GYWO: What to do?

[wallwalker]

A few thoughts mostly related to getyourwordsout and writing communities.

I have absolutely no idea where I am as far as word count for January. I'm going to have to find the things I wrote this month, put them together, and actually see how much there is. GYWO was a last-minute thing, so I doubt I'll reach my monthly goal; I'll figure out what to do when February begins and I know how I did.

I could really stand to find more communities. Active ones, preferably, for original fiction or for fandoms that I am still somewhat active in.
I still like fic_promptly as a concept and will still plug it from time to time, but it hasn't been working for me lately in practice. This is partially because so many prompts there are free-for-all now, which are hard to give or get meaningful feedback for works when they're from a fandom you/the prompter doesn't know. Also, a lot of the people who prompted for or were familiar with my fandoms aren't there anymore; I still get a few nice comments, but not like I used to. So I probably won't be there very often anymore. When I do write there, I'll focus on trying to come up with something for fandoms I know well, especially the older prompts. Including my own. We'll see if/when people post more.
(Maybe this is petty. I don't know; I don't think it's really a bad thing to acknowledge that something's not working for me anymore. I do need to try to catch up on comments, but I don't know what to do for free-for-all prompts in unfamiliar fandoms besides "This is nice, thanks!" or something similar. I'm always afraid people will think that's rude.)

I could try fan_flashworks again. Especially now that they're on amnesty for the next few hours. See if I can catch up a little bit....

I have a few personal things I could do. My original Twine idea is still there, but might be over-ambitious for something I know so little about. I might do something a bit easier to program, like a little bear exploring a forest. Focus on writing and getting a decent story flow going before I start worrying so much about making the hidden mechanics work.

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[st_aurafina]

There's a new prompt comm, fandomweekly - I don't know the mod, but I'm keeping an eye on it. I want to get more writing done through the year, instead of all at the end during NaNo.

I used a word tracking spreadsheet when I was doing GYWO - there's some fandom ones here for download.