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selenayIt's kind of nice to know that I'm not alone in my love for happy endings and my frustration with the "If it's happy then it's not good literature!" police. Yay us! Go Team Happy! :-D
I finished fic editing last night and it's now resting quietly before I post on Friday. The wait until Friday is mostly (a) to give me some time for any final checks (a couple of lines got added to two chapters, I want to reread to make sure they work before I post) and (b) to give me time to think of a title.
Titles and summaries are my nemesis. It was interesting to listen to episode three of the current season of the slash report podcast where writers were discussing all the different elements of writing (seriously, go read episode 303 because it's fascinating) including the fact that they also struggle with summaries. Yay, I'm not alone!
For shorter things I've been resorting to using a couple of lines from the fic that give a feeling for what the fic is about (content and style) and, hopefully, entice people to read more. This seems to work better than I'd anticipated, at least according to my sample of two friends I've talked to about this.
For longer things where a couple of lines, however well chosen, probably won't capture the fic concept there's the actual summary to write. Fahre can tell you how many drafts I sometimes go through on this. How much wailing and gnashing of teeth there is. It's not pretty.
For the circus AU, I actually have a summary. I've had one since I was about halfway through writing the first draft.
Which only leaves the title, but do you think I can figure out a title? Nope! Six weeks I've been debating and rejecting titles. SIX WEEKS. Fahre has thrown some song lyrics at me and I think there are a couple of possibilities there. Better possibilities than anything I've come up with so far. Now I have two days to fix on something.
Yay self-imposed deadlines.
The exciting life of a fic writer, guys. Write 27k of fic accidentally. Stall out on picking a title.
In fitness plan news...
Doing the exercise when I get off my butt and sit on the exercise bike or throw on my shoes for a hike isn't the problem. Getting off my butt on Monday and Tuesday evenings usually isn't a problem, provided I don't sit my butt down when I get home from work. Those are the evenings when there's enough time in my schedule to get in an hour of exercise before supper and if I go straight to it, I can do it.
I've sat down when I got home on a Monday/Tuesday way too many times this winter. Sitting down turns into tea and books and not exercising. This is what I need to stop doing.
Getting the motivation up to get off my butt on a weekend is the other problem. In an ideal world, I'd work out three times a week. Not once or twice, three times.
Except I'm not very good at that even if the reward is less pain in my back and knee.
However, I'm very motivated when there are points and badges to earn so I'm trying out Fitocracy. Apparently it treats exercise like a video game, with points and levelling up and quests and things to work toward. We'll see how that goes. I was pretty happy to get to level three in two days, but I sense that each level will get harder to achieve. Hopefully I'll keep motivated even when there's some grind element to it.
I've tried a few different exercise trackers over the last couple of years but the major problem is that they all focus on calories burned and they've all got food tracking stuff integrated.
Let's just say, this is a disaster for me. I get competitive with myself to stay in a big calorie deficit and I end up losing weight. No matter how firmly I tell myself that I don't need to track my food and I shouldn't look at the calorie burn, I do it anyway and my weight goes way, way, down. Dudes, I do not need to lose weight. Seriously, it would make my specialist cry. My BMI needs to stay over 20 or he starts talking about supplement drinks. Blech.
What I want to do is tone up the flab and extra couple of inches from a winter of slothlike exhaustion. And have a better overall fitness level if I get too sick to exercise for a while.
So I'm giving this Fitocracy thing a go and seeing how I do with it. Wish me luck!
I finished fic editing last night and it's now resting quietly before I post on Friday. The wait until Friday is mostly (a) to give me some time for any final checks (a couple of lines got added to two chapters, I want to reread to make sure they work before I post) and (b) to give me time to think of a title.
Titles and summaries are my nemesis. It was interesting to listen to episode three of the current season of the slash report podcast where writers were discussing all the different elements of writing (seriously, go read episode 303 because it's fascinating) including the fact that they also struggle with summaries. Yay, I'm not alone!
For shorter things I've been resorting to using a couple of lines from the fic that give a feeling for what the fic is about (content and style) and, hopefully, entice people to read more. This seems to work better than I'd anticipated, at least according to my sample of two friends I've talked to about this.
For longer things where a couple of lines, however well chosen, probably won't capture the fic concept there's the actual summary to write. Fahre can tell you how many drafts I sometimes go through on this. How much wailing and gnashing of teeth there is. It's not pretty.
For the circus AU, I actually have a summary. I've had one since I was about halfway through writing the first draft.
Which only leaves the title, but do you think I can figure out a title? Nope! Six weeks I've been debating and rejecting titles. SIX WEEKS. Fahre has thrown some song lyrics at me and I think there are a couple of possibilities there. Better possibilities than anything I've come up with so far. Now I have two days to fix on something.
Yay self-imposed deadlines.
The exciting life of a fic writer, guys. Write 27k of fic accidentally. Stall out on picking a title.
In fitness plan news...
Doing the exercise when I get off my butt and sit on the exercise bike or throw on my shoes for a hike isn't the problem. Getting off my butt on Monday and Tuesday evenings usually isn't a problem, provided I don't sit my butt down when I get home from work. Those are the evenings when there's enough time in my schedule to get in an hour of exercise before supper and if I go straight to it, I can do it.
I've sat down when I got home on a Monday/Tuesday way too many times this winter. Sitting down turns into tea and books and not exercising. This is what I need to stop doing.
Getting the motivation up to get off my butt on a weekend is the other problem. In an ideal world, I'd work out three times a week. Not once or twice, three times.
Except I'm not very good at that even if the reward is less pain in my back and knee.
However, I'm very motivated when there are points and badges to earn so I'm trying out Fitocracy. Apparently it treats exercise like a video game, with points and levelling up and quests and things to work toward. We'll see how that goes. I was pretty happy to get to level three in two days, but I sense that each level will get harder to achieve. Hopefully I'll keep motivated even when there's some grind element to it.
I've tried a few different exercise trackers over the last couple of years but the major problem is that they all focus on calories burned and they've all got food tracking stuff integrated.
Let's just say, this is a disaster for me. I get competitive with myself to stay in a big calorie deficit and I end up losing weight. No matter how firmly I tell myself that I don't need to track my food and I shouldn't look at the calorie burn, I do it anyway and my weight goes way, way, down. Dudes, I do not need to lose weight. Seriously, it would make my specialist cry. My BMI needs to stay over 20 or he starts talking about supplement drinks. Blech.
What I want to do is tone up the flab and extra couple of inches from a winter of slothlike exhaustion. And have a better overall fitness level if I get too sick to exercise for a while.
So I'm giving this Fitocracy thing a go and seeing how I do with it. Wish me luck!
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Date: 2013-03-13 05:26 pm (UTC)I find sometimes the thesaurus helps - if you look up circus in it you might find some words that inspire you. Generally I find that setting up everything to post to a site and leaving the title and summary bits blank make me think of something.
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-13 10:08 pm (UTC)Also, best wishes with the exercise!
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Date: 2013-03-14 12:04 am (UTC)If only I could pun :-D