Swamp

Several months on Dreamwidth and I still don't know what I wanna use this account for.

Either way, I'll try to document my writing progress here as I took part in getyourwordsout with the lowest possible word count tier of 75k words a year!

Considering I have written approximately 400k words in six years this felt like a challenge that I might actually be able to complete.

In January I felt a zest for life that I haven't in a long time. I have spent upwards of half an hour every day writing, usually more, way more, sans for two days at the beginning, the third and the fourth of January.
I hope to not repeat that mistake as that has costed me at least a hundred if not a thousand words /hj

Having said all that, here are the stats.



I have managed to not do 1/12 of the challenge but nearly 1/4. Am I proud of myself? You bet. It's January.

Here's a daily graph by the way.



I feel amazing. I didn't know writing down how many words I'm actually writing, planning, editing can be so motivating! I always felt like it would be just a painful reminder that I don't write enough yet here I am breaking all my records.

I know that I'll probably end up writing way less in February, as I have an exam session in just a few days, and vacation months will probably all go to shit too but... it's nice to have done so much already and have a hope to do a lot in the upcoming months.

Stay safe, stay sane!

Okay, so the past week was amazing, but I had zero time for myself, so right now I'm procrastinating summarising an academic magazine and listening to my song on repeat to try and force myself to do something you know?

Here it is, brand new, by the way:



I spent entirely too long on this... especially on the subtitles.

Anyways, yes, University! University of Białystok is an unbelievably welcoming institution. People there are nice. Multiple professors have roasted politicians, gaining my infinite respect, and I got some reading recommendations, like Martin Amis's "Time's Arrow: or the Nature of the Offence". I hope it will be as good to read, as was the short excerpt my prof showed us.

I also need to find time to read Apology of Socrates as we're going to discuss it during my philosophy class.

I have decided I will excel in this university, and I see nothing stopping me, aside maybe from the constrict of time and me being prone to procrastination... Oh well.

Right now, the paper I'm procrastinating on, is called "Finding God(s) in Fantasylands: Religious Ideas in Fantasy Literature" by Weronika Łaszkiewicz. It's really interesting, I just don't want to summarise it lol

But! I'm gonna try my best to summarise it casually here, maybe it will help me summarise it for my homework in a more serious style?

Basically, the author analyses how different literary works interact with religion (mostly Christianity, I think the author might be Christian) either as an allegory, critique or creating a secondary religion based on existing ones.

I think I might have chosen a wrong article, because its thesis isn't clear, and the text is all over the place, for example it is mentioned that Harry Potter might influence children to follow occult practices... and then it's not mentioned again. It is also: Not True in my opinion. Generally the whole paper was too Christian in my opinion. I will have to word it somehow... sigh. Literally the only good fragment was about C. S. Lewis and The Narnia Chronicles.

...I got distracted. Oops? In my defence I've been sitting over this paper for several hours and it's making me lose my mind.

Wish me luck and also time.

I don't think I'm gonna take part in any writing events next month which is bumming me out.
I have sadly lost my spark. I don't think I'll be capable of producing enough fics to take part in any of the current events. Shame, I was looking forward to Sick-or-Treat and Whumptober, and maybe some other events... if I could I would write for them all, alas...

But that's good, university starts soon and I'll need to seriously get my gears going to stay on top of it.

Do you know soulmates? Of course you know soulmates, who doesn't know soulmates. What if instead of having the predetermined person who will complete you, you chose among other folks and literally woven your souls together? And if the ritual failed you'd feel hollow until you found someone willing to share their soul with your ripped one forever?

Continue reading...

This idea is just bouncing around my brain. Has been for months.

In a fantasy world, being able to share your magical abilities with one another if you wave your souls together, so a person wants to have a certain soulmate just to further their magic, and nuh-uh it doesn't work like that.

Shame on you. Shame on your cow.

I wanna write a ShinDeku story about that, that starts as your usual BakuDeku and KamiShin. I want to break some stereotypes on the characters' heads. I want to do so many things.

I finally manned up and posted an original piece of instrumental music called "A Hint Of Magic". I hope you guys like it!

I doubt it will be the case but if anyone ever wanted to do a remix I can provide the musescore file.

Well, I have officially dominated FF.net's BnHA page.
I hope in like 10 hours when I wake up I will see some engagement on them.



I have yet to post my best fics, simply because FF.net is not letting me post that many fics in a row. I am being rate limited. Sucks.

I have a headache that's splitting my head, I feel it in my teeth. I should sleep.

Anyway if you want to check out my fics here they are on AO3 and FF.net.