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dragonlady7Oh before I say anything of substance I just want to point out that-- so my new phone's camera has a slow-mo thing built in and I have been just abusing it willy-nilly because why not, and I had no idea until this moment that the result of a slow-mo video is creepy as fuck audio, so I apologize to anyone who's been watching my Instagram stories and has had to deal with that.
(I knew it slowed the audio down but the first couple of videos I took that way were of musical instruments so it sounded cool-crazy; today's had people talking in the background and it sounds like weird fuckin demons or something.)
Went out for a Date Nite with my fella (i don't know why i call him that, i suspect it's not nearly as cute as i think it is, and for the record no i don't call him that IRL) and it was fun, we got sushi, I wore a floor-length dress, all was great, except my poor guy got a nosebleed abruptly in the middle of the main course, and had to dash to the restroom and try to stop the tide. The only slightly amusing part of this is that I had earlier discovered that I can now append gifs to my text messages? this is a new Android OS thing? and so I sent him, of course, as one does, this gif:
He was.... Well. I'm a treasure, OK.
Anyway, though, the reason I titled this post "progress" is that the posting chapter sections of the novel in progress has worked; I had to cut almost 5k words and over 2 weeks of progress, but the knowledge that I have to keep going so I have something to post bolstered me, and helped get me back on track, so hurrah! I've only added back in a few hundred words, I think, but -- oh I checked and it's over 2k, not too shabby!-- but it really worked to un-derail me; I boiled down the cut 5k words into a parenthetical flashback and it works way better that way without losing anything really. My problem is that i keep spending too long dwelling on stuff that's fascinating but not in any way important to the plot, and I need to be better about making every scene/facet/major digression I include be at least dual-purpose, serving both the color/worldbuilding AND a plot beat at the least.
I have had very little opportunity to expound on the male protagonist's reluctant admiration of the female protagonist's physical stature. She's not tall but she's really solid and when she first meets him she picks him up and carries him and he finds out right then and there that despite never really having considered it before, he has an absolute Thing about that, and by this point in the story he's resigned to having to work with her and extremely irritated that there's a part of him that keeps looking at her Stronk Arms and thinking she could pick me up right now while he's in the middle of being a competent clever professional, and he's like, super mad about it, but it's all got to be a minor background note to the plot, and all I really want is to write the eventual scene where she pins him to a wall and ravishes him, but that's not in the plot-cards for quite a while and in fact may never happen just like that, but it's really all I want to write, so.
(She's like, huh he keeps looking at me and frowning, specifically at my arms, I bet he doesn't like my tattoos, what a jerk, oh well he's way too Competent and Clever a Professional for the likes of me anyway, I'd better just keep lifting heavy things for him so he doesn't have to interrupt his work. oh weird he just got a nosebleed while staring at me, i wonder what that's about.)
(side note I just had to explain the anime nosebleed trope to Dude and that involved Googling it myself. add gif: [the more you know star]. wait here it is
I'm just on a TEAR with these, you guys.)
I guess I'll actually build that filter now. The way it will work, OK-- I can't build a subscription filter for you. What I can do is, I'll put the posts about the novel under a privacy lock that includes only people who've asked to be included. In order to see the posts, though, you don't actually have to be subscribed to me. I do, however, have to grant you access. This works because I figure if I have anything really personal to say, I'll put it under a separate privacy lock that's just for people I, like, know, right? So, just to put that out there-- it's super fine by me if you don't subscribe to me but want access. Or like, if you unsubscribe later, or whatever. I'll come back to your options on this one though, in a minute.
So: FIRSTLY, I post the chapter updates under this privacy filter, so you must be logged-in and have been granted access by me (and let me know to be on the filter because I have to manually add you to it, that's just kinda how they work) in order to see it.
SECONDLY, I tag the chapter updates with the designated tag for the project. (In this case, "The Solarpunk Mammoths Novel.")
SO, even if you don't care to subscribe to me, you can, I dunno, leave yourself a note or something, and go click on that tag every week or so, and it'll load up all the chapter updates, and you can scroll back to them. Or like. Whenever!
(Or, if you do subscribe to me, but it's such a firehose of content that you lose track of the chapters. Or, you're just not in A Place to read the novel as it's being posted, but want the option later. Or whatever.)
So it's like, a two-fold thing, there, that I have to grant you access and put you on the filter, and then you have to find the entries and read them, unless you don't mind all the rest of my shit too in which case no you really don't have to do anything except tell me you want in, which many of you have done, and I thank you for that.
And I know it's possible to use the Subscription Filters function on DW, I've blogged about it before, and you could set it up to show you only those posts of mine-- I wrote about it kind of the other way, so like you could block one particular tag of a friend's that had entries you didn't ever want to see (say, episode recaps of something you don't watch, or are planning to watch and don't want spoilers, etc)-- it's kind of like Tumblr's blacklist function only a whole lot not, but similar idea. So you could totally make a filter so you only see my posts about the solarpunk novel. I just don't think there's anyone who's going to be in that situation, so I'm not going to devote any more time to explaining how you'd do it.
