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May. 16th, 2024 10:19 pm1. People who hate Bridgerton are watching S3 (they've seen S1-2 and more than once) and are tweeting about how much they hate it. Why? Why do this to themselves? And why subject the rest of us to it? If you hate it? Don't watch it. (I don't like Ripley, Baby Reindeer, or half a dozen sitcoms and reality shows - so I do not watch them. And I gave up on YellowFace because I didn't like it.)
I've never understood this. People used to do it with Buffy and Angel too, also with soaps, American Idol, and various reality shows. They'd hate watch and post about it. Why?
I don't hate watch or hate read. If I "hate" something (or don't enjoy it) - I don't watch it. Or read it. I stop. If there's nothing interesting or intriguing - it's done. There's enough stories out there - that I do not need to waste my time hate-watching or hate-reading things.
Why do people do this to themselves? Worse? Post on it and subject everyone else to it? Is it boredom?
I've decided boredom is toxic to the human condition. It brings out the worst in everyone. And it's made worse by no one willing to admit they are bored. It's as if there is a stigma against admitting it. Instead everyone goes on social media and whines about other things.
2. I was discussing with mother my difficulty in focusing in regards to a story or artwork. My plots tend to have errant subplots, and multiple side characters that go off and do their things. Also I can see everyone's point of view and want to write it.
Mother: you've always had an over-active or highly active mind. It has a lot going on.
Might be why I struggle with sleeping. I've tried meditation but too much of it - seems to result in brain fog.
We're currently trying to figure out why I keep falling asleep at roughly 10 am each day. I nod off and struggle to keep my eyes open for about two hours. (And I've had a caffeniated beverage, eaten nuts, a poached egg and greens...). Mother thinks it might be my medication. I don't know. Doesn't appear to be - it's more than four hours after I took it.
3. Came up with an idea - to write mini-synopsis or explanatory blurbs of each of the stories I'm working on. That way I'll know which one to focus on - the one with the clearest synopsis, summary statement.
I'm also, as an exercise of sorts, seeing if I can cut a novel that is 890 pages down to 490. I got it to 690 so far. And if I can ruthlessly revise it, but keep the principle story intact.
At any rate - to date: I've written four mini-synopses. Went back to the first one - which is the story I'm revising. This idea was pitched by Book Twitter - where they suggested that you might want to work on writing brief synopsis or summary statements of your work while you were revising or writing it, because it might help you better understand what it is about, what you are going for, and focus it better or make it gel better. Can't quite remember how they worded it, sorry.
I have about two more to go, no wait, three more. Sigh. I don't lack in ideas. Just time and mental space to write them all down.
Anyhow I've started doing this - as a way to break myself out of my creative block/depression. I got shut down and I'm trying to free myself.
Last year I had all this creative momentum, then somewhere around July or August, I shut down.
I keep discarding ideas as impossible or I'm not good enough. Bad mojo.
So, I am hunting ways to kick that habit. To date - I discarded a web series about my nutty workplace (generalized of course), and a web comic fantasy (because I didn't think I could draw it). Also an embroidery of a sunflower against the sky on a pillow.
I've never understood this. People used to do it with Buffy and Angel too, also with soaps, American Idol, and various reality shows. They'd hate watch and post about it. Why?
I don't hate watch or hate read. If I "hate" something (or don't enjoy it) - I don't watch it. Or read it. I stop. If there's nothing interesting or intriguing - it's done. There's enough stories out there - that I do not need to waste my time hate-watching or hate-reading things.
Why do people do this to themselves? Worse? Post on it and subject everyone else to it? Is it boredom?
I've decided boredom is toxic to the human condition. It brings out the worst in everyone. And it's made worse by no one willing to admit they are bored. It's as if there is a stigma against admitting it. Instead everyone goes on social media and whines about other things.
2. I was discussing with mother my difficulty in focusing in regards to a story or artwork. My plots tend to have errant subplots, and multiple side characters that go off and do their things. Also I can see everyone's point of view and want to write it.
Mother: you've always had an over-active or highly active mind. It has a lot going on.
Might be why I struggle with sleeping. I've tried meditation but too much of it - seems to result in brain fog.
We're currently trying to figure out why I keep falling asleep at roughly 10 am each day. I nod off and struggle to keep my eyes open for about two hours. (And I've had a caffeniated beverage, eaten nuts, a poached egg and greens...). Mother thinks it might be my medication. I don't know. Doesn't appear to be - it's more than four hours after I took it.
3. Came up with an idea - to write mini-synopsis or explanatory blurbs of each of the stories I'm working on. That way I'll know which one to focus on - the one with the clearest synopsis, summary statement.
I'm also, as an exercise of sorts, seeing if I can cut a novel that is 890 pages down to 490. I got it to 690 so far. And if I can ruthlessly revise it, but keep the principle story intact.
At any rate - to date: I've written four mini-synopses. Went back to the first one - which is the story I'm revising. This idea was pitched by Book Twitter - where they suggested that you might want to work on writing brief synopsis or summary statements of your work while you were revising or writing it, because it might help you better understand what it is about, what you are going for, and focus it better or make it gel better. Can't quite remember how they worded it, sorry.
I have about two more to go, no wait, three more. Sigh. I don't lack in ideas. Just time and mental space to write them all down.
Anyhow I've started doing this - as a way to break myself out of my creative block/depression. I got shut down and I'm trying to free myself.
Last year I had all this creative momentum, then somewhere around July or August, I shut down.
I keep discarding ideas as impossible or I'm not good enough. Bad mojo.
So, I am hunting ways to kick that habit. To date - I discarded a web series about my nutty workplace (generalized of course), and a web comic fantasy (because I didn't think I could draw it). Also an embroidery of a sunflower against the sky on a pillow.