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Dec. 28th, 2020 05:49 pmSince I only wrote five things this year and one of those is an unfinished WIP and two won't be revealed until New Year's Day, I'm skipping the writing wrap-up this year. Only 41,414 words this year for fanfic, which doesn't take into account of course the aborted attempts at RL fiction and the other writing I do for other things. Now I have to try to bang out a chapter of the WIP, though that's unlikely to get my word count up much before Jan. 1.
I'm also skipping doing recs for Yuletide this year, since I'll be doing the 31 Flavors meme again in January, and that way I'll have more things to rec. I'm having a lot of trouble concentrating on reading Yuletide so far--I feel like I've made a dent, but it's a small one. There are some really long stories in some of my fandoms.
Thanks for all the advice on cooking the potatoes--this time, holiday dinner solo wasn't quite the disaster that it has been recently and I did have a pretty decent meal. There are these cookies we used to make in my family from a really old recipe, and I wanted to try them on my own this Christmas, but I'm not sure I'm woman enough to do it so I punted on that; it's such a daunting recipe because it's very very old and uses all kinds of challenging ingredients and literally takes days to complete. But if not during pandemic holiday, then when? I really should try to tackle them.
I've had to force myself to stop checking email for comments on my Yuletide fics. It's clear they're not coming, and that the stories have been disappointments, so the few that they've had is what they're going to get. Checking email and hoping is the equivalent of hitting your head against a wall. I probably should have defaulted back when I had the chance instead of working so hard on something that doesn't seem to have succeeded, but I've never defaulted before, and it's such a hard mindset to get into when you're determined to see something through.
I hope if you did Yuletide or any other holiday exchange, you got what you wanted! I've seen some really clever things this year that I'm looking forward to reccing, and it's always fun to see people get blown away by someone taking a prompt they made and turning it into something really cool. I wish a lot of my fandoms were still eligible and hadn't topped out, but I'm still managing to find a few of fandoms to read in. It's hard to believe reveals are in a few days.
I'm also skipping doing recs for Yuletide this year, since I'll be doing the 31 Flavors meme again in January, and that way I'll have more things to rec. I'm having a lot of trouble concentrating on reading Yuletide so far--I feel like I've made a dent, but it's a small one. There are some really long stories in some of my fandoms.
Thanks for all the advice on cooking the potatoes--this time, holiday dinner solo wasn't quite the disaster that it has been recently and I did have a pretty decent meal. There are these cookies we used to make in my family from a really old recipe, and I wanted to try them on my own this Christmas, but I'm not sure I'm woman enough to do it so I punted on that; it's such a daunting recipe because it's very very old and uses all kinds of challenging ingredients and literally takes days to complete. But if not during pandemic holiday, then when? I really should try to tackle them.
I've had to force myself to stop checking email for comments on my Yuletide fics. It's clear they're not coming, and that the stories have been disappointments, so the few that they've had is what they're going to get. Checking email and hoping is the equivalent of hitting your head against a wall. I probably should have defaulted back when I had the chance instead of working so hard on something that doesn't seem to have succeeded, but I've never defaulted before, and it's such a hard mindset to get into when you're determined to see something through.
I hope if you did Yuletide or any other holiday exchange, you got what you wanted! I've seen some really clever things this year that I'm looking forward to reccing, and it's always fun to see people get blown away by someone taking a prompt they made and turning it into something really cool. I wish a lot of my fandoms were still eligible and hadn't topped out, but I'm still managing to find a few of fandoms to read in. It's hard to believe reveals are in a few days.
