I miss the Snowflake Challenge.

[spiced_wine]

I looked forward every day to what the next one would be. There was much appreciation and love. I did accept keiliss challenge to post more on LJ. I generally don't post much, but surely I can find something to say. Or to ask? What's every-one doing fandom-wise?

Comments

[nelyo_russandol]

That is so totally awesome. It's great that you're paid to do something you enjoy and helps a lot of people. :o)

[spiced_wine]

It does seem to help, going by the comments. I don't see all of them, but the ones I do are very humbling.

Self-help - I am useless. Helping other people -- it seems I can, in some small way.

[keiliss]

I've not been on the site before. I've bookmarked it - started listening to the one with the waves and want to do that properly when the house is quiet. The open fire too is very inviting.

Fandom - around Christmas I stopped halfway with some comment ficlets I was posting and need to finish those (the snowflakes rather took over *g*) Then there's Slashy Valentine coming up and after that the B2Me fic, so I have plenty to write. Of course that means I outlined and want to write something else entirely.

[spiced_wine]

started listening to the one with the waves and want to do that properly when the house is quiet. The open fire too is very inviting.

I can relax to any natural sounds, waves, wind, streams. I used to have something to play before I went to sleep, and it was always so soothing.

Of course that means I outlined and want to write something else entirely.

Really? XD That is probably why I don't do challenges; I have the feeling that I would suddenly want to do something else entirely.

[keiliss]

I lived literally five minutes from the beach for years and used to fall asleep listening to the sea. I still miss it.

Actively wanting to write something else might be an improvement for me. Usually challenges bring out my 'cannot write, have never been able to write, want to crawl under a rock' side *g*.

[spiced_wine]

Actively wanting to write something else might be an improvement for me. Usually challenges bring out my 'cannot write, have never been able to write, want to crawl under a rock' side *g*.

This sounds like a good time to find this quote from an article I read about writers.

Your taste is why your work disappoints you.

It also explains how some really untalented writers and musicians and are more confident and less inhibited about self-promotion than the good ones. Low standards, met easily. If you’re self-conscious about showing your work, good, there’s a reason for that. Bad artists are bad because they don’t know what good looks like.

I have seen this a lot; people who really cannot write being immensely confident, beaming with pride, while the fic authors I know who genuinely are good are pulling he blinds down, hunching in a chair and telling themselves they're awful. It is the strangest phenomenon, but I think the article I quoted from hit the nail on the head.

'Taste isn't kind'. Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling.

[spiced_wine]

I think you make a great Merida.
Three or four Con's? Are they all in Canada?