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Write Every Day: 30 August 02019
Aug. 30th, 2019 09:27 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 30 August 02019.
I feel like I'm getting behind on a lot of things. You have to make decisions about what you want to do in any give any day, I suppose, but there's always more material that you could complete in a full day. I don't regret the decisions being made, but it always feels like there's more that I would like to do on any given whatever. Multi-tasking is tough to do on things that require attention and focus, though, so this is the way things are.
I remembered to post things in time for their deadlines. I had them completed, but since the Archive posts at the day they're posted, not the day they're revealed, apparently if you want them to show up somewhere maybe near the top of the list, you want to have them, as a publication day, be as late as possible. That's right impossible for a lot of megafandoms, but for smaller ones, it might help get them some readership if someone's following the tag or the fandom. Maybe. Truthfully, though, exchange fandom writing is often about seeing whether or not the recipient enjoys it, and anything else you get out of it is gravy and great to know that it has some wider appeal.
I've also not really figured out what a good metric to use for figuring out whether something's good. Is it mass counts of things? Fine-tuned ratios? I mean, even AO3 offers some user tools for calculating ratios, with suggestions on where the "good," "meh," and "aw, shoot" points are. If I use the default ratios, a lot of my works are in the "good" category, even if their counts of kudos, hits, comments, or bookmarks aren't all that high. There's probably a statistician's thesis statement in trying to figure out an approximate formula that takes into account hits, kudos, comments, bookmarks, and tries to figure out whether something's good. (With, perhaps, a corollary about outside-the-Archive recommendations, should you ever discover them, and how that might influence the formula.)
I did some writing, too, today. I got through a chapter that I think might be a little weak compared to other ones, but that means I'm at Climax Mode for this particular work, and so the next chapter is going to have to flow relatively well if it's going to be a satisfying payoff. Which makes me worried that it's going to splat instead, but I'll know how it goes when I get to the writing part of it. I know what the approximate beats are, at least, so we'll see how good I am at stringing the set pieces together.
( It's tally time! )
I feel like I'm getting behind on a lot of things. You have to make decisions about what you want to do in any give any day, I suppose, but there's always more material that you could complete in a full day. I don't regret the decisions being made, but it always feels like there's more that I would like to do on any given whatever. Multi-tasking is tough to do on things that require attention and focus, though, so this is the way things are.
I remembered to post things in time for their deadlines. I had them completed, but since the Archive posts at the day they're posted, not the day they're revealed, apparently if you want them to show up somewhere maybe near the top of the list, you want to have them, as a publication day, be as late as possible. That's right impossible for a lot of megafandoms, but for smaller ones, it might help get them some readership if someone's following the tag or the fandom. Maybe. Truthfully, though, exchange fandom writing is often about seeing whether or not the recipient enjoys it, and anything else you get out of it is gravy and great to know that it has some wider appeal.
I've also not really figured out what a good metric to use for figuring out whether something's good. Is it mass counts of things? Fine-tuned ratios? I mean, even AO3 offers some user tools for calculating ratios, with suggestions on where the "good," "meh," and "aw, shoot" points are. If I use the default ratios, a lot of my works are in the "good" category, even if their counts of kudos, hits, comments, or bookmarks aren't all that high. There's probably a statistician's thesis statement in trying to figure out an approximate formula that takes into account hits, kudos, comments, bookmarks, and tries to figure out whether something's good. (With, perhaps, a corollary about outside-the-Archive recommendations, should you ever discover them, and how that might influence the formula.)
I did some writing, too, today. I got through a chapter that I think might be a little weak compared to other ones, but that means I'm at Climax Mode for this particular work, and so the next chapter is going to have to flow relatively well if it's going to be a satisfying payoff. Which makes me worried that it's going to splat instead, but I'll know how it goes when I get to the writing part of it. I know what the approximate beats are, at least, so we'll see how good I am at stringing the set pieces together.
( It's tally time! )
