#Multitasking Jobs

[retrogamingblog2]

Nintendo Switch Accessories made by inceptualize3D

[campbyler]

ik part of it is that life and work just Be Like That sometimes, but every time i check back on your blog it seems yall are going through chronic ao3 author syndrome. sending love and good vibes your way i hope all three of you are doing ok and can catch a break soon!! (ik suni and thea yall are the ones writing the rest of it but sending love to andi as well)

also any tips on writing longer chapters without them sounding like they’re dragging on? i’m a (more casual) fic writer and my chapters always end up a little shorter than i usually hope they’d be

awake at 3am in a fit of jet lag and laughed aloud upon reading this bc you’re not wrong 😭 i feel like part of it is just timing, like thea’s work has a big busy season during the fall every year and her schedule also varies week by week and even day to day so i know some stretches are more difficult than others by default (rn she has been having to work from home on her weekend or after she clocks out which has been extra rough). my work tends to have bursts of insane work days every few weeks or so, and i just have a shitty daily commute on top of that and will sometimes get home like 12 hours after i left in the morning or something. so honestly there is a nonzero chance one of us is having a subpar time on any given workday i fear, and that schedule is pretty unpredictable given the nature of our very full time jobs. i also think it’s just statistically more likely that when we are active there is a reason for our Grievances to be brought up, either organically because we are coming out of a slump and are complaining about the Horrors or because someone checked in on us in a period of absence and we are giving a quick update, but either way, thank you so much for your wishesssss! thea will be getting a break soon (thank god) and i’m actually entering a bit of a busy stretch at work for the next week or so because we have a grant deadline to meet, which always means 10000 last minute experiments that i have to work into my schedule in the middle of the week and it’s really fun and lovely and great. woo hoo. 🙂

as for chapter lengths, i wish i had more solid advice but my problem is genuinely that i can’t for the life of me seem to trim them down 😭 i guess a part of it is largely how your chapters are structured — i only have a couple chaptered fics outside of acswy, but all of them are planned so that each chapter is quite meaty in terms of content or what i want each scene to accomplish. i will say that the singular thing that consistently drives up my word count is DIALOGUEEEEE!!! a blessing when i’m in a rut or have writers block and am trying to get something down on the page, a menace when im editing a scene transition i left to fill in for later and my wc is right at 29k and im sweating watching the number tick up. i find there’s absolutely nothing wrong with shorter chapters if it’s accomplishing what you hope for and i honestly am working really hard on trying to be more concise, but i do find dialogue to be a good way to slow down a scene that’s maybe rushing or is paced a little quicker than you intended. real conversations often stray off topic, people ramble or get sidetracked or get interrupted by things they’re doing — i love describing people talking while doing chores or eating or whatever because you can break up the dialogue with bits of action — and at least for me, it’s a lot easier to work in some narration or description in with dialogue than it is to just write a couple paragraphs of it straight up, which also sometimes feels a little more blunt and Quick than i intend it to be. one thing we both do a Lot is script out dialogue between characters and then go back in to fill in things like speech tags, action descriptions, inner monologues and thoughts, etc. literally just like:

character 1: ___ character 2: _______ 1, (note on how it’s meant to be said or what they’re thinking/intending to say to cue us in later): _____ 2: _____________ (small description of them moving around/something happening in the background to give a visual for describing later)

so on and so forth. it helps a lot either when we want to establish the setup of a dialogue heavy scene before we forget our inspiration, or we’re feeling a bit too blocked to be able to write more descriptively at the moment, etc etc. it’s a really natural way to focus on the flow of conversation without getting caught up in transitions and repetition of dialogue tags and stuff, and usually is the culprit for a scene taking way longer to finish than expected for me.

all that being said, the times i have actually felt like a chapter is paced too quickly is usually either when the dialogue exchange is too fast and feels like the conversation could be more fleshed out, or maybe likeeee a transition happens a little too immediately and it reads a little bit like one thing happening after the next after the next without much of a pause for expansion. if you’ve managed to get your point across in fewer words and your main concern is driving up the word count, i really wouldn’t worry about it! you could always have someone look at it with a fresh pair of eyes and ask for places they feel could use more explanation or detail (maybe describing a setting more vividly? or giving more insight to some of their thoughts at a certain point?) but genuinely — conciseness is a Skill, and seeing how i have once again accidentally answered an ask with one million words, i’ll actually just trade you some of my internal word vomit right now. here you go -> 🎁

[straykats]

have recently coined the term Multitasking Jester, in which i multitask and fail at said tasks

[moonstandardtime]

plan for today. hold me accountable.

eat first. shower. do laundry. do job applications. AFTER at least the shower is done, play nikki

[100frogsinatrenchcoat]

What they’re doing at camp —

Lily: her job

Kenneth: weed

Bowie: weed

Kanye: murder

Viper: Riot

Kial: weed

[wizardnuke]

btw did my actual job at work today and my day went by so fast and i felt so useful and not bored out of my goddamn mind. i am so sore though

[noirandchocolate]

I never got on Discord because the thought of joining servers seemed very intimidating not to mention I thought I (old and out of touch) wouldn't be able to figure out what buttons to push and also there's that whole 'Oh No What If I Annoy Someone' Thing that in general keeps me from initiating conversations anywhere ever

BUT TODAY

I finally downloaded it and joined two servers and both have been extremely welcoming and omg seriously this is a lot of fun aaaaah.

[transgirltrish]

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[indiegame]

some of my favorite japanese maples from today

[shu-bullshit]

Now that I have more comparison, I actually do feel illustration is physically so much easier... It's dissatisfying in a lot other aspects, dealing with art directors and stuff. But tattoo is so demanding in comparison, it just burns through your battery so quick I'm at 5% when I get home everytime...

[atlantis-just-drowned]

"Hate is the closest thing to love" not in a romanticised way but in a disordered way.

I react like a whore to both.

[ringneckedpheasant]

really trying to Not be cranky today but my coworker who walked out last week was supposed to be my mid today & the person who picked up her shift called in -_- the best HR could give me was that the next person would be in before I have to take my lunch break which is just. before noon. love to work six fucking hours alone.

[dzozef]

i can not even begin to explain how stressful the last two days have been at work

[tomboyyyaoi]

i wish i was one of those people who could be creative no matter what, who just had that drive to doodle confidently all the time and never get tired, ive lost a lot of creative drive w my job and im feeling really rough about it, im trying not to put too much pressure on myself to draw esp since we're in the roughest time of year to stay motivated and take time for urself, i just want to make art again

[tamarahtalkstv]

I’m Starting A Tasking Business And I Need Ideas For Its Services.

What Are Some I Can Add To It?

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I love my job and I love all the students and think they’re wonderful people but… Sometimes being a parapro is like real life Five Nights at Freddy’s.