Write Every Day - 14 August 02019
Aug. 14th, 2019 07:39 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 14 August 02019.
I don't really have anything super-inspiring to write about today. Among other things, it looks like I'm just going to have to sit tight and see if my recipient is one of the people that waits for a significant amount of time before commenting. It gives me a little bit of practice in the idea that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sonia put forth in a Sundown Healing Arts letter about how people respond to mistakes, which emphasises that context is important in determining how big a mistake something is (and whether it's even called a mistake, as opposed to a risk or a gamble), that people with more privilege get to make more mistakes without disastrous consequences, and that there are healthy and unhealthy ways of fixing and calling attention to mistakes. It's a thing that I wrote and enjoyed doing and reading, so it's not a mistake on that grounds. Thee wasn't any attached DNWs to need avoiding, so that wasn't a factor. But, as you can see, there's a certain amount of my own self that's having an anxiety that things went all wrong because, well, there's no proof that anything went right, and my background is the sort where convincing myself that things are going okay needs regular positive feedback, possibly more than what someone with less trauma in their background might need. So it's an exercise in identifying the source and trying to decide whether it's something worth adding additional fuel to.
(And I can go "oh, hey, look! A distraction! See that other exchange that's going to open up soon? Why not focus on that, instead?")
Today, as I was writing on my WIP, I watched my plot jump tracks from one set of rails to another, presenting me with an alternate way of getting through the chapter that worked just as well and provided a solution to making sure I included bits that were mentioned in one of the things I'm taking inspiration from for this work. That's great. At the same time, I think I still have an entire chapter that might be a full-on "???" between this one and the next one that's going to be the conflict apex. After which I don't actually have a clue what happens, other than general ideas of what needs to (because it's in the inspiring material), but I don't have a clue how I'm going to put that together yet. Thankfully, since I don't have to write it yet, it's a problem I can put off until Tuesday to nom the juicy plotburger today.
( It's tally time! )
I don't really have anything super-inspiring to write about today. Among other things, it looks like I'm just going to have to sit tight and see if my recipient is one of the people that waits for a significant amount of time before commenting. It gives me a little bit of practice in the idea that
sonia put forth in a Sundown Healing Arts letter about how people respond to mistakes, which emphasises that context is important in determining how big a mistake something is (and whether it's even called a mistake, as opposed to a risk or a gamble), that people with more privilege get to make more mistakes without disastrous consequences, and that there are healthy and unhealthy ways of fixing and calling attention to mistakes. It's a thing that I wrote and enjoyed doing and reading, so it's not a mistake on that grounds. Thee wasn't any attached DNWs to need avoiding, so that wasn't a factor. But, as you can see, there's a certain amount of my own self that's having an anxiety that things went all wrong because, well, there's no proof that anything went right, and my background is the sort where convincing myself that things are going okay needs regular positive feedback, possibly more than what someone with less trauma in their background might need. So it's an exercise in identifying the source and trying to decide whether it's something worth adding additional fuel to.(And I can go "oh, hey, look! A distraction! See that other exchange that's going to open up soon? Why not focus on that, instead?")
Today, as I was writing on my WIP, I watched my plot jump tracks from one set of rails to another, presenting me with an alternate way of getting through the chapter that worked just as well and provided a solution to making sure I included bits that were mentioned in one of the things I'm taking inspiration from for this work. That's great. At the same time, I think I still have an entire chapter that might be a full-on "???" between this one and the next one that's going to be the conflict apex. After which I don't actually have a clue what happens, other than general ideas of what needs to (because it's in the inspiring material), but I don't have a clue how I'm going to put that together yet. Thankfully, since I don't have to write it yet, it's a problem I can put off until Tuesday to nom the juicy plotburger today.
( It's tally time! )
