Ok so now the Librarians prompts are out I have all four for the summer:

– Librarians (July)

– AU August (funnily enough August lol)

– Timeless Fest (end of August)

– Star Trek FemSlash (start of September)

And between them I have 20-25 prompts picked out that I think have potential. It’s a lot, more than I can do I am sure especially because I have trouble starting.

Last year I got a piano. Not to take it ‘seriously’ like I do with art or writing but I still want to learn and get better, because I want to play cool pieces. I find music soothing. Anyway I fell off doing regular practice and then just didn’t restart. It’s been something I have been screaming at myself for. Every week I am like “need to do piano practice!!!” and then just not. On June 1st I was like ok let’s make it a goal/targeted priority and I have now done it twice, on the two days of the month.

There’s like this innate resistance. It’s breaking out of inertia I guess? Like the old “rolling stone” keeps on rolling, but getting it moving is oh boy the hard part.

Anyway I feel like this might be my issue with art. There are studies and practice exercises I need to do. Like with the piano every week I scream about doing it, and then just don’t. But I feel like if I can just *start* then I might be able to keep going. It’s taking that first step.

Projects/deadlines break me out of that but prompt events struggle as the deadline is too soft. Nobody notices or cares if I don’t submit. It’s not like an exchange or anything. That’s why “Year of the OTP” just never happened.

So I don’t know how it’s going to go. We’ll see I guess. I hope I will make some cool stuff but breaking that inertia – that’s the challenge.