want it to, and that's really disappointing. I know I can revise and expand it, and I will do that after the fest, but - still. Oh well, it's just bad luck. I definitely do not plan to let all that research go to waist, though. Not at all. And maybe I can use it at some later date somehow, too. I just - man, I really love the 1600s, and if I could write something cool set during that time, it'd make me really happy. That book I recently acquired about Sweden during the 17th century might be useful too, not as much for this fic but maybe a different one. We'll see.

I'm almost finished adjusting the date tags for the Nordic index. There are about two more parts that need to be done, and that's maybe 400 tags, but it isn't really that big a deal, it's actually maybe just 4 hours of straight work, I think. Then I'll have to go through everything in order to make sure I caught it all, which might take a while, but we'll see. I'm really excited that this is almost done, because I've been working on it long enough, for sure. After that, I'll make a guide on how to use it, because some people seem to not really know how. There are some tricks to it, definitely. Probably going to host that both on LJ and Tumblr... frustrating though Tumblr is. Argh, I hate using it. And formatting posts is a royal pain in the ass. But what can ya' do, really.

Recently started watching Sherlock. It's... all right. I'll watch the whole series, since it's so short, and I do want to know what everyone's been flapping their hands about. (And also because there's a Sherlock + Millennium trilogy crossover that I want to read, and I hate reading crossovers when I don't know both canons). But man, it was hard to get through the first episode, because I kept wanting to punch Sherlock Holmes. I usually don't mind Holmes as a character, but this one, oh gods, I can't stand him! I love Watson, though, so hopefully I'll be able to concentrate mostly on him and ignore Sherlock's... face-punchingly-irritating Sherlock-ness.

Started listening to Of Monsters and Men. It only clicked a few days ago that the songs I've heard going around were all by them. Well, I hear "Little Talks" at least once every day on the radio, and I'm still not sick of it, so that's a good sign, heh. Didn't know they were from Iceland, neither... Anyway, I really should seek out more music like this eventually; it's nicely in line with my tates.
yuuago: (BlackJack - Coffee)
These last few days have been filled with writing-related angst to the tune of "Nothing is coming out the way that I want it to" and "I don't feel like writing epic historical fic and for some reason I feel guilty about that". Same old nonsense. TL;DR I should just write whatever the hell it is I want to write, but for some reason it isn't happening. Uh. Well, hopefully I'll get over that soon.

Right now I'm reading a book about 18th-century pirates in the Caribbean (...no relation to the film series) and it's kind of getting me pumped for a fic I've been plotting out for a while. Pirates aren't involved, but it is set somewhere in the Caribbean (haven't decided quite where yet). And every so often the subject of the Dutch and trade routes and whatnot comes up in the book, and that is relevant to my story. It's nice to be reading something that gets me excited to work on a project even if it isn't directly related.

I still have no idea how the heck to write Netherlands and Belgium, though. Well, I guess I'll figure it out as I go. And there's a big part of the plot near the beginning that I haven't sussed out yet but I think can be solved with a convenient storm... maybe. Oh, who knows!

Been trying to figure out the format for the Nordic kink meme fill-fest idea, and whether I should do it at all. I like the idea of having some kind of challenge to encourage people to write new Nordic fills on the kink meme, and it'd probably be fun. On the other hand, in order to get more people involved, I would have to use a tumblr sub-blog to advertise and encourage people from there to join. That's fine in theory, but a lot of people from tumblr don't understand how the kink meme works, and I have a feeling that if I did that then there would be a lot of times where I would have to explain (and re-explain) how to fill on the kink meme, and that no, posting your fill on tumblr but not on the kink meme itself does NOT count as a fill. (Jesus fucking christ, this is one of my worst pet peeves in relation to tumblr + kink meme, ugh).

Maybe it would be better to simply put up an LJ community (as I was going to do anyway) and then instead of crossposting all the entries from there to a subblog, just do one or two advertising posts on my regular fandom tumblr. That way it would be clear that all activity must take place on LJ. At least, theoretically it would be clear. One never really knows with tumblr.

