Trix

I've had that post title in my head for days now.

Anyways, I have not been very active on this blog over the past *checks notes* eight years, so let's have a bit of catch-up.

The world went to shit, twice, I got into multiple podcasts, made a bunch of new friends on Discord, started participating in Get Your Words Out, Got back into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, started writing fanfiction for that, and have now written a couple hundred thousand words of published fic for that series alone.

I've also grown up a ton, have far fewer fucks to give about the various bullshit things that have been happening in multiple spheres, and am determined to just create the fic I wanna see in the world, no matter what. And I'm having fun doing it!

That's ... not as long as I thought it was going to be. But it is still accurate.

So I discovered this thing on Tumblr the other day, called Get Your Words Out, or GYWO for short. It's a writing community/challenge thing, where you pledge to either write a certain number of words over the year, or do writing-related activities on a certain number of days throughout the year. There are seven levels of wordcount pledge, and three of writing activity pledge, and there is a lot of flexibility in what words/activities count, which is great for me!

I chose a relatively low-level wordcount pledge because I'd rather not stress myself out needlessly, so I went with 150k words for the year. And unlike NaNoWriMo, which encourages you to write for one thing during the month, GYWO counts words from all the projects you work on during the year, as long as they're all new words. It even counts long meta posts on things like Tumblr, not that I really write those. I think it even counts worldbuilding notes, but I'd have to double-check that.

The community is hosted here on Dreamwidth, and so this account is actually being used for something! I've been terrible at social media since forever, so I haven't logged in here in a while. I'll probably be here more often, though, because of the GYWO community. Although they do have a Discord, so I'll probably be over there as often as not.

I'm not yet sure how I should be tracking my words for each month, as I have to check in monthly or risk losing my membership in the community, but I'll ask others who participate what they do and see if one of those approaches works for me. It's exciting to be a part of a writing community that knows the struggle of being a creative person with ADHD who wants to do better, lol. At least, that's how I'm choosing to interpret the lack of hard or soft restrictions on one's projects. :D

I'm sure I'm not the only one on here participating in this protest. It's something I can do! Of course I'm going to do it!

So I've logged off of Tumblr and I had to remind myself this morning that I couldn't check my dash, 'cause I was logged out, and it'd probably be pretty sparse anyway.

All the plans for future protests are stuff I can do, though, and you can bet I'm going to do them! I'm already thinking of getting a Twitter just to have that available. I don't exactly like Twitter because of the character limit on tweets. I know I haven't demonstrated it here very much yet, but I do like to ramble, and that's hard when you only have so many characters to work with.

Hello! I've joined this site partly because Tumblr's going down the gurgler, partly because I don't have a Pillowfort yet, and partly because I like the sound of this place. I'm new and shy and don't know if I know anyone on here, so I'll just be chilling over on this page and keeping it up to date as best as possible. I want nice social media platforms I can work with, and I think this is one of them. I liked the way LJ was laid out, so I could adjust easily enough to this place. :)