Project Updates
Jun. 11th, 2026 04:05 pmThough now I am faced with a dilemma. So, I have been recently using the Gideon method with my writing (short version is: have a short list of projects, work on them in order for 12 hours each, have a one in one out policy for projects) and I have learned something important:
The Gideon Method really does not work with the way I write
So now it has been months since I have worked on my novel and I have lost momentum, and I also need to work out what the heck I am doing.
...one of the things I am doing is going back to the 'work on two projects at once, on alternate days'. I just need to work out what projects and in what order.
Desiderata:
- being in a drawer for longer isn't likely to hurt my original projects any more than they have already been hurt... but I don't want them in a drawer forever
- But for [reasons], I don't think I want to be alternating between two different original projects. I want to be alternating an original project with something else.
- ArtFight is coming up! I want to do artfight this year! Which will also mean I need to make references for ArtFight
- I want to get rid of the projects that have deadlines as soon as I can. These projects are 'make podfics for people who won podfic auctions in fandom trumps hate' and 'why did I bid on sensitivity reading for blind characters when I had no projects with blind characters'
- I do want to work on the Finwe/Orome fic and the 'Siffrin accidentally stabs himself' fic sooner rather than later.
Current tentative plan is to start alternating Artfight with the fandom trumps hate podfics, and the go from there.
I do have a couple ideas for shortish original fiction featuring blind characters, at least? I'm just running to 'okay, so you have an external plot but I'm confused about your internal plot, and you have a really good internal plot but I have less of an idea of how to make it external.' (with a side of 'do I want to give details on dreamwidth, or would that be showing too much of how the sausage gets made?' :P)