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[pennie_dreadful]

If this post had a title, it would be, in which I think of a kink meme prompt, and after posting it, start writing it in my head.

And seriously words are starting to come out. I feel a little better re: anxiety. Still not at maintenance level, which is probably 75--85 percent. But better than I was. If I'm writing again, that's definitely a good sign.

But this prompt, oh my god seriously why did I think of this, why am I writing it, knowing that I can't write anything short, ever.

In light of this, and because of the way I write stories, I downloaded ywriter on my laptop; I had it on my old desktop, but I never really used it because MS Word is a hard habit to break, idk.

Watched some figure skating, And holy fuck why are any major international events held in Colorado where the altitude is difficult to acclimate to. One of the skaters needed an oxygen tank after his short program. Jesus.

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[thene]

HAHAHAAH OH GOD. I did this once, and, well. Also, I'm pretty sure that one of my favourite shortfics evar was written by the same person who prompted it. WHY NOT, REALLY.

I love ywriter, because it lets me hop between different things so easily, and I am cool with its relative lack of sophistication when it comes to text stuff (but I used Wordpad prior to ywriter, not Word, so I never went in for bells and whistles). I have like five different unfinished fics rolling around in it right now, and on a good day that can at least prod me into working on ONE of them, right? (and yet so often, not). Helps me hop around within a multichapter fic, too (plus I get to have extra scene files for bits that are too goddamn stupid to be part of a fic).

I'm so glad you're feeling better. <3 Here's hoping it stays that way.

[pennie_dreadful]

On the very first computer my family ever had, I wrote a good chunk of my ~novel~ on Notepad, before my dad installed MS Office. Fuck, those were the days. It had Wordpad, I have no idea why I didn't use it. Goddamn masochistic streak I guess, ha fucking ha.

I look at ywriter and it's like...what is this, why is it supposed to be easier than a regular word processor, I don't get it. I just need to dick around with it some more.

I think the real reason I am claiming my own prompt is because no one has ever claimed any of my prompts (which I guess are a bit dauntingly off the wall...this one no less so. fuck.)

[thene]

eh, I don't even use most of the features in ywriter, I just make chapter files for all my projects (or groups of projects) and then tons of scene subfiles so I can nip around from place to place. I like having the extra organisation & being able to break big jobs down into manageable chunks, plus tools --> daily progress log is nice for keeping track of all the words, but at the end of the day words are just words wherever I put them (or, on some days, delete them and do-over).

Poor lonely prompts! :( Needs some self-lovin', lol.