Fic retreat
Sep. 3rd, 2018 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Friends, I took that vacation.
Sort of: I booked two nights at a hotel a few towns over at a last-minute discount rate, purposefully did not connect my laptop to the wifi, and determined to work on fic all weekend. My biggest problem is giving in to distractions, and my biggest distraction is the internet, so locking myself in a mostly empty room seemed like it would help. It's silly because I know I could just turn off the wifi in my apartment, but for some reason it was easier to break the habit in a hotel by not forming the habit in the first place. The change of scenery and furniture also helped.
And it worked! My 750-word Hanzee/Constance story is now 3,200 words and compleeeeete, hooray. First fic I've finished in, what was it, two years and a bit? And it only took a week and a half after watching the show. Feels like longer ago.
Perks of the hotel plan: free breakfast and parking, air conditioning, kitchenette for storing and preparing food from home and/or takeout, heated swimming pool for breaks. Downsides: $, yelling children, loud doors at night, incorrect advertising of device hookup capabilities with the TV, ceilings that spring leaks at 11 p.m. But they're comping me for the second night on account of said leak, so the $ isn't bad at all. (I had to ask them if they were going to do anything to make up for the late-night room change, though. If I hadn't, the bill wouldn't have been adjusted. Yay assertiveness. Less yay customer service.)
The other silly thing is I ended up leaving my apartment for the two cool days in the middle of several weeks of oppressive heat and humidity. Now that I'm about to head back, it's swampy again. Sigh. I'd like to try this method again to take a break from uncomfortable weather, as well as by actually taking days off work, since I'm pushing the maximum accrual for PTO. A nice problem to have, for sure, but there always seems to be stuff I want to get done at the office when the writing or vidding bug strikes, and my supervisor has unpredictable reactions to time-off requests.
ETA: I did avoid the worst of Sept. 1, a.k.a. the day half of Boston plays musical chairs with dorms and apartments. Spotted 13 moving vans/trucks on the way out of town and 5 on the way back today.
Now I'll need to do that Fargo season two reaction post & fic primer. Not sure how many people will want to read it, between the warnings and the small size of the fandom. But I am happy.
Sort of: I booked two nights at a hotel a few towns over at a last-minute discount rate, purposefully did not connect my laptop to the wifi, and determined to work on fic all weekend. My biggest problem is giving in to distractions, and my biggest distraction is the internet, so locking myself in a mostly empty room seemed like it would help. It's silly because I know I could just turn off the wifi in my apartment, but for some reason it was easier to break the habit in a hotel by not forming the habit in the first place. The change of scenery and furniture also helped.
And it worked! My 750-word Hanzee/Constance story is now 3,200 words and compleeeeete, hooray. First fic I've finished in, what was it, two years and a bit? And it only took a week and a half after watching the show. Feels like longer ago.
Perks of the hotel plan: free breakfast and parking, air conditioning, kitchenette for storing and preparing food from home and/or takeout, heated swimming pool for breaks. Downsides: $, yelling children, loud doors at night, incorrect advertising of device hookup capabilities with the TV, ceilings that spring leaks at 11 p.m. But they're comping me for the second night on account of said leak, so the $ isn't bad at all. (I had to ask them if they were going to do anything to make up for the late-night room change, though. If I hadn't, the bill wouldn't have been adjusted. Yay assertiveness. Less yay customer service.)
The other silly thing is I ended up leaving my apartment for the two cool days in the middle of several weeks of oppressive heat and humidity. Now that I'm about to head back, it's swampy again. Sigh. I'd like to try this method again to take a break from uncomfortable weather, as well as by actually taking days off work, since I'm pushing the maximum accrual for PTO. A nice problem to have, for sure, but there always seems to be stuff I want to get done at the office when the writing or vidding bug strikes, and my supervisor has unpredictable reactions to time-off requests.
ETA: I did avoid the worst of Sept. 1, a.k.a. the day half of Boston plays musical chairs with dorms and apartments. Spotted 13 moving vans/trucks on the way out of town and 5 on the way back today.
Now I'll need to do that Fargo season two reaction post & fic primer. Not sure how many people will want to read it, between the warnings and the small size of the fandom. But I am happy.
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Date: Sep. 4th, 2018 06:07 pm (UTC)Also forgive my allergy to the term "adulting." :)
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Date: Sep. 4th, 2018 07:10 pm (UTC):D