All the Things
Sep. 12th, 2021 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonOne thing I've learned this week while following through with my Ramping Things Up plan is that I'm being a hell of a lot less nitpicky about my rough drafts. Which is actually a GOOD thing, because I have a habit of taking far too long trying to bash out the Perfect Manuscript on the first try. Sure, cutting terrible ideas or fixing a sentence here and there is fine, but I'm no longer spending three hours writing 500 words and expecting poetry. This does NOT mean I'm being super lazy and writing nonsensical crap, of course. It just means I'm not hyperfocusing on something that doesn't need hyperfocusing right that moment. The aim is just to get the story out and ready. In essence, I'm finally letting myself be rough with the rough draft.
So what does it look like so far? Per my full outline on Project A, I think I'm about 2/3rds of the way through, which is Not Bad At All. That one's gonna need some TLC in regards to details and continuity, but I'm happy with where I stand with it at the moment. Project B is finally out of the Rewriting Older Scenes haze and is now heading forward with All New Words. Woo! And Project C is already headlong into Chapter 2. It's definitely rough as they come, but I'm liking what I have so far.
Oh, and hey, I'm even getting my daily drawings and poetry done on a consistent basis! Daily Schedule for the win!
Next up: I now own an earlier version of Sound Forge as well as a free version of ProTools, and I have had sounds, beats and riffs in my head for years that I should probably record and see what I can do with them. I'll need to find a bit of time, maybe end of day, to fiddle around with those programs and figure out how to use them.
As for noncreative stuff...? Hmm. I've been terrible in terms of exercise and snacking lately. Time to adjust on those things as well. We've been going for walks when we can, and I've been reminding myself to get off my duff at least once every hour. I really need to get going on slimming down, though. I'm not terribly overweight, but I can definitely do with erasing some of that extra middle area one way or another.
Oh -- and we've had some banking nonsense to contend with...apparently our landlord had an office break-in and our rent check was stolen and cashed. For now we're not having the account changed as I saw no other shiftiness aside from that one thing (which, alongside the fraudster's absolutely terrible attempt at frauding, makes me think it didn't even occur to them to hack our account). Long story short, our bank is in the midst of fixing it, thankfully our landlord has been very kind and patient about it. Eesh!
Other than that...it's been a busy but extremely productive week and I am extremely happy about that. Whoo!
So what does it look like so far? Per my full outline on Project A, I think I'm about 2/3rds of the way through, which is Not Bad At All. That one's gonna need some TLC in regards to details and continuity, but I'm happy with where I stand with it at the moment. Project B is finally out of the Rewriting Older Scenes haze and is now heading forward with All New Words. Woo! And Project C is already headlong into Chapter 2. It's definitely rough as they come, but I'm liking what I have so far.
Oh, and hey, I'm even getting my daily drawings and poetry done on a consistent basis! Daily Schedule for the win!
Next up: I now own an earlier version of Sound Forge as well as a free version of ProTools, and I have had sounds, beats and riffs in my head for years that I should probably record and see what I can do with them. I'll need to find a bit of time, maybe end of day, to fiddle around with those programs and figure out how to use them.
As for noncreative stuff...? Hmm. I've been terrible in terms of exercise and snacking lately. Time to adjust on those things as well. We've been going for walks when we can, and I've been reminding myself to get off my duff at least once every hour. I really need to get going on slimming down, though. I'm not terribly overweight, but I can definitely do with erasing some of that extra middle area one way or another.
Oh -- and we've had some banking nonsense to contend with...apparently our landlord had an office break-in and our rent check was stolen and cashed. For now we're not having the account changed as I saw no other shiftiness aside from that one thing (which, alongside the fraudster's absolutely terrible attempt at frauding, makes me think it didn't even occur to them to hack our account). Long story short, our bank is in the midst of fixing it, thankfully our landlord has been very kind and patient about it. Eesh!
Other than that...it's been a busy but extremely productive week and I am extremely happy about that. Whoo!
