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It's sunny and warm today, in a way that makes me think we may be in for some more rain soon as the weather continues to wane from late summer to early fall.
There's six chapters left of a fanfic I was doing a chapter-by-chapter comment-a-thon on. I got my fool self distracted, and those last handful of chapters just haven't been done. I can never tell what the author might think, but I feel pretty bad about letting myself get distracted like that.
As to what I was distracted with - job, art, and writing, mostly. There's the sketchbook webpage for my art - now basically done, I've just been putting off the obnoxious part of gathering my art and loading it in. Then there's a new sketch section for my writing (I ended up liking that webpage for my original works, so I made one for my fandom stuff, too.) I've also finally managed to finish an essay on Jack and Vlad that was supposed to be a short and sweet kind of thing, but finished at around 2700 words, and would have been bigger, had I not gotten kind of sick of writing it and gone ahead and rounded it off.
That still needs a final read-through using autoreader Andy (I like to give mt text-to-speech software fun names), which I use for final drafting and cleanup, but after that, should be ready to go.
And of course, the next chapter of Where You Belong, the latest chapter of which is still nearly done and has been for several days. I may knuckle down and use the rest of my day to finish that off, honestly. I swear I get as frustrated with my own tendency to delay and hop around as anyone.
I've also been working on a new ramble for my diary, because it's been too long, if I'm being frank.
And tomorrow is the start of a six day work week, too. Bleh.
I keep telling myself I'll find the time to sign up for continuing education stuff, and if I can ever work past the misery I know stacking that on top of a full time job will cause, that will definitely slow down my hobby-stuff even more.
I've picked up From Here to Eternity again, and I'm still very engaged. The author really seems to strive to capture the feel of that particular place and time, the good, the bad, and all. He also balances right on the edge of repeating words and phrases for effective emphasis versus just being obnoxious. It kind of shows the time and the era he was writing in, I think, postmodernism was in at the time, so you would see a lot of unusual and rather daring stylistic choices in art and writing. I feel like the way he tends to use adverbs is similar - He'll say stuff like "strikingly daringly" or "painfully softly slowly" pretty often, stringing them together in a way that's both unconventional and rather deliberate-looking, considering he's also demonstrated himself quite capable of writing normal enough prose in the very same book.
So much to do, and so little time to do it.
Sorry about missing the last couple of days.
There's six chapters left of a fanfic I was doing a chapter-by-chapter comment-a-thon on. I got my fool self distracted, and those last handful of chapters just haven't been done. I can never tell what the author might think, but I feel pretty bad about letting myself get distracted like that.
As to what I was distracted with - job, art, and writing, mostly. There's the sketchbook webpage for my art - now basically done, I've just been putting off the obnoxious part of gathering my art and loading it in. Then there's a new sketch section for my writing (I ended up liking that webpage for my original works, so I made one for my fandom stuff, too.) I've also finally managed to finish an essay on Jack and Vlad that was supposed to be a short and sweet kind of thing, but finished at around 2700 words, and would have been bigger, had I not gotten kind of sick of writing it and gone ahead and rounded it off.
That still needs a final read-through using autoreader Andy (I like to give mt text-to-speech software fun names), which I use for final drafting and cleanup, but after that, should be ready to go.
And of course, the next chapter of Where You Belong, the latest chapter of which is still nearly done and has been for several days. I may knuckle down and use the rest of my day to finish that off, honestly. I swear I get as frustrated with my own tendency to delay and hop around as anyone.
I've also been working on a new ramble for my diary, because it's been too long, if I'm being frank.
And tomorrow is the start of a six day work week, too. Bleh.
I keep telling myself I'll find the time to sign up for continuing education stuff, and if I can ever work past the misery I know stacking that on top of a full time job will cause, that will definitely slow down my hobby-stuff even more.
I've picked up From Here to Eternity again, and I'm still very engaged. The author really seems to strive to capture the feel of that particular place and time, the good, the bad, and all. He also balances right on the edge of repeating words and phrases for effective emphasis versus just being obnoxious. It kind of shows the time and the era he was writing in, I think, postmodernism was in at the time, so you would see a lot of unusual and rather daring stylistic choices in art and writing. I feel like the way he tends to use adverbs is similar - He'll say stuff like "strikingly daringly" or "painfully softly slowly" pretty often, stringing them together in a way that's both unconventional and rather deliberate-looking, considering he's also demonstrated himself quite capable of writing normal enough prose in the very same book.
So much to do, and so little time to do it.
Sorry about missing the last couple of days.
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I wouldn't worry about it. Said author has something of a habit for getting their works aside for weeks, months, or years at a time to pursue other hobbies, after all. :) Comments are always appreciated no matter when they come.
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!!!!!!!!! Drak0nis!
While I'm at it, congrats on switching to linux - Windows killed my own laptop years ago with one of its stupid bloatware updates, and I switched to Ubuntu out of revenge immediately after. Despite having been dumb enough to not bother checking if linux was fully compatible with my hardware (turns out some wifi drivers are written to be microsoft only, and need some kind of emulation/other voodoo to work right on other OSes, who knew? Not me.), I've never looked back.
Getting distracted partway through a task is a life-long issue with me, so I just tend to get annoyed at myself when I do it, is all, especially since I really do like your work. 31 was rad!
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I am really enjoying Mint and still don't know why it took me this long to switch over. Afraid my stuff wouldn't work I guess, but Steam Deck existed has inspired great advances in compatibility measures for games, and extremely creative nerds have found ways to get everything else I use running via WINE. So I've experienced no losses thankfully.