Good afternoon, squiders, I am writing to you on my laptop, which has been wiped and re-populated (and, while I have not yet re-opened House Flipper to see the state of things, it does say it’s up to date in the cloud, so I have high hopes).
(The resolution is a little off where it was before, but all the numbers are right, so who even knows.)
I’ve also gotten new headphones that I bought from Prime Day, over the ear ones with noise cancelling, and thus far they seem to be working great, with the added benefit that the chaos the kids are up to in the background is dampened to an ignorable level.
So I’m feeling pretty good about that, at least, even though I have also somehow managed to make it so my spouse’s laptop stopped talking to the monitor, and my bluetooth mouse no longer seems to work on bluetooth mode (it also has a dongle). Technology and I do not always get along, and I guess we’re just in one of those phases.
Also much less stressed in general than I was for the last week.
I very much almost said that now there’s nothing to stop me, and I can hopefully get a little bit of creative work done every day, and maybe I can still get all my goals for the month done. BUT that feels a little risky, so instead we shall be cautiously optimistic.
I talked to my original writing group, The Spork Room, yesterday, and I’m going to put together some sort of accountability system. When TSR was young, in the late aughts, we all shared snippets of our stories all the time, and it was a great creative environment because people were always writing. But we were all young, some people still in high school, and now we’re old and have jobs and kids and other distractions that make the constant creativity of young people harder to maintain.
But I would like something like the old days, where we post snippets and it feels like we’re writing together as a community again, and others also expressed interest, so we’ll see how that goes.
We are either in the last week of the critique marathon, or I’ve messed up and there’s a whole ‘nother month. One of the critique marathons goes 12 weeks, and it probably is the summer one. I’ll know Monday if/when Week 9 gets posted on the forums. If we’ve got another month on the critique marathon, then I’ll need to push back the start of the World’s Edge revision planning as well.
That’s a problem for next week, though, and we will adapt as necessary.
Hope your week is ending on a high note, squider!
