November Monthly Post

[ysabetwordsmith]

What are your planned projects for blogging in November? What did you accomplish on Dreamwidth during October?

It has been one month since Cohost went read-only on October 1. There are still two months left until Cohost vanishes completely at the end of 2024. So you have that much time to finish archiving your content or transferring it from Cohost to other venues, if you wish to do so. Are you finished reposting? Several folks have, and that post gives you a place to announce it when you do.

Comments

[dray]

Hi Ysabet! I'm back to dreamwidth to try blogging for the month of November; since NaNoWriMo kind of imploded, my spouse and I are looking for other ways to stay writing during this month. For them, it's writing cool small scenes. For me, it's simply trying to hit word counts and use my dreamwidth as a space to degas from the usual social media 'masking' that has had me noping on much of the internet.

Anyways, I hope the Cohost folks who came over here are settling in nicely! Kudos for keeping the door open for so many years. It's really valuable to see you are still cheering people on on Dreamwidth. Thanks!

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Hi Ysabet! I'm back to dreamwidth to try blogging for the month of November; <<

That's good to hear.

>> since NaNoWriMo kind of imploded, <<

Bummer.

>> my spouse and I are looking for other ways to stay writing during this month. For them, it's writing cool small scenes. For me, it's simply trying to hit word counts and use my dreamwidth as a space to degas from the usual social media 'masking' that has had me noping on much of the internet.<<

allbingo has Sleepytime Bear Bingo this month.

>> Anyways, I hope the Cohost folks who came over here are settling in nicely! <<

So far, some of them seem to be sticking around and posting things, which is really nice. They've brought in some interesting concepts -- check out eggbug_writes for some fascinating prompts.

>>Kudos for keeping the door open for so many years. It's really valuable to see you are still cheering people on on Dreamwidth. Thanks!<<

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service.

[vriddy]

There's a couple of chill and less chill events popping up around Dreamwidth to write in November, in case the structure helps :) mini_wrimo, ferunwrimo, getyourwordsout's Year-End Marathon come to mind! I hope your return to Dreamwidth is a good one :)

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Some of those were new to me. :D

[dray]

That's super helpful! Thank you! I'll take a look to those as I settle back into a regular writing groove. I've been eyeballing Get Your Word Out for next year's longer haul challenge. I miss that community!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Get Your Words Out is a good challenge community, but definitely benefits from warmup exercises elsewhere if you haven't been writing regularly.

[vriddy]

I've been participating for a few years and GYWO works very well with the way my brain works :D Never met my pledge and it doesn't look like it'll happen this year either... but maybe next year? ;D

Also, in a more relaxed manner, I stumbled across worderlands which is quite new but has some nice chit-chat going, and there are daily check-in posts going on in November, some with prompts, in case that helps. Good luck getting back into the groove!!! :)

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've added that community to my list.

[dray]

Ah cool, I'll take a look to them as well! Always nice to see some community chit-chat happening around the prompts and focus-down that comes to actually writing.

(And yeah, the groove is being got, one day at a time! Thank you!)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

eggbug_writes is another good one for activity.

[heya_baru]

Finished one major blog post about horror movies, now working on another. Also about 4k words into another short story, although I have no clue if I'll be done with either by the end of this month. Fiction comes incredibly slowly to me, and my film theory skills have rusted greatly since my college years.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Finished one major blog post about horror movies, now working on another. <<

Go you!

>> Also about 4k words into another short story, although I have no clue if I'll be done with either by the end of this month. Fiction comes incredibly slowly to me, <<

That's okay. Work at your own pace; good practice makes good progress.

>> and my film theory skills have rusted greatly since my college years.<<

Analysis isn't a hard skill to refresh. There are plenty of materials online for free, and just doing the work should bring it back pretty quick. It's your blog, nobody's going to fuss at you if it's not perfect right away.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sunycorning1020elec201819/chapter/how-to-analyze-a-film/

https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-to-acing-hsc-english/how-to-analyse-film/

[guildrone]

My foremost planned project for blogging this month is to…well, start blogging. I’m chockful of ideas for stuff that I’ve been meaning to put in this sort of format for a while now, so I’m gonna just try to get to grips with both getting a workflow through HTML and getting an audience on the other side. (Hence why I joined/subscribed here.)

With all of that said, uh…hi all.👋 I wish you lot luck in turn.

Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> My foremost planned project for blogging this month is to…well, start blogging. <<

Go you!

>> I’m chockful of ideas for stuff that I’ve been meaning to put in this sort of format for a while now, so I’m gonna just try to get to grips with both getting a workflow through HTML and getting an audience on the other side. (Hence why I joined/subscribed here.) <<

There are loads of resources here. The "Cohost Is Closing" post has a section on Dreamwidth code.

>> With all of that said, uh…hi all.👋 I wish you lot luck in turn.<<

Thank you!

Today I'm doing my monthly Poetry Fishbowl on a theme of "Healthy Touch & Nonsexual Intimacy." I invite you to drop by and watch the fun, maybe leave me a prompt if you like the topic.