Oh this landfill mining article is actually a spot on match for a Twine game I’ve been tooling away at (for years lol)… 👀 Thank you for your continued contributions with these resources. It’s a rich mine of not just content, but story ideas, all on their own.

Good luck finding a nerd (compliment) to talk about phytoremediation with!

:) yes! I’m very excited for the spring breezes already hinting at their arrival amid the winter briskness.

rutt

Oh that’s too funny, and somewhat embarrassing. I feel so seeen 🙈 hahaha. That is a great note, though. I definitely have been spelling it wrong… probably for a long time.

Dream journaling really is magical. No matter how memorable a dream might feel upon waking, you can almost guarantee it will fade away into the background of your mind if you don’t note or record it in some way. It feels almost like conjuring something from nothing.

I hope it goes great for you. :)

Compared to getting on with life, writing is a luxury, so I appreciate you taking the time to come check in. Here’s hoping for a breezy spring like you say.

Nice, and yeah, sometimes the direct approach is the best!

CW: tarot talk is enclosed in {{…}} moustaches, if you’d rather skip over that kind of woo. I honestly don’t blame you. :p

I still haven’t really hit my stride, this year, although I’m at least out of the deep rutt of doing nothing which is a huge relief. I continue to have some success with pantsing. And also, inspired by chatting with another member of this club, I’ve drafted a list of “rules” for the fanfic/bromance/short story I’m working on.

While I don’t have it as bad as some people I know, I believe I haven’t been immune to the dampening effect of the late Winter months. Maybe I already mentioned this, but {{February was my Moon month of my year spread, which is like kind of a major major arcana for creative weirdos who like playing with superstition (but not really–don’t worry), but it sure didn’t feel like a numinous/weird/creative/magical month, so}} while I was hoping to really lean into the Winter to get my creativity popping off, it’s actually just been OK. I think I’ve got to stop blaming the seasons, the weather, {{and cards}} for my spirits haha, and just… I dunno, either accept it, or try to do something about it. Maybe both??

For next month I’m going to try to write 1000 words. It might not sound like a lot, but it’s more than I got done in February, so I’d be happy if I landed anywhere near this target!

It would be so funny if a juice commercial became the template for the movement that saved the world.

Great tips, we have to keep switching it up too as some techniques lose their effectiveness over time.

One technique that helps me occasionally when I’m really distracted, is to like gamify it. I’ll just keep a piece of paper and add a check in the margin every time I get distracted but brought myself back on task, or like a “special” checkmark when I was just starting to get distracted but caught it before getting all the way distracted!

Anyway yeah whatever tricks you can do. I’m big on tactility and making marks on paper so my tricks/tools/systems involve a lot of notebooks and highly idiosyncratic symbols and checklist flows (like [~] means kind of done lol)

Omg…

If it’s not a server then it’s getting turned off when I’m not using it

Aww 🥲 yeah

Someone didn’t go to genie school

The best one

Buy castle vania

(I got 8 eyes as a kid, which is great, buttt)

Lol they even used their made up fantasy name 🥾👅

Nah

🫡 I’m going to try pressure my employer to do the same. Like is this thing saving anybody money??

I usually have in the back of my mind what I’m working on next. I’ve had the most success with just sitting down and writing garbage before the motivation comes, then doing a bit of reading, then just purely adding content not editing or trying to fit the new stuff cleanly at all (I’ll often repeat myself and have to delete a lot later, but it’s worth it to “prime the pump”)

PS. I love this use of the writing community. I think this kind of support and exchange could be really helpful, so thanks for setting a good example.

Oh that sounds like great advice