hm... maybe to get me into the groove of writing assessments i could write a small drabble or two?
i've been having a lot of trouble putting words on paper so it might get me out of the block
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Me, in bed at 2 am with ginger ale and Advil: Hahaha I love this anime 😙 now I can sleep peacefully, hopefully
my doctor told me my voice is really pleasant to listen to and I was so taken aback by it I had to sit down
tfw people just,,,,,, are obviously not into your artstyle and compare it or said it's inspired from "basic" anime like Naruto or FMA when I was never heavily into those in the first place.
sometimes I should stop finding ways to get more confidence about my art rip
looks like the library traineeship that i've been waiting for for two years has finally opened up again (after missing out on it the first time) - i'm gonna apply but i keep telling myself to not expect much despite having done a library services diploma in that time bc of my bad luck streak lately
i'd rly like to get into this position tho bc it's probably my only chance of getting into the library field as librarians are immortal and never quit their jobs so becoming a librarian might be impossible w/o it lol
it just means more study which i DID NOT want to do but i've waited so long for this opportunity that i'd be stupid to toss it away - besides, i'd be getting paid for it like it were a job AND i'd be getting a certificate three in administration (or w/e) out of it so fingers crossed i can make it bc they're only taking one successful applicant
truthfully, i'm excited
on another note (speaking of the diploma), two of my assessments are exactly the same? like it's the same task copied and pasted? obv assessment two has more than assessment one just bc the teacher section for marking has a huge list of what to look out for and it's a case study, but the task says nothing abt actually writing anything? i'm so confused ugh... why are they always so vague?
okay i think im finally past the "oh my god there are too many rules to this game" part of learning mahjong and now onto the "actually a beginner" part
The only vaguely good thing about me being ill is that it can shake loose some interesting ideas? I'm prone to insanely vivid fever dreams which is where some parts of my plots and odd characters have come from but when I'm ill I seem to be more creative with things generally. It's like some creative inhibition I have when well is lowered to non-existent when I'm ill.
Like today I realized why I was bored with my sci-fi plot and had no interest in working with it and very quickly came up with something to try. Essentially it's another layer of world building to make the setting more interesting but could lend to making an actual plot if the idea works out and I develop it just so. It's something I wouldn't of even considered trying when I was well so let's see how that goes.
I think the reason I was bored with said plot was that I had a basic premise for the world and developed character dynamics but little in the way of an actual plot past a short one-shot in that setting which I'm currently writing. It's too short-a sequence to spread out over a longer timeline, the story it's self takes place over just about 2 days and I'll probably be able to get that one-shot down in it's entirety in no more than 5k words. Anything else will be unnecessary filler. Even though I'm not writing novels or web-comics and prefer to write episodic shorts I still like to have a series of events I can string together in a rough timeline and call a plot which I just didn't have with my sci-fi 'verse.
Idk if this makes any sense my head feels like it's stuffed full of lead and I can barely think straight.