Be A Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang

A brief update today because my brain is sluggish.

I managed to do some writing for the first time in a month. It's nothing for submission or anything, just a little story for a character I roleplay with my partner, but I think that was good for me. It scratches the same sort of itch that writing fanfic does, and I find that if I keep up doing these kinds of stories alongside the stuff I write for submission, I'm a much happier person.

Tomorrow should be Going Into The World and I'm a little nervous for it. It'll be the most significant amount of walking I'll have done since breaking my toes, so yeah. Hopefully it won't be too bad.

'm starting this post later than I meant to, but hey I started it and that's what matters!

Today I was supposed to go out with a friend who's in town, but we both slept poorly, so we're doing that on Thursday. I'm excited to see her since the last time I did, we were in Portland for a con in November. That was actually the first time we ever talked, but we got on pretty well.

Making friends is so weird sometimes.

Slept in later than I intended but I got up before 11, which I'm calling a victory. My goal is to always be up before 10 but my body will just refuse to do that sometimes. Like, I'll go to bed at 10:30pm and I won't get up for another fourteen hours. There is no rhyme or reason for these Sleep Incidents, but it is what it is. I'm working on trying to be more gentle with myself about them and have plans for days where I do that instead of just feeling low and upset by it.

I haven't managed to start doing the art thing, but I pulled out one of my notebooks that are good for fountain pens and started writing in it. I'm going to see if I can keep up doing some kind of writing in this one until I finish it, but we'll see. I have no special plans for the notebook, just going to let it be a catch-all with to do lists, goals, doodles, rambles, ect and see what happens. I'm taking it with me when I head out next Friday, so maybe it'll be a little bit of a travel journal too. Who knows.

I need to do some reading tonight before I go to bed. I do a brief newsletter on Tuesdays where I recommend two short stories I've read recently and I'm running low on options. I try and have a backlog of stories for weeks that I've not read as much and I'm down to less than five. Hopefully this week I'll run across some very good stuff.

Speaking of reading, so I'm officially helping out M with the anthology they're making. [RECORDED]. It's gonna be so much fun and I'm really looking forward to slushing for the first time. If you wan to submit some found footage horror, we're going to be open from the 15th through the end of June.