meridian_rose

Happy Valentine's day, or if you pefer friendship day, anti-valentine's day, galentine's day and Happy Friday!
Just because I'm taking a breather here it doesn't mean I'm not still thinking of you all :)

Day 9 – Commit an act of kindness

I'm not sure it's nice so much as part of being polite and part of fandom and meets my goal of commenting on fics I finish, but I've left a lot of comments this week on fic and icons, including an icon I found on another site and sent PM to let user know I loved their work. I wrote semi-crack fic for ysabetwordsmith's prompt and posted it here. I read, commented, and voted on original fic at therealljidol. I linked someone to a piece of media they'd expressed interest in. And I've tried to leave comments on posts in my circle and to reach to a few new people via snowflake and have made new friends!

And if anyone needs an invitation for AO3 I have a couple, just comment and let me know and I'll send you a code :)

edit: tjs_whatno wanted for their 6 for people to check out other people who are completing day 6 (fannish wishlist) later, so I've tried my best to give some recs and comments :)

For newcomers, this is my BAG post, a term borrowed from the Fluent Self blog (Been, At, Going). I've not done great updating the monthly personal post this year but I hope to do better.
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Day 1 Why you're participating in Snowflake
Day 2 Favourite memory about fandom
Day 3 Rec fanworks you did not create
Day 4 Create a fannish wishlist
Day 5 Rec a fannish or creative resource
Day 6 Leave feedback
Day 7 Create a love meme
Day 8 Share a piece of canon

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Just once a month I make a detailed personal post, and inspired by the Fluent Self blog, I call it a BAG post, where I've Been, am At, am Going. Posts may include good stuff/work/health/family/pets/creativity/general whining and I finish off by including some gifs for people to enjoy.
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Quick update: 30,136 words!


Things I'm doing in NaNo that I sometimes do but am doing even more: placeholder names for people and places that I'll have to fix in editing, but which I know I can't stop and choose now because I'll waste so much valuable writing time and interrupt my flow. Having no clue about directions (also placeholders for NORTH, SOUTH, etc) until I get a rough map of the territory planned out. Having only a vague idea about the layout of the main residence where most of the action takes place and hedging details.

Things I'm doing in NaNo that I know are a good thing but sometimes it's nearly painful: writing crappy sentences and not stopping to fix spelling errors. I'm trying to write what I mean, so later I can come back and express it in a more polished manner, rather than rewriting a sentence three times and maybe using the thesaurus and then editing the previous sentence as well because now it doesn't work as well.
That's not to say I'm not rewriting at all because occasionally I do need to merge or rearrange a couple of sentences. But I'm limiting it, a lot.

I'm still concerned about So Many Things.
But I've written over 30k in 18 days. Not the suggested minimum every day but close enough, and making it up on others, that I don't get too far behind.
And I've also written this month at least 1k on my Small Fandom Big Bang; about 3.5k on the first draft of my Yuletide fic; about 3k in meta/reviews.
Other things have fallen by the wayside and I want to explore more what I'm learning and how I might move forward after NaNo.
For now, I'm reeling a little at the enormity of it, how far I've come, and how far I have yet to go.
And I want to say a quick thank you to everyone who's been cheering me on!

Happy Birthday Jan! Have a great day!

A birthday gift for brontefanatic from meridian_rose, dorothydeath, vorquellyn, and hrhrionastar.
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To those of you already now in 2013 and those who will be soon, have a wonderful start to what I hope will be a fantastic new year! Best wishes from Lisa (meridian_rose) and Claudia (right) and Madison (left) :D