Snowflake Challenge Days 11-13

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I'm very tired again, generally, due to the ME/CFS as ever, and partly some rl stuff, but let's try and not fall too much further behind (still haven't done Day 3!) Forgive me if I'm flaking on comments - I caught up a bit, but then it's still quite busy and I fall away again.



Day 12

In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

As I said, I am really tired, so the last thing I am up for is creating a challenge, and I think that's fair enough. I often do writing memes, I sign up for exchanges, I created comms which are/include challenges - tardis_library, who_allsorts, tic_tac_woe, post monthly prompts to b7friday, and run an annual ficathon at who_guestfest (well, even if shivver actually ran it last time). I also have a ridiculous ongoing 500 Prompts thing that I decided to do back in something like 2013 and am still working away on. (I didn't create that one, but I did steal it, adapt it, and am still doing it.)

I don't think I need to create another when I'm too tired just for this challenge.

But if other people are not tired, then feel free to rec something for tardis_library or sign up for the current seasonal challenge there. Ask for an apocalyptic mini-bingo card at tic_tac_woe! Or claim a table at who_allsorts, create something for this fortnight's prompt at b7friday. Or the other way around, well, leave me a prompt on the 500 Prompts post! (I mean, there is no guarantee a ficlet will result & if it does, it might turn up in 2 days or 6 years, but I am still working on them.)

Make your own prompt challenge by generating yourself things via the Genremixer. Or for writing memes, try the poetry meme or the AU Meme, or just for fun, the 15 Characters Meme.


Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I put my fannish/fic goals on my writing meme entry, so that will do!


Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Which can fairly be summed up as "it seemed a good idea at the time" or "there was this prompt" or "my flist told me to do it" or even more inspiring, "my flist told me I couldn't do it."

More literally, I still tend to write the first draft longhand, as I find it helps. I'm trying at the moment to do this less for shorter pieces, especially meme things, as I'm finding it more of a struggle for some reason and then I don't write at all. But for long things, I can't do the detailed plan/structure thing, so writing it out in that format first and then completely rewriting it as you type with notes etc. works out instead without switching off my creativity in the way that planning often does.

Icons not for challenges tend to be fairly simple as a thing i can still do when quiet - so I make screencaps and then tweak them (crop, resize, lighten via layers, sharpen via unsharp mask etc. and then play around with them till I'm happy or just frustrated).

But for fannish things, mainly, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Or somebody in some way asked me to do it. Or asked me not to do it but in a way that sounded like they thought I should...

(corvidology was saying their flist used to be the "Fiends List" over on LJ. In the best possible way, I know what they mean... <3)

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