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Jan. 8th, 2021 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI have three exchange fics due by the end of the month and one due early in February. I'm a little concerned that I've over-committed, but they're all things I want to write. I've only started one of the stories. For the other three, I'm still dithering about which prompt I want to go with.
Because I'm trying to keep part of my brain busy while I consider story options (this is often a thing I need to push back and under for a while before I'm ready to write), I've been reading a lot of Project Gutenberg poetry and pulling out fragments for potential titles. There's a sweet spot in terms of what I can parse well enough to find phrases I like while still not being so caught up that I can't let the rest of my brain run. This is generally not actually good poetry; sometimes, it's actively bad poetry. There's just also a level of bad that I can't handle, and yesterday I bounced off of four different books in a row which is kind of discouraging.
Project Gutenberg books also have the problem that I can't easily tell how long a book is. I can compare the size of the files, but I don't have a good feel for what those numbers mean, especially when I can't tell if there are illustrations. I prefer shorter books because I end up feeling glutted if I read the same author for too long. I also really want to finish books once I start them because it's easy to lose track of where I was and of which ones I'm working on.
The difficulty is that, when I find an author I can read, I want to be sure I don't lose track of them but know I will.
Years ago, I used to play solitaire for the mental effect I'm getting from the PG poetry (when it works), but my hands aren't up to even computer solitaire now. I can still type; I just can't handle shuffling or clicking the trackpad (a mouse would be much worse).
Because I'm trying to keep part of my brain busy while I consider story options (this is often a thing I need to push back and under for a while before I'm ready to write), I've been reading a lot of Project Gutenberg poetry and pulling out fragments for potential titles. There's a sweet spot in terms of what I can parse well enough to find phrases I like while still not being so caught up that I can't let the rest of my brain run. This is generally not actually good poetry; sometimes, it's actively bad poetry. There's just also a level of bad that I can't handle, and yesterday I bounced off of four different books in a row which is kind of discouraging.
Project Gutenberg books also have the problem that I can't easily tell how long a book is. I can compare the size of the files, but I don't have a good feel for what those numbers mean, especially when I can't tell if there are illustrations. I prefer shorter books because I end up feeling glutted if I read the same author for too long. I also really want to finish books once I start them because it's easy to lose track of where I was and of which ones I'm working on.
The difficulty is that, when I find an author I can read, I want to be sure I don't lose track of them but know I will.
Years ago, I used to play solitaire for the mental effect I'm getting from the PG poetry (when it works), but my hands aren't up to even computer solitaire now. I can still type; I just can't handle shuffling or clicking the trackpad (a mouse would be much worse).