Or maybe I should just put that idea aside and hold Nordipalooza again. That would probably be more work, but it was a lot of fun last time.

Okay!

Jan. 28th, 2013 08:44 pm
yuuago: (OzNZ - Friends)
Update on that real life stuff )

In other news - finally figured out a way to work on the Delicious problem. Update using Delicious, then import everything to Pinboard. Pinboard is navigable, and everyone is happy. Now that I've fixed that up, fixing the date tags can continue as usual. I hope to have that done by the end of next month.

I kind of want to write something special for valentines day, but I doubt I'll have the time to actually write something and get it finished. But finishing something I already have on the go might be possible. Well, I'll try that.

I really look forward to decreasing the mountain of unread books in my bedroom. This is getting a little bit... ridiculous. They're everywhere. I think I'll get through the graphic novels quickly when I get to them, at least, which is good because there's several of them. Argh, if only I were faster at reading. Maybe I wouldn't have this problem. (Nonsense, I totally would.)

It's supposed to be -40C tomorrow morning, and I'm really not looking forward to it. :'|

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Jan. 19th, 2013 05:46 pm
yuuago: (Norway - Secret cute)
It's cold as balls out. All I want to do is huddle inside, wrapped up in a blanket. Ugh, why can't humans be like Moomins and sleep all winter. Why. Regardless, I had to go out at a ridiculous hour of the morning and endure -30C to get to an appointment and I just... am glad that ordeal is over with, because even though I was dressed properly, it was still really unpleasant.

I've been keeping my eye on Delicious. The recent site redesign has me seething, because it kills most of the functions used in the indexes. But apparently they're going to be re-introducing almost all of the features I need, so until then, I'm just going to keep an eye on it. (Why couldn't they just put everything in to begin with? I wonder. Then again, they did this last time). In the meantime, whenever I need to use 'dexes myself, I've been turning to Pinboard. Not too fond of its layout, but it does what I need it to do, for now. I need to make an account to use for the Baltic index, come to think of it. Have a mirror for the Nordex, but not the Baltics. I'll have to get on that. Not sure what to do with the latest request rounds, though. Wait until Delicious works itself out? Ugh.

Writing is... uh... not going. Haven't had time, and it's disappointing. I have so many fics on the go, and I keep getting ideas, but - no time. Did try working on something yesterday, but just kept staring at it because something seemed off. Think I figured out the problem with it, though. So, hopefully tomorrow I'll actually be able to get some work done on that.
yuuago: (Norway - Cold)
Boring real life stuff )

With the way LJ has been going up and down and up and down lately, people are scrambling to back things up. I'm no different. I've been going through Delicious and saving copies of all the stuff I have bookmarked. It's a pain in the ass, but what can ya' do, really.

I'm trying not to think too much about "What if" scenarios. That's just bothersome. But it doesn't hurt to be cautious, either.

People at the APH Anon Meme have been kind of flailing around because of all the outages. I'm not sure what we're going to do if LJ implodes completely. Some of them will move to the DW backup, I guess, but others - who knows?

The things I'm hearing about revised Delicious are not good, either. I'm going to have to be extra-vigilant about backing up indexes on there. I don't want to have to move everything to Pinboard permanently, but I need to be prepared to do that if it is necessary.

On the writing front, things are... uh. Going, I guess. Hard to find time for it, but I keep trying. I've been feeling a little bit frustrated with it lately; nothing seems to be turning out the way that I want it to. I have a new thing that I started recently, a kind of "fluff with plot" thing, and while it should be relatively straightforward, it isn't. I keep getting hung up on trying to decide what would be the right way for the characters to act toward one another, the right things that they need to say in order for the story to advance, and I just - I don't know, I'm having a ton of trouble with it. I guess if it doesn't turn out right when I scribble it down, I can fix it in the revising, but I'd rather do it properly the first time.

