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First of all, on the gaming creation situation; I've uploaded the basics of STO 3.0 & 4.0 to a carrd. And right now I'm trying to write a ver 5.0 where instead of leveling up a character you're building a whole town. Potentially in the trees? I don't know, I have a lot of ideas. It's even gonna have NPCs and everything, because I know no self-control and have no chill. (I'll drop something eventually for v5.0 but I haven't gotten far yet.)

[community profile] tinyfandomflash is also moving along! It's on challenge 3 right now, which just seems wild to me. And I am still entirely unfamiliar with all fandoms that have been posted so far, which is even wilder, LOL. (I need to get around to making that round-up post.)

Lately, I've been going on "join a lot of writing-dedicated discord servers" sprees, but I still haven't entirely found what I'm seeking for so I've been toying around with setting up one of my own. Not gonna lie, have done that before, didn't pan out, deleted them, and pretended it never happened. But like, I'm fine if that's what I do with this one as well?

I legit love organizing and sorting things, and putting together a discord server, getting everything just right, is genuinely a great time. I'm not very good at, like, actually keeping it alive, but I assume that's what other people are for *sweat*.

What I actually want, which is hard to find trawling through disboard is what I wrote on the welcome channel in my shiny new server "...digging deep into writing; world-building, characterization, how to do research (help), editing, etc. and even deeper into publishing (particularly self-publishing). It's all about those nitty-gritty details that make you realize that becoming a better writer is basically like building a functional town. Everything has gotta be just right, and it'll be a lot easier to get away with potholes if the whole thing is mostly the same level."

But a lot of servers don't dig that deep, or conversations get derailed, or there are so many conversations happening one after another and things get buried too quickly to read much less participate in. Sigh.

I guess if anyone wants to peek into the server, toss me a line? (Maybe I should start spamming [community profile] originalfiction but honestly it seems dead? Possibly set up a new DW comm dedicated to writing? But like. Spoons.)

Also, I recently made the decision that I *won't* be monetizing THE GEEK TRAP, my current writing project. That was the plan, but honestly this project has been a coping method for my mental health from start to finish and I kind of can't stomach monetizing it right now. Like, I might have to someday but I still have disability benefits so *not today*.

So it'll be going up on Wattpad, Tapas and Scribble Hub soon (I'm at 70k of 78k words, so...) and then when it's finished posting at those places I might toss it onto AO3 for posterity.

Also in other news, the scrolling wheel on my computer mouse has begun to malfunction the last few days which is. So frustrating. Like it's not all the time, it's still usable, but it's enough to bother me. I've changed the battery, but no dice. I even tossed it up on my wishlist because I got so annoyed, LOL.

In happier news, I've got a package inbound that got caught by customs and I don't know what it is, LMAO. It either has to be books from a Kickstarter I backed or a book I bought from ViaLactea like 2 years ago. Either would be great! So I am keeping my eyes on my mailbox.

(paws at the door)

Date: 2023-08-07 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] bushwah
Let me in?

I don't do a tremendous amount of non-fannish writing these days, and I know nothing about publishing, but I love editing and cheerleading and thematic analysis. If there's words in your server, I will have opinions on them.

Date: 2023-08-08 01:32 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
it would be nice to see an active writers group

Date: 2023-08-10 03:42 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Oh cool, good luck with it. Let me think about it. It sounds like it could be helpful (but points to today's post I'm up to my eyeballs in publisher edits this month)

Date: 2023-09-09 08:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
thanks. the novel is back with the publisher so all is well

Date: 2023-08-08 06:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mistressofmuses
I've had a rough time with finding writing discord servers. (I suspect the issue is actually Me and interacting with discord as a whole.) I get overwhelmed when things move too fast, and so I wind up just ignoring the app for weeks at a time, which certainly doesn't help with "feeling overwhelmed by what's going on", lol.

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