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this thing called posting
Jan. 9th, 2013 07:33 pmOne of my resolutions for 2013 is to update this journal at least once every week with something relevant or meaningful, or anything that would help record what I've been doing because my memory for specific experiences is really crap. Another resolution is to be healthier, to eat healthier and keep a healthier sleeping schedule. It's for my own sake, anyway, and it's to stop me making a fool out of myself whenever I end up nodding off at work. The third is to write at least 5000 words every month, for any of my projects.
I've already broken the first two lmao. I've yet to see if I can pull off the third, but maybe my current mincing pace will improve once I get used to writing again.
Of course, I keep telling myself that there's still the rest of the year to make up for it.
I dropped from SC last December, and thus ended my three-year fixation with LJ/DWRP. For the longest time I was determined to stick with the game until it officially ended, but the people I enjoyed playing with the most just started leaving one after another, and one evening I suddenly realized that I wasn't having fun anymore.
I don't regret it, all that time I poured into this one hobby. I made some good friends, had a lot of fun, and will be leaving unfinished, unresolved storylines for my characters--I was emotionally invested in a lot of ways, and an attachment like that can't be discounted. What I do regret is failing to manage my time such that I was doing nothing but this one thing at the expense of everything else. I'm going to fix that now.
A fourth resolution (that I actually only thought of just now) is to improve my deteriorating penmanship. One of my sisters gave me Starbucks' 2013 planner for Christmas, which I've decided to use as a personal journal for minutiae, stuff that I can't be bothered to blog about--and as I was writing down the first daily entries I realized how ugly my handwriting's become. Using a keyboard for everything--writing, work, communication--means that I rarely write by hand now. My right hand gets cramped and tired quickly, too, which is a distressing sensation. I used to be able to take down copious notes in college, with a penmanship my friends said was font-like, and I mourn the loss of that ability. I thought that maybe the kind of pen I'm using could have an effect on my grip; I do have trouble with thicker pens, and ballpoint pens with rough tips, but that shouldn't matter so much. Maybe if I wrote more slowly, too, because the motion gets noticeably jerkier if I'm not consciously slowing down.
... Maybe if I took up calligraphy? Does that have a proven positive effect? I don't want to be a poseur taking up calligraphy writing just because it sounds posh haha.
I've already broken the first two lmao. I've yet to see if I can pull off the third, but maybe my current mincing pace will improve once I get used to writing again.
Of course, I keep telling myself that there's still the rest of the year to make up for it.
I dropped from SC last December, and thus ended my three-year fixation with LJ/DWRP. For the longest time I was determined to stick with the game until it officially ended, but the people I enjoyed playing with the most just started leaving one after another, and one evening I suddenly realized that I wasn't having fun anymore.
I don't regret it, all that time I poured into this one hobby. I made some good friends, had a lot of fun, and will be leaving unfinished, unresolved storylines for my characters--I was emotionally invested in a lot of ways, and an attachment like that can't be discounted. What I do regret is failing to manage my time such that I was doing nothing but this one thing at the expense of everything else. I'm going to fix that now.
A fourth resolution (that I actually only thought of just now) is to improve my deteriorating penmanship. One of my sisters gave me Starbucks' 2013 planner for Christmas, which I've decided to use as a personal journal for minutiae, stuff that I can't be bothered to blog about--and as I was writing down the first daily entries I realized how ugly my handwriting's become. Using a keyboard for everything--writing, work, communication--means that I rarely write by hand now. My right hand gets cramped and tired quickly, too, which is a distressing sensation. I used to be able to take down copious notes in college, with a penmanship my friends said was font-like, and I mourn the loss of that ability. I thought that maybe the kind of pen I'm using could have an effect on my grip; I do have trouble with thicker pens, and ballpoint pens with rough tips, but that shouldn't matter so much. Maybe if I wrote more slowly, too, because the motion gets noticeably jerkier if I'm not consciously slowing down.
... Maybe if I took up calligraphy? Does that have a proven positive effect? I don't want to be a poseur taking up calligraphy writing just because it sounds posh haha.
