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For the Love of Stories
Jan. 8th, 2019 08:46 pm So both because it sounded fun and because I wanted to get more used to using DW, I signed up for a yearly writing pledge via ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout , just the "light" 75k to start out, and it's made me realize just how much I've missed creative writing. I took some classes in undergrad and have written short stuff on and off, but had never had a lot of time to do it otherwise since I was in...middle school, probably? I remember writing constantly back then, fanfic and RPG forums were my life.
I'm already on my way to surpassing my goal for January, and loving it. It took me a few days to get into the rhythm of it, but now I really look forward to my daily writing time a week in - I even find myself writing during my breaks at work, ha. It's just so nice to rediscover something that used to bring me so much joy and still get so much out of it. I didn't know how much I missed telling stories until I started telling them again.
The novel I'm working on is at the moment provisionally named Whale Fall and involves a young trans person leaving home to live with his queer uncles (one of whom turns out to be a Norse personal/protector spirit) on the Oregon coast. I'm also planning some appearances by Rán, goddess of the drowned dead, and a lot of nerdy queer history stuff. I'll likely put up some character profiles here once I get my mind wrapped around everyone a little more.
It's also nice to have a project that is all my own; I probably would have enjoyed writing my thesis a lot more minus the pressure of grad school, lol.
getyourwordsout , just the "light" 75k to start out, and it's made me realize just how much I've missed creative writing. I took some classes in undergrad and have written short stuff on and off, but had never had a lot of time to do it otherwise since I was in...middle school, probably? I remember writing constantly back then, fanfic and RPG forums were my life.I'm already on my way to surpassing my goal for January, and loving it. It took me a few days to get into the rhythm of it, but now I really look forward to my daily writing time a week in - I even find myself writing during my breaks at work, ha. It's just so nice to rediscover something that used to bring me so much joy and still get so much out of it. I didn't know how much I missed telling stories until I started telling them again.
The novel I'm working on is at the moment provisionally named Whale Fall and involves a young trans person leaving home to live with his queer uncles (one of whom turns out to be a Norse personal/protector spirit) on the Oregon coast. I'm also planning some appearances by Rán, goddess of the drowned dead, and a lot of nerdy queer history stuff. I'll likely put up some character profiles here once I get my mind wrapped around everyone a little more.
It's also nice to have a project that is all my own; I probably would have enjoyed writing my thesis a lot more minus the pressure of grad school, lol.
