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I’ve got a lot of Tron projects underway, but need to sit down and get them organized and prioritized. A lot of this revolves around writing more in general. I use writing to think and process, and lately I’ve just… gotten into the bad habit of Not Doing That.

So I’m gonna fix it and get myself to write more things! Right now, I’ve got a few goals set.

Getting my writing out of centralized platforms and having them hosted on things I control.

This means moving my WIPs and shortfics/sketches out of my tumblr blogs and Notion workspace. It might also entail moving the git repositories I use for writing onto a self-hosted thing, but that’s a bit more involved.

In practice, this means I’m attempting to move to the POSSE method (Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) for my original posts — shortfics, meta, everything else. I’ve used my tumblr as a personal blog for several years now, but I have the skills to run my own stuff, so I should be doing that. This will probably extend to my finished fics as well (which are all on AO3 right now, but nowhere else).

This doesn’t mean I’m leaving tronblr (or tumblr more generally). I’m not! It just means that my workflow’s gonna be a bit different.

Making progress on “Finite States”, particularly “SIGNAL//NOISE”.

I’ve been slowly chipping away at this for a while, but the ADHD med shortage and some work stuff made it difficult for a bit. I’ve sketched out a few short things, but the last few months have primarily been worldbuilding and idea-gathering.

In March, I’m going to put together a more coherent outline for the first story arc of SIGNAL//NOISE, and see how far I can get with zero drafts.

As far as Mirror Image goes… That’s on the back burner right now. SIGNAL//NOISE is taking up a lot of my brainspace, and its first story arc involves a decent amount of the worldbuilding and context development that I think I need, in order to write the rest of Mirror Image consistently. I’ll come back to it soon!

Getting around to the shortfic requests in my tumblr inbox.

A really fucking long time ago, I opened up fic requests. And then the aforementioned med shortage happened, and I kinda forgot to come back to them. I really like the ones sitting in the inbox, so I’m going to make an effort to get around to those.

(They’re still open, by the way. If you’re reading this from tumblr, feel free to send something in!)

And all of these come down to one very important thing:

Letting myself throw things at the wall and see what sticks.

If I’m gonna finish anything, I’ve gotta stop getting in my own way. I need to make a space for myself where I don’t feel pressured to make things look and feel a certain way. Things can be shared as little or as widely as I want — direct links to friends, or cross-posted to my social media presences.

They don’t even have to be good.

Quantity begets quality, etc. I’m hoping this will help.