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Non-Rec: Flying by the Seat of My Pants, with Careful Planning & Spreadsheets
Day 11 - Fandom Snowflake Challenge
In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it?
So barring a few recent forays into other types of fannish content, my bread and butter has been fanfiction recommendations for quite some time now. I'll usually write a short explanation about why I've enjoyed a story (somethings it's little more than textual flailing) and that really wouldn't be hard except for some reason I decided that I would do this once a day, everyday.
The reason I am able to do this can be summed up in one word. . . Spreadsheets. Oh, I have so many spreadsheets. This allows me to keep everything organized and to be on top of my output despite the fact that I will go long stretches of time when I read no new fanfic at all. It's kind of feast or famine, all three hundred sixty five recs for 2018 were all done in a very active 2017. (Consequently this allowed me to move to two new platforms, WordPress and Dreamwidth, in 2018 without my output suffering).
I really need to get back into the swing of things soon though, I've less than a month to go with already prepared recs. It's hard though, winter has always been my least productive season (I'm not really sure why) but I see the deadline in the distance. ;)
So barring a few recent forays into other types of fannish content, my bread and butter has been fanfiction recommendations for quite some time now. I'll usually write a short explanation about why I've enjoyed a story (somethings it's little more than textual flailing) and that really wouldn't be hard except for some reason I decided that I would do this once a day, everyday.
The reason I am able to do this can be summed up in one word. . . Spreadsheets. Oh, I have so many spreadsheets. This allows me to keep everything organized and to be on top of my output despite the fact that I will go long stretches of time when I read no new fanfic at all. It's kind of feast or famine, all three hundred sixty five recs for 2018 were all done in a very active 2017. (Consequently this allowed me to move to two new platforms, WordPress and Dreamwidth, in 2018 without my output suffering).
I really need to get back into the swing of things soon though, I've less than a month to go with already prepared recs. It's hard though, winter has always been my least productive season (I'm not really sure why) but I see the deadline in the distance. ;)
