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It's a work week for me, which means 5 consecutive 12 hour days with 8-9 hours of physical labour. That of course doesn't leave a lot of time for fun/online activities.

BUT I got convinced by friends to start a little fandom exchange for Emergency! and preparing that takes up most of my free time. I called it Silly Little Emergency Exchange Project or SLEEP for short. I'll make a community for it some time this week and finish up all the prep. It's a lot. It's fun and I'm not complaining but it's a lot.

The good thing is I've already done a lot, despite my limited time each evening. I'll hopefully finish it this Saturday.
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I really want to finish the fics I write. I have so many ideas, there are always new ones, I take notes and write some scenes and plot but they never get finished. I took part in a fic exchange that really helped me with it, at least for this one fic. Now I've got my hopes up I might find a way to manage that with my longer projects too. But I really don't know how to work on a long term project consistently. Maybe I should start slowly? And start with shorter fic ideas I have laying around?

Or maybe I'm overthinking it (as usual) and should just do the thing. but how

It's difficult though, or at least I find it difficult, to sit there on my own trying to figure everything out with zero feedback or anyone to discuss my ideas with. I have tried discussing my ideas with friends in the fandoms I try to write for. They are mostly excited about the chance of fanfiction but not exactly helpful in figuring  out plot points, beta reading etc.

The big exception are my Emergency! friends, they are enabling gremlins and they know it. The thing is, E! is one of the less inspiring fandoms for me, and I'd love to know people from other fandoms like I do among the E! folks.
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I can't be arsed to do this properly but I really need something nice that I'm doing for myself instead for uni or work or my family or hiding behind doing things for my friends.

Challenge #1: Update fandom information

What are the current fandoms I'm partaking in? There is some Emergency!, you know the 1972 TV show, cause [personal profile] guardy dragged me me down that rabbit hole and I even wrote a fic for it! They also convinced me to get a spinning wheel.

I'm also too deep in Bashir/Garak fanfiction for my own good.

Challenge #2: my fannish origin

I think I answered that before, but it lays somewhere between The Persuaders! with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. Watching that while still in elementary school and thinking damn, they act like a silly couple opened my eyes to a new world. From that point on I started seeing it in Star Trek and the books I was reading and god knows where else.

But my first step into anything fandom related was when a friend of mine in 8th or 9th grade told me about fanfiction and when I first looked it up I walked straight into smut. Fanfiction.net, you know? You never know what's inside with that one.

See you later, hopefully!
 

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