oh boy making another post. i am out of practice at this. or i guess like: dreamwidth gives each post a presence that you don't really get on tumblr. tumblr posts are ephemeral. they slide off the dash in minutes and it's impossible to find them afterwards and parts of them actually stop working after a year just b/c tumblr decided it wasn't important to keep the notes readily accessible. the new post thing is right on top of the dash in big bubbly buttons. dreamwidth meanwhile expects each post to stick around for a while and even accumulate attention and comments for like, months/years afterwards.
all the dreamwidth layouts by default have a big "(no subject)" subject line, if you don't put one in. like it's an email. tumblr is entirely happy to entirely ignore the subject line if you don't put one in; with dreamwidth i had to specifically hack the hidden subject line into my layout.
(also uh my layout isn't entirely finished, so things like comments and the archive page range from "slightly rough" to "completely illegible". i'll get around to it someday.)
ANYWAY that's not what i wanted to post about. what i wanted to post about was FRUSTRATION.
or uh, i've been working on hell game for a year now (okay, that's a lie, i've been working on hell game for like five years just in bits and pieces and generally in private) and it's reallyyyyy been sucking up my creative energy. which i guess is, uh, good, since i have been steadily (albeit kinda slowly) plowing through updates. but i haven't really been working on anything else, even though there are a bunch of fics i could be finishing. also adding to the problem is that i've been wanting to write something big and with a more involved plot than the pwps i usually write, and the process of sketching out an involved plot (a series of rejected involved plots, etc) has been using up what little extra energy i got. so that's not great.
but that's how it's going! nope i don't have a conclusion here; end of post.
all the dreamwidth layouts by default have a big "(no subject)" subject line, if you don't put one in. like it's an email. tumblr is entirely happy to entirely ignore the subject line if you don't put one in; with dreamwidth i had to specifically hack the hidden subject line into my layout.
(also uh my layout isn't entirely finished, so things like comments and the archive page range from "slightly rough" to "completely illegible". i'll get around to it someday.)
ANYWAY that's not what i wanted to post about. what i wanted to post about was FRUSTRATION.
or uh, i've been working on hell game for a year now (okay, that's a lie, i've been working on hell game for like five years just in bits and pieces and generally in private) and it's reallyyyyy been sucking up my creative energy. which i guess is, uh, good, since i have been steadily (albeit kinda slowly) plowing through updates. but i haven't really been working on anything else, even though there are a bunch of fics i could be finishing. also adding to the problem is that i've been wanting to write something big and with a more involved plot than the pwps i usually write, and the process of sketching out an involved plot (a series of rejected involved plots, etc) has been using up what little extra energy i got. so that's not great.
but that's how it's going! nope i don't have a conclusion here; end of post.
