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Snowflake Challenge Day 11: Creative Process
As a writer whose success on finishing projects is at best unpredictable, I have a few things to say about my creative process.
Those who can't do, teach, and all that.
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As a writer whose success on finishing projects is at best unpredictable, I have a few things to say about my creative process.
Those who can't do, teach, and all that.
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Snowflake Challenge Day 5: Moar Internets!
Skipping a couple days here.
Okay. Here we go:
Day 5
In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
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Fandom Snowflake Day 2: Recs!
Sequence by NeurotropicAgentX
Fandom: Venom
This work is marked explicit, even though no sexual organs are described unless you greatly stretch the definition. Nonetheless, it is 2,883 words of what is clearly porn. You kind of have to read it for yourself. Venom and Riot exchange plasmids. Yeah, what you learned about in biochemistry. There are also pilli, and exosomes. It's amazing.
Muckraker! by orphan
Fandom: Venom again
This work is peak anarchy, peak Eddie Brock, peak Lethal Protector. Journalism and hurt-comfort with a murder chaser. 32,000 words, author chose not to use archive warnings. A smart, tightly-constructed vision of the dark side of the sharing economy, free apps, and venture capitalism, as played out in the homeless camps and shelters of San Francisco. Eat The Rich.
Best Revenge Is Your Paper by laiqualaurelote
Fandom: Punisher (Netflix series)
15,000 words, Het (none explicit). Karen Page's POV of Frank's attempt to take down half the DOD, and its aftermath. Grim, right? No. Hilarious. Karen is in full reporter-mode, generally kicking ass. Frank is adorably gritty. And he hates it when you call his car the Murdervan.
Fandom: Venom
This work is marked explicit, even though no sexual organs are described unless you greatly stretch the definition. Nonetheless, it is 2,883 words of what is clearly porn. You kind of have to read it for yourself. Venom and Riot exchange plasmids. Yeah, what you learned about in biochemistry. There are also pilli, and exosomes. It's amazing.
Muckraker! by orphan
Fandom: Venom again
This work is peak anarchy, peak Eddie Brock, peak Lethal Protector. Journalism and hurt-comfort with a murder chaser. 32,000 words, author chose not to use archive warnings. A smart, tightly-constructed vision of the dark side of the sharing economy, free apps, and venture capitalism, as played out in the homeless camps and shelters of San Francisco. Eat The Rich.
Best Revenge Is Your Paper by laiqualaurelote
Fandom: Punisher (Netflix series)
15,000 words, Het (none explicit). Karen Page's POV of Frank's attempt to take down half the DOD, and its aftermath. Grim, right? No. Hilarious. Karen is in full reporter-mode, generally kicking ass. Frank is adorably gritty. And he hates it when you call his car the Murdervan.
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Snowflake Challenge Day 1
Today's assignment is Joy. Self-care. What do I do that gives me joy?
I hate to be a downer but man, what a bad year and what a bad month to ask that.
I usually find my joy by going to the gym. Lifting weights, testing and cultivating my body. I wasn't always a sports girl, but when I was high-school age, my Dad was alarmed by my crappy endurance when making me run stairs as punishment, and had me and my brother put on swim team. This proved to be a good decision. Now I can swim away from danger, and I got a love of high-heart rate, monotonous activity.
In college, I rowed crew. That wasn't so much joy, as pride in shared misery. After college, I lifted weights. I love being strong. I need it for my job.
When I left the sticks to work in the big city, I took Krav Maga and Jiujitsu. I don't plan to pursue Krav into the higher, grab-the-gun-from-the-bad-guy levels, but it was invaluable experience for writing. Jiujitsu, though, I wanted to stick with. There's a lot to learn there, and a much more relaxed atmosphere.
Two months ago I damaged some cartilage in my knee and found out I have a meniscal tear. I'm doing physical therapy. Low-impact exercise. I can't sit down on the floor from standing position because the cartilage clicks whenever I bend my knee half-way through. I used to do pistol squats as part of my routine workout. This sounds stupid, because I'm still basically able-bodied, but I lost something. I lost the ability to sit down in a damn chair without using my hands or lower myself crosslegged to the ground.
Maybe I'll get it back, maybe my knee will smooth out. But articular cartilage doesn't come back. It just depends on how big the damaged area is.
So basically, what makes me happy is work. I like fixing people's problems and ferreting out what's causing them.
Also I enjoy cooking and target-shooting and walking my dog. I should probably be able to jog with him eventually. I hope. And I love writing and researching. Looking back on what I've written and being satisfied for bringing it into the world.