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[nekokoban]

So after four months (herpderp, I was going to do it monthly and that turned out so well) I updated my to-do list for writing and realized I have absolutely no writing challenges/etc signed up for! WHICH IS ALL WELL AND GOOD, though part of the problem was that I was signing up for stuff when life was a whirlwind of crazy (not to say it still isn't, but it's ... LESS of a whirlwind, more of a dust devil now) and then having to beg out. I still feel bad about the imaginarybeasts one, I EVEN HAD AN IDEA, BAWWWWW. But.

The guest room is scraped and painted after a week of frustration and rawr and pain!
The roommate is moved in and the cat hasn't killed me in my sleep for bringing another person in!
My last app got in, so I don't have to write a new one and revise it!

There's still redoing some of the grouting for the bathrooms, and a few other things to take care of, but for the most part, I think things are settling down. And I am at a point where I have saved enough to buy a netbook, and let me tell you, it is extremely tempting right now, especially with how my laptop hates life and refuses to properly register my n key half the time, and the a key is threatening to go the same way. Bawww computer, love me! ;w;

Also there was an overwhelming amount of people being terrible and encouraging me with my Social Experiment, which I'm not sure--can I really call it that? I'm not planning on using it as an excuse for anything (I just plan on writing ridiculous porn, but very frankly, all of my porn is ridiculous, so maybe it should just be like those mainstream novelists that use pen names to write for Harlequin or whatever and gawd smack me now for comparing myself to actual professionals). Also I know this is something that gets bemoaned everywhere fic writers congregate, that porn and OC borderline (if not deeply in that territory) Mary Sues always get more attention! I JUST WANT TO SEE IF IT IS TRUE. IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS TRUE, BUT! Though this probably means I should spruce up my acutal normal FFnet account, so I have a proper control. Or should I use my LJ? But I think FFnet still gets a larger readership, since I tend to get semi-regular notifs of comments/favoriting versus my poor dusty disused LJ. A proper control should be in the same format, but ugh, I really hate formatting for FFnet; I hate how it gets rid of my linebreaks and scenebreakers and boo. MAYBE I WILL MAKE THAT A PROJECT.

Oh my god, guys, I miss writing so much it is like physical pain. :( But while my keyboard's fine for chatting and the comment-spam style threads that CFUD uses, actual writing-writing makes me grouchy. All of the LJ updates I've had for the past like three months have been, as a majority, made from work. Baw.

/goes to look up netbook reviews again

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[wafflehearts]

It seems a new computer sounds good here >>


Also yes isn't FF.net formatting ahdjkgf ridiculous I hate it so much.


HI /comments almost instantly after friending 8D;

[nekokoban]

SOB THAT IS THE PLAN--my actual goal is to get a new desktop and a netbook, when I've had laptops for years, but right now, in the savings account I have set up, I only have enough for the netbook. HMMM HMM. :|a

It is the most ridiculous, I don't even. I can c/p something with the proper coding and formatting and somehow their editor mangles it and I have to go manually fix things anyway! (Also I lost a pun in a title that I was very proud of, since it required punctuation and FFnet munched it. :[)

BUT HELLO I feel I should apologize for being boring in advance. :B

[wafflehearts]

I only have a laptop and have had that for years. :|a I want a macbook, actually. I've got a PC right now.

ffff that's just stupid. And then, when you've edited it and saved it, you can't go back and edit the actual content at all. (at least I can't >:) And I found typos I want to get rid of and I'm too lazy to "upload a new document" to the manager. On second thought, I think that fic disappeared in my harddrive crash /)_(\

...pfft ♥ We'll see about that.

[nekokoban]

I've gone through ... threeeeee? laptops in the past like nine years, and I just want a desktop so I can have a bit more solid processing power--the netbook would be for going to coffeeshops to write and taking with me easily when my friends are having whirlwind gatherings.

... what seriously, sob, that is ridiculous. I've had even stuff that was beta'd run into a handful of typos that needed fixing, and it is the most irritating thing to not be able to touch up. :[ Sob, maybe I should try the alternate LJ approach, I AM NOT SURE YET.