(I knew it slowed the audio down but the first couple of videos I took that way were of musical instruments so it sounded cool-crazy; today's had people talking in the background and it sounds like weird fuckin demons or something.)
Went out for a Date Nite with my fella (i don't know why i call him that, i suspect it's not nearly as cute as i think it is, and for the record no i don't call him that IRL) and it was fun, we got sushi, I wore a floor-length dress, all was great, except my poor guy got a nosebleed abruptly in the middle of the main course, and had to dash to the restroom and try to stop the tide. The only slightly amusing part of this is that I had earlier discovered that I can now append gifs to my text messages? this is a new Android OS thing? and so I sent him, of course, as one does, this gif:
He was.... Well. I'm a treasure, OK.
Anyway, though, the reason I titled this post "progress" is that the posting chapter sections of the novel in progress has worked; I had to cut almost 5k words and over 2 weeks of progress, but the knowledge that I have to keep going so I have something to post bolstered me, and helped get me back on track, so hurrah! I've only added back in a few hundred words, I think, but -- oh I checked and it's over 2k, not too shabby!-- but it really worked to un-derail me; I boiled down the cut 5k words into a parenthetical flashback and it works way better that way without losing anything really. My problem is that i keep spending too long dwelling on stuff that's fascinating but not in any way important to the plot, and I need to be better about making every scene/facet/major digression I include be at least dual-purpose, serving both the color/worldbuilding AND a plot beat at the least.
I have had very little opportunity to expound on the male protagonist's reluctant admiration of the female protagonist's physical stature. She's not tall but she's really solid and when she first meets him she picks him up and carries him and he finds out right then and there that despite never really having considered it before, he has an absolute Thing about that, and by this point in the story he's resigned to having to work with her and extremely irritated that there's a part of him that keeps looking at her Stronk Arms and thinking she could pick me up right now while he's in the middle of being a competent clever professional, and he's like, super mad about it, but it's all got to be a minor background note to the plot, and all I really want is to write the eventual scene where she pins him to a wall and ravishes him, but that's not in the plot-cards for quite a while and in fact may never happen just like that, but it's really all I want to write, so.
(She's like, huh he keeps looking at me and frowning, specifically at my arms, I bet he doesn't like my tattoos, what a jerk, oh well he's way too Competent and Clever a Professional for the likes of me anyway, I'd better just keep lifting heavy things for him so he doesn't have to interrupt his work. oh weird he just got a nosebleed while staring at me, i wonder what that's about.)
(side note I just had to explain the anime nosebleed trope to Dude and that involved Googling it myself. add gif: [the more you know star]. wait here it is
I'm just on a TEAR with these, you guys.)I guess I'll actually build that filter now. The way it will work, OK-- I can't build a subscription filter for you. What I can do is, I'll put the posts about the novel under a privacy lock that includes only people who've asked to be included. In order to see the posts, though, you don't actually have to be subscribed to me. I do, however, have to grant you access. This works because I figure if I have anything really personal to say, I'll put it under a separate privacy lock that's just for people I, like, know, right? So, just to put that out there-- it's super fine by me if you don't subscribe to me but want access. Or like, if you unsubscribe later, or whatever. I'll come back to your options on this one though, in a minute.
So: FIRSTLY, I post the chapter updates under this privacy filter, so you must be logged-in and have been granted access by me (and let me know to be on the filter because I have to manually add you to it, that's just kinda how they work) in order to see it.
SECONDLY, I tag the chapter updates with the designated tag for the project. (In this case, "The Solarpunk Mammoths Novel.")
SO, even if you don't care to subscribe to me, you can, I dunno, leave yourself a note or something, and go click on that tag every week or so, and it'll load up all the chapter updates, and you can scroll back to them. Or like. Whenever!
(Or, if you do subscribe to me, but it's such a firehose of content that you lose track of the chapters. Or, you're just not in A Place to read the novel as it's being posted, but want the option later. Or whatever.)
So it's like, a two-fold thing, there, that I have to grant you access and put you on the filter, and then you have to find the entries and read them, unless you don't mind all the rest of my shit too in which case no you really don't have to do anything except tell me you want in, which many of you have done, and I thank you for that.
And I know it's possible to use the Subscription Filters function on DW, I've blogged about it before, and you could set it up to show you only those posts of mine-- I wrote about it kind of the other way, so like you could block one particular tag of a friend's that had entries you didn't ever want to see (say, episode recaps of something you don't watch, or are planning to watch and don't want spoilers, etc)-- it's kind of like Tumblr's blacklist function only a whole lot not, but similar idea. So you could totally make a filter so you only see my posts about the solarpunk novel. I just don't think there's anyone who's going to be in that situation, so I'm not going to devote any more time to explaining how you'd do it.
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Date: 2019-01-09 11:32 am (UTC)I see everything that gets posted that I have access to—that's the thing I love about DW—so I don't think you need to worry about subscriptions.