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Unpleasant but but not strictly nightmares continue to bother me when I try to sleep - This time it was a good old fashioned "awake while sleeping" dream, an absolute classic of a most unfortunate sort. I think I've had that one half a dozen times or so, at least. The sad part is I'm inevitably tired in those dreams, and then wake up in truth pretty much the same way, psychologically speaking, it really feels like I haven't much rested.
My least favorite iteration of that dream is the one where I'm in a dark room, unable to move, watching a doorway that leads out somewhere that is almost, but not quite my home.
Happily, it was just a regular "oh no, I'm late to work and tired" version of the dream, which is far more preferable.
I did end up pallet swapping the page for my short stories collection, so it's now mostly purple instead of mostly green. It actually looks pretty good, though I'm thinking about holding off on posting it until I finish some new content for it.
On my long, long list of "things I plan to do", custom decorations and assets for my website are floating around there, somewhere. It's not even that they're hard - I keep drawing bug people and pose practices instead.
I did make some headway on finishing up that fan-essay on Jack and Vlad. Really, Auto-reader Andy and I are a pretty good team, it's just a matter of finding the time, taking the time, and doing it.
Thinking of progress, the two little short stories I said I would finish Saturday are done, albeit in very rough form. That actually makes three short stories I've completed this year for the Danny Phantom fandom...none of which are posted. I really don't like drafting or editing more than one thing at a time, and one of the short stories in particular is going to need a lot of revision, which I confess I'm not looking forward to, either. All that writing advice is like "it's fine, write badly!" And that's great, right until you pick up your own work and the only thing going through your head is "oh no, what do I do? I can't post this. It's written so badly."
What's that one really famous quote? "The first draft of everything is shit"? Yeah, I think it.
It's a phrase I try to keep in mind.
My least favorite iteration of that dream is the one where I'm in a dark room, unable to move, watching a doorway that leads out somewhere that is almost, but not quite my home.
Happily, it was just a regular "oh no, I'm late to work and tired" version of the dream, which is far more preferable.
I did end up pallet swapping the page for my short stories collection, so it's now mostly purple instead of mostly green. It actually looks pretty good, though I'm thinking about holding off on posting it until I finish some new content for it.
On my long, long list of "things I plan to do", custom decorations and assets for my website are floating around there, somewhere. It's not even that they're hard - I keep drawing bug people and pose practices instead.
I did make some headway on finishing up that fan-essay on Jack and Vlad. Really, Auto-reader Andy and I are a pretty good team, it's just a matter of finding the time, taking the time, and doing it.
Thinking of progress, the two little short stories I said I would finish Saturday are done, albeit in very rough form. That actually makes three short stories I've completed this year for the Danny Phantom fandom...none of which are posted. I really don't like drafting or editing more than one thing at a time, and one of the short stories in particular is going to need a lot of revision, which I confess I'm not looking forward to, either. All that writing advice is like "it's fine, write badly!" And that's great, right until you pick up your own work and the only thing going through your head is "oh no, what do I do? I can't post this. It's written so badly."
What's that one really famous quote? "The first draft of everything is shit"? Yeah, I think it.
It's a phrase I try to keep in mind.
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