Boring is my standard disclaimer for myself, sob. :B

[wafflehearts]

...oh. Well. In that perspective, I've had three laptops in all :|b But yeah, desktop sounds amazing, but man, I'd never be able to afford the type that has the power I want. I'd need enormous amount of harddrive space and a GREATEST BEYOND GREATEST graphics card and such. Processing and colouring images in photoshop when they're like... 200 MB big, 10000x10000 in size can be a bit taxing on a regular computer |D; And here I exhaust my back dragging my laptop with me everywhere. I want one of those mini mini ones.

LJ is okay if you know what sort of communities to post at, relating to what you're writing, but like, in regards to fics, it's difficult to find people that give actual crit, rather than just say "wow that was amazing" or similar >>

I think most people would say so and then it's not true :)

[nekokoban]

Haha, yeah--we have desktops at work and it is reeeeeally nice, how things don't sputter and choke and die if I have a zillion things open in Photoshop and I'm playing my music and paging through scans and have Firefox and IE open. <--multi-tasker The nice thing is that you can get a more-powerful laptop for less than you could get a nice laptop, so I've basically got a piggy-bank account set up to save up. But sobbb I want a netbook. *_*

Yeah, it was like I was telling Zidane, the real problem is that some of the stuff I'd want to write is the purely self-indulgent stuff that's vaguely embarrassing to post on my usual journal, BUT a lot of the ones I'd write for include, like ... really tiny nonexistent communities, or else they're really disorganized/untouched/etc. It's less that I want crit, because I can post fic to my regualr journal for that, and more that I want to see if "someone who writes primarily porn" really gets more comments/pagehits/etc than "someone who writes primarily gen," of which I am the latter.

YOU WILL LEEEEEARN. ♥

[wafflehearts]

Jealoussss I mean, I can still run a lot of things at the same time, but it'll start to lag after a while, and make it impossible to use ;o; /usually has a game, photoshop, firefox, IRC, AIM and some other program open at the same time.

Ooh... make a writing journal?

:P

[zidane.livejournal.com]

Well, why not use both ff.net and LJ and compare the responses? I've always gotten the impression that LJ has a different readership than FF.net (at least that's what I've learned from "IF YOU POST FIC TO FF.NET I ~JUDGE~ YOU" secrets @ fandomsecrets).

Also, do you have an AO3 account?

[nekokoban]

So create a separate LJ account for this sort of thing as well? :|a I think it's right, though--just in general, my experience has been that a lot of ficwriters start at FFnet because it's a gigantic community solely for fanfic, but gradually migrate to LJ for whatever reasons. FFnet is just easier because of all the places where I post, I get notifs from it most-often.

And I do! Since I participate in Yuletide regularly, I have one, I am just beans at remembering to upload anything to it. Also, just from my vague memories/skimming, AO3 has a stronger bias for Western/life-action fandoms, which are not something I am very strong in. :|a

[zidane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although like you say due to the large readership specifically looking for fanfiction, ff.net requires less or no "advertisement" to get readers; an LJ account would require joining/posting to the relevant fandom communities in order to get pageviews/responses.

[nekokoban]

That is the other thing! :|a I've been poking through community searches for the fandoms where I'd want to write these things (some of which admittedly would just be the ridiculously self-indulgent stuff I'm too embarrassed to share with my "general" readership, such as it exists XD) don't really seem to have very active centralized communities--or else they're like the size of a pin. :V
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Man, sockpuppeting is difficult even when you're not trying to build a new identity from the ground up; how do people do it? \o_O/

[zidane.livejournal.com]

Fandom Wank teaches me that it is accomplished through determination laced with malice.

[nekokoban]

I SEE. :|a ... I'm too lazy.

[llyse.livejournal.com]

[nekokoban]

I've tried that, sadly--I even bought a can of compressed air and if there is gunk underneath, it's not anything that various cleanings have done anything to fix. :\ I'm reluctant to actually take the machine in for any testing, though, because it's the only machine I have, and I'd rather have a semi-glitchy one than none at all. I am saving up, though, so hopefully soon I will have what I need for new machines. o/;;

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to hate FFnet. Every time I visit, I get smacked with three of those animated ads.

[nekokoban]

ADBLOCKERPLUS IS MY FRIEND. :'D I actually forget some sites have flashing ads until I try to look at them from a different machine.