Another journal

It’s difficult, to get back into the specific habit of blogging. I mean I do it – I “microblog” on Tumblr and I’m so far sticking well to my goal of weekly updates at Comradery and Patreon. Even my newsletter is kind of bloggy. But beyond that, it was a habit I kind of lost when I left LiveJournal, to a degree. My problem, I think partly, is I always want to cite lots of sources or have a ~reason~ for a post. Which is silly! I like posts that are just little life updates or complaints or stories or whatever whatever. And not just from others, I mean I also like stumbling across the ones I’ve written myself.

Anyway right now I’m in the middle of Flash Fiction February, as held by Storytelling Collective, I guess this is the fourth year I’ve really gone for it, though I’d picked at it previously. In 2022 I got an AlphaSmart and it helped me re-focus how I was going about things. Here’s a little video from then of how it works.

This year though, I’m typing on the computer, specifically in Ellipsus, because they have a very sexy little snippet you can do now and that’s fun. The always wonderful Zilla Novikov (who wrote Query, which you should read) does a “post the first line in your WIP” on Tumblr that I enjoy and don’t partake in enough, and I figured the snippets would be a good way to do that.

In 2023 I made a spreadsheet (of course I did) to track the prompts, word count and genre of what I was writing and to better note what should go in the collection I put together for each year (find them over on Itch, they’ve illustrations and everything). It’s a nice way to see, with these little bits of story that are like working in a sketchbook, what I keep returning too. Here’s a snapshot of where I am for this month, which is generated from daily entries. If the genre-description-type thing doesn’t make sense to you that’s fine, I mean this is more for me.

It is difficult to balance working in a lot of media. While I’m writing I’m also (supposed to be) shooting some stickers to finally get them in the shop, working on some sculptures, finishing a quilt, mending my coat, etc etc etc. But that’s life! I dunno! It’s how its always been. Finding a balance, sticking to the to-do lists that keep me on track without putting me in a rut, building new habits or rebuilding old ones.

Like blog posts without a point, really. Other than saying “I’m here! I’m here please!” Which are good posts to have and to see and to make.