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Do All the Things
I was going to say something along the lines of, "Okay, the good thing is that I still haven't signed up for nanowrimo. I have signed up for five new volunteer things, but at least I didn't sign up for NaNo."
But then I was messing around on the meme last night, and got a bunny for something I could maybe actually write for NaNo. I could write it as RPF crack and then change the names and then maybe actually sell it without having to do more than change the names; I don't actually care too much about it and it wouldn't take a lot of research and if I write it as RPF crack I might not start to get all overambitious; and it would come out as a simple, formulaic novella-length SF/romance; and I could set my goal at "end of story" rather than 50,000 words.
Arrgggh. I was being so good about not being tempted by NaNo!
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...The five volunteer gigs aren't quite as bad as it sounds. The Candidates' Night is one time only. And so is the Rally, if they get back to me on that, plus I was planning to be at the rally doing nothing anyway. Tag wrangling probably won't start until after Yuletide, and will probably be patchy work after that. The Environment Trust researcher position who knows, but I've been meaning to put that in for months.
...and then there's the fact that I am apparently running The Ace Manifestos Project at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
asexual_fandom. Which was probably an unwise thing to sign up for, but I really wanted it to happen, and I went into a fugue state and had a rules post all written, so I figured wth.
It's a pick-a-topic, pick-a-date type fest, designed to be low on the organization needed, and the community seems like it's at about the right activity level to make something like this happen without going overboard or needing to much mod work, so maybe it won't all go down in flames?
I already made one mistake: I realized that I should have made more effort to make the first-come-first-served thing fair with time zones, instead of just starting sign-ups as soon as I was ready, but it was 'do it while ou're rolling or you'll procrastinate on it forever', so it was a trade off. And people can still sign up for other iterations of the Doctor and Holmes if they want!
(And by "people" I mean all of you folks who are reading this. Yes, you too. Especially you,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stellar_dust, you should sign up for Jack Harkness.)
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Oh! And something else I did while I was doing all the things? I made an Xenokink entry on Fanlore. Since it needed one. I know some of you reading this are also into xenokink; you should go help out with the entry (and if you don't want to edit the wiki yourself, you can comment here with stuff I should change/add.)
But then I was messing around on the meme last night, and got a bunny for something I could maybe actually write for NaNo. I could write it as RPF crack and then change the names and then maybe actually sell it without having to do more than change the names; I don't actually care too much about it and it wouldn't take a lot of research and if I write it as RPF crack I might not start to get all overambitious; and it would come out as a simple, formulaic novella-length SF/romance; and I could set my goal at "end of story" rather than 50,000 words.
Arrgggh. I was being so good about not being tempted by NaNo!
***
...The five volunteer gigs aren't quite as bad as it sounds. The Candidates' Night is one time only. And so is the Rally, if they get back to me on that, plus I was planning to be at the rally doing nothing anyway. Tag wrangling probably won't start until after Yuletide, and will probably be patchy work after that. The Environment Trust researcher position who knows, but I've been meaning to put that in for months.
...and then there's the fact that I am apparently running The Ace Manifestos Project at
asexual_fandom. Which was probably an unwise thing to sign up for, but I really wanted it to happen, and I went into a fugue state and had a rules post all written, so I figured wth. It's a pick-a-topic, pick-a-date type fest, designed to be low on the organization needed, and the community seems like it's at about the right activity level to make something like this happen without going overboard or needing to much mod work, so maybe it won't all go down in flames?
I already made one mistake: I realized that I should have made more effort to make the first-come-first-served thing fair with time zones, instead of just starting sign-ups as soon as I was ready, but it was 'do it while ou're rolling or you'll procrastinate on it forever', so it was a trade off. And people can still sign up for other iterations of the Doctor and Holmes if they want!
(And by "people" I mean all of you folks who are reading this. Yes, you too. Especially you,
stellar_dust, you should sign up for Jack Harkness.)***
Oh! And something else I did while I was doing all the things? I made an Xenokink entry on Fanlore. Since it needed one. I know some of you reading this are also into xenokink; you should go help out with the entry (and if you don't want to edit the wiki yourself, you can comment here with stuff I should change/add.)
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Tell me more about the Environment Trust thing, though!
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Maryland Environmental Trust are the people you go to if you want tax breaks in exchange for promising you will never sell your land to evil developers. I was poking around the DNR pavilion at the State Fair while Mom and Louise were busy filling out all the things to get free stuff, and ended up talking to a lady who told me they use volunteers for some jobs - actually going to the sites in the trust, walking around them, and checking to make sure they are being taken care of properly by the owners, and possibly(?) also some library/research work to get historical background on new properties being proposed for the trust. Apparently they usually need people, since they don't actually, y'know, advertise for volunteers, unless you happen to be wandering around the DNR pavilion being bored.
I figured hey, that's the kind of stuff I do for fun anyway; best case, it hooks me up with some way of getting paid to do that stuff. :D We'll see if they ever get back to me. (I had to send the application in the mail. On paper.
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~join us~ it only eats your soul a little bit! (But then, I've only been messing with it for a month or two.)
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But could you have feasibly done that without making everything extra super complicated? And as you said, the most popular characters have enough source to also accomodate several people writing things, with different foci. I'm still hoping someone else will do Brett!Holmes, or I'm just going to end up doing it at some point!