poppyseed

Wow, I had to scroll back through three full pages of my reading page before I got to this post because I hadn't been on Dreamwidth much since before xmas and so many people made wonderful end of year posts about reading and podficing and writing and life! Just another one of many things I must thank you for: getting me back on dreamwidth. I feel like I'm always following you into new fandom spaces, and finding riches wherever you lead.

It is also astonishing to me that a low writing year for you is a high, almost pie-in-the-sky high, writing year for me. I guess I do write a lot of stuff that's not prose and isn't reflected in my Ao3 stats? But still. I think often about how MUCH writing you and Sharpa and Cait do, and also so many other fic authors, and how I think many published authors would be shocked by the word counts y'all put up.

Even though I am subscribed, so I did get emails when all of these fics went up, it was interesting to look over them and see which ones I remembered really vividly and which ones I wouldn't have specifically clocked as 2022 fics. And to note I didn't read all of them yet! Have to save a few for cold recording, you know.

I laughed over this line in your wrap up: I'm in another creative growth period where I know what's not working in my writing but not always how to fix it, which is evil. ugh what an insight. I look forward to hearing your thought process as you learn how to solve some of these story problems in the coming year!

I feel like I'm in a creative growth period too, where I'm getting looser with my writing, more willing to try something when I'm not sure of the outcome. I actually think... I want to start more WIPs and not worry about abandoning them. I've always been so careful about what I start because I care so much about follow through. But in drawing I sketch, I doodle. I think I should do that in writing too? I currently have only 2 abandoned fic WIPs in my whole writing history. What a low number! I should do something about that. Maybe I will join your upcoming writing salon and only ever write the first few paragraphs of things and never finish them, and see what that teaches me.