Laughter Through Tears

allbingo is having a fairy tale fest for August. Here's my card:

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My ideas for stories lately have been overly abstract and difficult to realize, and also I keep forgetting to keep a notebook on me at all times. As a desperation maneuver I generated a square from allbingo's legendary bingo square generator to try and force the issue using the old "double line" refinement procedure. It's worked for me before, but now I'm trying for original fiction (at least some of it), so the additional narrowing parameter of "what fandom is this right for" won't be on my side.

The square:

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My ideas:

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There are a lot of ideas locked in this card and I'm so glad I generated it. I don't know if I'll manage a strict double row for a bingo, but the goal is to write, and for that I hope it will suffice. Just have to jump the next hurdle, which is the threat of the blank page staring at you from the computer screen. But that's a perennial problem and not going to go away any time soon. I failed to write first thing in the morning today so I don't know if I'll manage any new words, but otherwise I feel like this is shaping up to be a pretty productive writing day. And the morning's not gone yet.

For the summer round of genprompt_bingo:

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You know those memes that go around periodically about posting fanfic and irrationally hoping to get instant feedback? Today I crossposted four ficlets from fic_promptly comments to AO3. Within three hours they all had hits and kudos, and I got a gushing comment on an older fic, too. One of my favorites, in fact (even if some days I can't stand to look at it).

My apartment needs a thorough cleaning but I don't feel like doing it.

I've decided that it's time to give up on doing a blackout for genprompt_bingo. It was a nice thought, and hypothetically feasible, but I just don't have that kind of attention span right now. I have too many projects running in parallel. Meanwhile my big bang piece has reached the interesting part and now I get to decide how intereting it's going to be.

Lots going on. Family stuff, possible job prospect. Frankly I'd rather keep blogging about fanfic and avoid thinking about it for a couple of hours.

curtainfic	unrequited love / pining	au: royalty / aristocracy / feudal	au: alternate professions	slavefic
role reversal	au: apocalypse	reunion	bodyswap	genderswap
marriage	au: mundane	FREE ★ SPACE	trapped in a dream	twenty-four hours to live
character in distress	au: supernatural	kidfic	transformations	indecent proposal
soul bonding / soulmates	au: romance novel	mind games	road trip	amnesia

Hmm. Maybe I should take a leaf out of owlmoose's book and try a double line.

Steeping myself in creative pursuits is very satisfying and makes my days feel empty. I'm a little anxious about getting too comfortable being unemployed. I do have some avenues to pursue on that front, but the uncertainty is starting to unnerve me. Right now having all this free time is pretty nice, but in the long run I'm going to pay for it.

Probably what will happen is that I will start looking for QA work in Jerusalem (which I am technically overqualified for, but). I'm pretty optimistic about the work itself, because I think going down a step in the hierarchy may end up having various advantages. The trick is to leverage myself, and initiating action is always difficult for me.

On a brighter note, I got a trope_bingo card, so now I'm working on two cards simultaneously. #lifestylechoices

I finally made my trope_bingo amnesty post. It also made me think back to my out-of-date trope checklist.

Part of me itches to have another card. the card framework really helps me focus my thoughts, for some reason. Not like I don't have plenty of WIPs to keep me busy, I have at least three or four right now. Not mentioning my unfinished Twine game and every other project I've left to simmer. But I find it hard to focus.

FFS, I should be able to write like a normal person from now until January, shouldn't I?

Whatever. I'm still pleased with the amount of tropefic I wrote in two months, even if I didn't make a bingo.

I could still write that bed sharing story I was brainstorming and complete an amnesty vertical line. But after this week I never want to write again.

(I will have to write because femslashex is due next week, but I'm not thinking about that for the next few hours.)

I spent this month stressing over job interviews and writing fanfic. There are four complete works on my AO3 account dated October. There are also unfinished works and old works that I uploaded and backdated, and some anonymous meme fills. I may be suffering from fanfic fatigue, but I'm pretty proud of my output.

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ETA: Whoops last second fill completion.