.Update for June 2019 · 5:13pm Jun 24th, 2019
I've been mentoring a grad student on "de-scoping". It's time for me to do that here too:
- The markup on iisaw's older fic will get sent to him as-is, after my next visit to my old city (ink-on-paper markup is filed with old creative writing projects; I only brought active projects with me). I had problems with the direction the story went, and should have either finished the markup or bailed on it when that occurred instead of shelving it.
- The Bad Horse dataset is mothballed. So is the email debate about it. I'm doing enough math at work that I don't want to do more at home any time soon, and the debate made it very clear that I fundamentally disagree with several assumptions Bad Horse is making about statistics.
- "Evil Dead, Chainsaw Good" has been moved to the "mothballed" list. It's a fun idea but would have been very difficult for me to write. If I find the time and motivation, "LAN Party of the Night" and "Celemac Vignettes" are the stories most likely to be revisited, and CV is only on the list because it has mostly-finished drafts (it was a concept I found interesting in 2012-2013 but find less so now).
On a broader note, there are still fics that I enjoy reading, and still projects that I enjoy working on, but I've spent most of the last year feeling drained. As a result I've been spending downtime on mindless entertainment rather than anything creative. I hope that this will change given time (my best guess is that it's just poor sleep habits that have been causing it, and I can fix that). The job, at least, is still lots of fun.
