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Apr. 23rd, 2022 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenixfallsWriting has just not been happening for me the past few years. Between pandemic, Jack, drastic shifts in my work life, health issues, and probably more things I'm forgetting, there just has not been any space in my brain for it.
But I'm trying to make space for it again now. I briefly attempted to join Write Every Day in March, with the extraordinarily modest goal of just writing an alibi sentence every day.
Under the assumption that some days (hopefully more as time passed and I got back into the swing of things!) I would successfully write more than one sentence, I also signed up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kinkluckydip , since it was only a 300 word minimum and I was guaranteed to be writing smut, which is very much my comfort zone for fic.
Write Every Day did not go terribly well. In retrospect, in my entire life, the only thing I have ever trained myself to do everyday that is not physically required (eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom) is brush my teeth. I have never even successfully added face washing to that one daily task! I'm just not a daily habit kind of person, apparently.
But! The pressure of a deadline did motivate me to write a complete fic for the first time 16 months! At least I know deadlines usually work, even if ridiculously low pressure daily goals don't.
I matched withshetiger on three different fandoms & relationships. When I got the assignment and thought that writing every day was going to work out for me, I was planning on writing a fic for each! I did in fact start three different fics. But as the deadline approached it became clear that I needed to narrow my focus and be realistic about which of my fic starts was going to be easiest to finish. So I ended up producing:
Title: The Right Combinations
Author: [Unknown site tag]phoenixfalls
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Relationship: Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer Jareau
Word Count: 921
Rating: Explicit
Tags: Sparring, Cunnilingus
Summary:
“That means you’re the overall victor today. Are you ready for your prize?”
Link: On AO3
I always low-key shipped Hotch & JJ (in fic, not in canon) and I had a lot of fun writing this. Also researching grappling techniques!
My request ended up going out as a pinch-hit, and providing more evidence of how well our tastes align, shetiger picked me up and wrote me a delightful Criminal Minds fic as well, featuring my high-key Criminal Minds ship of Hotch/Morgan: Circle of Light.
So yay, fic!
I'm now trying to set a modest weekly writing goal of simply opening my laptop and a Word document every Saturday afternoon. I was initially thinking of carving out 1pm - 3pm every Saturday afternoon and making myself try to write for those two hours, but my therapist suggested I not force myself to sit there frustrated, so literally the only goal is to open up the document and turn my brain in that direction for as long as I am enjoying it.
We'll see how it goes?
But I'm trying to make space for it again now. I briefly attempted to join Write Every Day in March, with the extraordinarily modest goal of just writing an alibi sentence every day.
Under the assumption that some days (hopefully more as time passed and I got back into the swing of things!) I would successfully write more than one sentence, I also signed up for
kinkluckydip , since it was only a 300 word minimum and I was guaranteed to be writing smut, which is very much my comfort zone for fic.Write Every Day did not go terribly well. In retrospect, in my entire life, the only thing I have ever trained myself to do everyday that is not physically required (eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom) is brush my teeth. I have never even successfully added face washing to that one daily task! I'm just not a daily habit kind of person, apparently.
But! The pressure of a deadline did motivate me to write a complete fic for the first time 16 months! At least I know deadlines usually work, even if ridiculously low pressure daily goals don't.
I matched with
shetiger on three different fandoms & relationships. When I got the assignment and thought that writing every day was going to work out for me, I was planning on writing a fic for each! I did in fact start three different fics. But as the deadline approached it became clear that I needed to narrow my focus and be realistic about which of my fic starts was going to be easiest to finish. So I ended up producing:Title: The Right Combinations
Author: [Unknown site tag]phoenixfalls
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Relationship: Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer Jareau
Word Count: 921
Rating: Explicit
Tags: Sparring, Cunnilingus
Summary:
“That means you’re the overall victor today. Are you ready for your prize?”
Link: On AO3
I always low-key shipped Hotch & JJ (in fic, not in canon) and I had a lot of fun writing this. Also researching grappling techniques!
My request ended up going out as a pinch-hit, and providing more evidence of how well our tastes align, shetiger picked me up and wrote me a delightful Criminal Minds fic as well, featuring my high-key Criminal Minds ship of Hotch/Morgan: Circle of Light.
So yay, fic!
I'm now trying to set a modest weekly writing goal of simply opening my laptop and a Word document every Saturday afternoon. I was initially thinking of carving out 1pm - 3pm every Saturday afternoon and making myself try to write for those two hours, but my therapist suggested I not force myself to sit there frustrated, so literally the only goal is to open up the document and turn my brain in that direction for as long as I am enjoying it.
We'll see how it goes?
