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-Jules


"You're one bad day away from being me."

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  • 396 weeks
    Sneaky Jules Writes a Blog at Midnight To Skew the Results to a Question

    First the old business: For the fifteenth or so time "I am back and writing and etc." but we'll see. I am writing Masks in another tab right now, but this chapter hasn't really done it for my motivation in the past. Maybe now that I've changed its role in the overarching plot (which I assure you, is a real thing) I'll do it.

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  • 413 weeks
    It's a good thing I'm not professional

    So instead of writing Masks or the thirty minute prompts I hammered out a rough outline for the only story idea I had that no one seemed interested in, wrote two chapters of one of the more interesting ones (with an entire cast of characters I have yet to name, so every character is replaced with <Friend from town> and <son> or <protagonist>) and then stared at Masks for about forty

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  • 417 weeks
    I'm Just Glad It's Over

    That one's probably not a self-help book either, and if it is, it's not a very good one.

    This post is about this past week and why I'm glad it's over.

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  • 418 weeks
    Choices

    Cards on the table: That's not a nearby self-help book. It probably is the title of one somewhere though.

    This post has more purpose than ones I've made before though. This is here to tell... three? Yeah, probably three specific people what I've decided to write and then anyone else who wants to look.

    More confessions:

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  • 418 weeks
    "Starting Again"

    I've decided that since every time I make one of these I start off with an apology and then move on to empty promises about improving myself pretty soon I'll either have to rebrand myself as a self-help guru and move to California or just switch to Bojack Horseman over a character from Pulp Fiction.

    ... Come to think of it both of those are Netflix Originals starring Will Arnett... Huh.

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Oct
9th
2015

I'm kind of terrible at not being terrible · 3:02am Oct 9th, 2015

Hey guys long time no see. I guess this is a little awkward considering the last time I made one of these I said I'd stop doing this.

I'm kind of awful, I think I touched on that a few times here and there. Hopefully a bit in the last one, if I didn't someone tell me and I'll make a separate post about how terrible a person I am.

I'll be honest, I barely wrote anything in however long it's been since my last post. I did do some writing, almost entirely immediately after that post though.

I want to write, I just lack the follow-through to commit to any one hobby for too long because I panic and worry that I might enjoy something else just as much or more and then instead of managing time efficiently to do multiple hobbies and schoolwork and whatever else I just commit hard to one and pretend I don't visit whatever forum/group/club/place I enjoy the others at anymore. For instance I recently tanked a calculus test and now I'm simultaneously avoiding like three forums and two groups. And then I opened this one to check in. And saw this

Wow. Almost 5k. I'm not even going to look at them till it hits 5k. and then probably only read the stories and blogs anyways.

I say I'm back. But schoolwork (calculus mostly) takes precedence right now. I'm gonna see if I can balance two hobbies (this one and some programming) and schoolwork with a semi-functional social life for a bit.

Also screw chapter 8 of the thirty minute ponies. I rewrote that 5 times since i made that last post. It's terrible every time, I swear it gets worse. I just- don't hold your breath for that because it singlehandedly kills my motivation to write anything.

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I wish I was more motivated to keep my own writing up. I still have tons of ideas and one ongoing story nowhere near finished, but I hit a wall when I realized I wasn't happy with what I've already done, and have no real reason to expect what I do next to be any better. That's... wow, that's really depressing when I say it like that.

So let's move on. Yup. I am still editing stuff, including this 10,000 word/fortnight monster that I've been helping with for the past year. I just checked after an hour of straight work on it, and I was only a seventh of the way through the chapter. Whew. Time to rethink things a bit. Maybe don't try tackling the whole thing in one night before an exam day.

What was that diagram? Grades/sleep/social life? Not too much room for hobbies like ours.

Oh yeah, and I was supposed to be doing videos and readings, too. And drawing. And I think I used to practice piano, too. Meh, I'll see something through to fruition, at least.

Here, watch Christopher Walken remind us why we all love him, that always makes me feel better:

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Hooray for being terrible at commitment! And Christopher Walken!

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