WIP Progess and RL Madness
2022-12-03 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rodoI am now stuck in the worst part of my story process – the looking-for-a-beta phase. It’s also where plenty of my stories go to rot. I seriously wish there was a good, commonly accepted way to find betas that was accessible to people like me. I hear it’s mostly done via chat these days and I don’t do chats (plus, the fandom is tiny). Anyway, I added a couple of short scenes to round out the story in the editing phase, so the current status:
Drafted chapters: 17/17 ✓
Typed up chapters: 17/17 (76,999 words)✓
Edited chapters: 17/17 (77,577)✓ (love the word count)
Beta: TBD
And I found out that I just cannot ignore typos and other minor mistakes when editing. I have to fix them, or I can’t concentrate on anything else, no matter how hard I try.
In RL news: right now it seems as if I can’t do the job retraining program as work from home because the German bureaucracy is still stuck in the age of the fax machine (quite literally). The kicker: the job retraining programs most accessible to me via commute are all done online, so I would have to commute for at least over an hour per day to sit in front of a computer to do an online course for eight hours while someone sits in the room “in case I have questions” – this someone being a random white collar worker who can only answer administrative questions.
And now, I’ll go try to solve today’s Advent of Code problem (thank you again, two people who recced it to me). Yesterday’s was easy. Today’s, not so much, at least for me.
Drafted chapters: 17/17 ✓
Typed up chapters: 17/17 (76,999 words)✓
Edited chapters: 17/17 (77,577)✓ (love the word count)
Beta: TBD
And I found out that I just cannot ignore typos and other minor mistakes when editing. I have to fix them, or I can’t concentrate on anything else, no matter how hard I try.
In RL news: right now it seems as if I can’t do the job retraining program as work from home because the German bureaucracy is still stuck in the age of the fax machine (quite literally). The kicker: the job retraining programs most accessible to me via commute are all done online, so I would have to commute for at least over an hour per day to sit in front of a computer to do an online course for eight hours while someone sits in the room “in case I have questions” – this someone being a random white collar worker who can only answer administrative questions.
And now, I’ll go try to solve today’s Advent of Code problem (thank you again, two people who recced it to me). Yesterday’s was easy. Today’s, not so much, at least for me.
