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A while back, I realized that I had been on a streak of posting every day, and decided to set the goal of posting every day for 100 days straight. Today is the 100th day of my streak, for a grand total of 147 posts! Yay me!
It was easy at first, since I was doing the 30 Days of TV meme, so I knew I'd have something to post every day. After that, it got a bit more difficult, but it was interesting to challenge myself in this way, seeing as how I'm no longer really using the journal for the purpose it was created (writing fic), and I have at times angsted over what to do with this space, what sort of things to post that people might actually be interested in reading. (If you're curious, male feminists and fandom monopoly were by far the two most popular posts.) There were a few times when I was like, "Crap! I haven't posted yet today! I need a meme!" but most of the time there was enough going on to make legitimate posts.
I have agonized a lot over the lack of fanfic in the past year or so, both in what it says about me as a writer and what it means for my contribution (or lack thereof) to fandom. I have a pretty high threshold for writing fic - it takes a magic combination of characters and universe and interesting "what ifs" to make it happen, and only a few shows have ever inspired me to write - and so as much as I miss writing, it becomes nearly impossible when I'm not as interested in the show as I used to be and when I'm very frustrated with fandom. It's still hard, though, not to see it as personal failure, not to compare myself to other people and come up short (yes, I am a neurotic perfectionist, nice to meet you).
Part of my quest to watch as many new TV shows as possible is to see if I can find other things that inspire me in that way, but it's so rare that I don't expect much. I have watched many brilliant shows (Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter) that didn't inspire fic. At the very least, it gives me things to talk about as I post reactions to each new show.
Anyway, I'm curious what you, as readers, thought of the posting experiment. Did I drive anyone crazy by posting so much, lol? Are there things you want me to keep talking about? Things you wish I'd shut up about? Things I haven't mentioned, but you want to see discussed?
It was easy at first, since I was doing the 30 Days of TV meme, so I knew I'd have something to post every day. After that, it got a bit more difficult, but it was interesting to challenge myself in this way, seeing as how I'm no longer really using the journal for the purpose it was created (writing fic), and I have at times angsted over what to do with this space, what sort of things to post that people might actually be interested in reading. (If you're curious, male feminists and fandom monopoly were by far the two most popular posts.) There were a few times when I was like, "Crap! I haven't posted yet today! I need a meme!" but most of the time there was enough going on to make legitimate posts.
I have agonized a lot over the lack of fanfic in the past year or so, both in what it says about me as a writer and what it means for my contribution (or lack thereof) to fandom. I have a pretty high threshold for writing fic - it takes a magic combination of characters and universe and interesting "what ifs" to make it happen, and only a few shows have ever inspired me to write - and so as much as I miss writing, it becomes nearly impossible when I'm not as interested in the show as I used to be and when I'm very frustrated with fandom. It's still hard, though, not to see it as personal failure, not to compare myself to other people and come up short (yes, I am a neurotic perfectionist, nice to meet you).
Part of my quest to watch as many new TV shows as possible is to see if I can find other things that inspire me in that way, but it's so rare that I don't expect much. I have watched many brilliant shows (Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter) that didn't inspire fic. At the very least, it gives me things to talk about as I post reactions to each new show.
Anyway, I'm curious what you, as readers, thought of the posting experiment. Did I drive anyone crazy by posting so much, lol? Are there things you want me to keep talking about? Things you wish I'd shut up about? Things I haven't mentioned, but you want to see discussed?