Well, okay

Dec. 23rd, 2012 10:14 am
yuuago: (BlackJack - Coffee)
Solstice came and went, but I didn't really observe it, because I was at work that day. What a bummer. This always happens, though. I should be used to it.

Everyone's in a panic to get things done... Gods, I'm going to be so happy when this Christmas bullshit is over. My family spends so much time worrying about being perfect that nobody actually takes a few minutes to relax and enjoy things, and it makes the entire thing really stressful and unpleasant.

It's -33C today and I was thinking about going out, but with it that cold, it definitely isn't happening. I think I'll just hole myself up in the house and whine about it. I definitely am ready for it to stop being chilly - but it'll get worse before it gets better.

I'm waiting for a box of yarn to come in. It's frustrating, argh, I want it to be here RIGHT NOW. But it isn't. ;p I've been knitting so much lately, and it's really great, but it's frustrating as hell realizing I don't quite have enough of whatever-it-is and need to wait for more. orz It should be here some time this week, though. I think. (I hope.)

Fandom-related: Haven't really had time for anything lately. Writing is at a standstill until I can find some peace and quiet (so... probably not until after Christmas is over). Indexing is on-and-off; it's easier to find time for that but the date-adding still is not done.

I'm thinking about running Nordipalooza again sometime in the spring, but I haven't decided yet. If I do, I might consider tweaking the format so that writing one short story is an option. And I'll definitely give a longer time period before posting opens + posting ends, so that people have more time to get things done.

So, so.

Dec. 9th, 2012 12:50 pm
yuuago: (Finland - Coffee)
Last week was so busy, ahhh. And this week coming up will probably be so as well. With Christmas coming up, it's hard to get anything done, and things tend to be so busy that I find myself generally wanting to be by myself, which is why I haven't been talking to people much lately. Also, since it's been consistently very cold and snowy out, I don't want to leave the house, which is also an issue (I get so much done if I take what I'm working on to the cafe... but at home? Little progress.)

I spent most of Saturday afternoon watching Norwegian slasher films. One would say that I use it as a studying strategy - it's so much easier for me to understand Norwegian when it's spoken rather than written - but really what I needed was something not-very-intelligent and easy to understand that I could watch while knitting. I've been working on this scarf for months and I want to finish it, damn it. But I'm only halfway done. xD Turns out that Fritt Vilt is a pretty decent film, though! (The other two in the series, on the other hand, are not so good.)

Anyway. Fandom-related things... I was making some good progress with adding dates to the Nordex for a while, but then I fell behind on it. Need to get to work on that - as well as adding the most recent round of requests/fills. I still have to add dates to parts 2-9, but I don't expect that it will take that long; even though there are a lot of bookmarks, I've done some work on it already. It should be done by the end of the year. Then in the new year, I'll hold some kind of Nordic writing challenge for the kink meme, though I have not yet decided how I'm going to organize that.

Writing is kind of paused because I haven't really have much time for it. But I do want to make "Get things finished!" another project, and will probably start sometime in January. It'll be easier when things calm down. I have lots of ideas, but time... not so much.

I want to write some historical stories, but then I keep running into the problem of feeling unsure about myself whenever I do something like that. I always feel like the writing quality of anything historical that I write is just plain not as good as my work in a modern setting - with the possible exception of the story I wrote about the Baltic Way (it might be very old, but I'm still pleased with it). Anyway, I want to work on something with an actual plot, and I have a good idea, but I'll need to research a little about Dutch trade in the West Indies first.

Also-also, talking with Cof has kind of rekindled some vague ideas I had about writing things involving the death of Karl XII, but I'd need to read more things and actually decide what direction I'd want to take that, if I did do it.

Current writing queue )
yuuago: (DenNor - I won't say)
Normally I don't have too much trouble keeping track of this stuff, but damn, right now I'm all over the place.

So... )
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