@rumple-belle, @ripperblackstaff, @mariequitecontrarie, @theoneandonlylittlebird and @sarashouldbestudying THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for your thoughtful responses to my ‘should I create a writing sideblog or not?’ post.

The unanimous consensus was that I shouldn’t and as that’s less for me to worry about, I’m going to go with that! 🙂

So how am I going to go about this?

Well first off I’ve added a link to my writing posts (thanks to Sara for the idea). It just forwards to the ‘Sam talks writing’ tag at the moment but I’m contemplating creating a masterlist of writing related stuff. There’s the Once word crawl, plus some pep talks, and there will be more come November when NaNo season starts again. I might even have some cool tips to share from my degree, who knows 🙂

Second I’m planning on implementing “Fanfic Fridays” because I cast my mind back to summer 2016. I had this WIP (The War Within) and pretty much without fail I updated every Tuesday. I recall making myself sit and write because I. Couldn’t. Miss. Posting. Day.

Now this could fail epicly like every other self-imposed deadline in the last couple of years OR it could be the exact structure I need to get back on the horse and do the thing. Thus far my instructions to myself have been project based (e.g. finish X by Y) but what I’m going with this time is “finish anything so long as it’s by Friday”. Only time will tell whether that helps.

Thirdly! Thirdly? I’m going to go back to doing monthly roundups. I stopped doing them out of embarrassment but I think they help, especially with the ‘and next month I will…’ that I tacked on the bottom. I think I actually said in those posts ‘I can’t hit a target that I can’t see’ so maybe it’s time to start actually making those targets again.

Fourthly (this is getting silly now *rolls eyes at self*) I have made a WIP page listing everything that is currently on my list and what the status is.

Finally! In addition to the ‘Sam talks writing’ tag which I’ll dump everything in, I’ll also use extra tags like #myrumbellefic or #mygarcyfic to differentiate between the fandoms because I do have some things that aren’t Rumbelle that I want to write. That way if I’m blathering on about a fanfic for a show you don’t like you can blacklist.

Let’s see how this goes and if you guys have a suggestion of anything writing related you’d like to see from me (besides poor PLL being updated of course) then let me know 🙂