Another short fic and a podfic

[sophinisba]

I wrote another ficlet, this time in the form of five drabbles:
-See what's in front of you, MCU/Iron Man, Pepper/Tony/Rhodey, 500 words, general audiences (but kind of sad).

I also did another podfic:
-night shift, MCU/Captain America, Sam/Steve, 9 minutes, general audiences, fluffy AU written by my old friend glim.

I've been doing the old morning pages since July 1st and that's been fun. Actually writing in a notebook with a pen and without a goal. Since I haven't been working lately and I've had that as the first thing I do after brewing the coffee and feeding the cats, I've been feeling happier waking up than I had in months or possibly years.

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[shirebound]

I've been feeling happier waking up than I had in months or possibly years.

Hooray!

[sophinisba]

😍

[claudia603]

So when you do the morning pages, are you just doing general journaling or do you actually do fiction writing? Or just whatever comes to your mind?

[sophinisba]

Thank you for asking! I am mostly writing whatever comes to mind.

I am trying to avoid "Yesterday we got takeout for dinner, today I need to work on the thing" because it is boring and repetitive (I do a lot of the same thing from day to day) and makes me think about work and goals. On the other hand I am not trying to accomplish anything with like, fic works in progress, and so far I've mostly avoided writing about familiar characters. So it's more whatever comes to mind and often noticing when a word or a phrase has an interesting sound, and then I write another word or phrase that has a similar sound, like one day I wrote down "morning pages" and then "mourning pagers" and then some other stuff.

I always write down the date first so on Saturday I wrote "July 10, 2021" and then I wrote "Julie tends –– twenty, twenty-one times" and then was like, who's Julie? So I made up this character and a girlfriend for her and then for the next three days I wrote about Julie and Jane during the pandemic.

So I feel like so far it's lightly stretching fiction and poetry writing muscles, muscles, but not in a goal-oriented kind of way, like must finish the scene, must get these two characters to kiss or to reveal their secrets or to tie each other up, which is what I'm trying to do at other times of day.