PascalPistachios @ PascalPistachios @beehaw.org Posts 4Comments 10Joined 2 yr. ago
I'm glad!! It's a quiet place here, so every voice really counts, and posting when you can is really the best thing you can do for a small community like this :)
Yeah. When you write you end up having to prove to yourself that you're a good writer. It's sort of an ego thing, and when you make something bad you sorta worry that it will reflect poorly on you.
I don't expect anything to ever fully cut through that anxiety. But providing a space to be "bad" in is something valuable.
Genuinely. If you're not comfortable posting your writing, I'd still be more than delighted to send some activities, fuck it, I'll post one now that I stole from Zoe Bee. It's where you take the meaning of a sentence and try to write it's inverse. So, like, "The dog was sleeping on the ground" becomes "The cat was awake in the roof" or what have you. Ofc it works better with more complex sentences but yeah.
Sorry, got taken away there. Prone to tangents. But yes. You don't have to post something complete if you can't manage it. And you sure as hell don't have to post something good. This is, after all, a silly little forum post.
Do whatever you please, it can be bad or good. But being bad is also, yes, the point. Your shitty writing is not only welcome, it's also the guest of honour and I'm kissing it on its lips.
I'm a very flitty sort of person, and can be pushed off balance decently easily. My job is pretty fast paced, so I can't just go for a walk or meditate for 10 minutes. So my rule is to not focus on everything coming up, but just focus on what's directly in front of me. Which, yeah, I know sounds dumb but it honestly does work.
Instead of thinking "Oh, that line of customers is long" -> "Oh god I'm not going to be able to serve the customers fast enough" -> "oh my god they're going to leave and I'm going to get in trouble for not being fast enough."
I don't even acknowledge the length of the line. Look directly ahead, and focus on what you're doing right now. Shit will always be coming in from every direction, but quick steps make for shorter journeys.
Outside of work, hobbies, crochet, gardening. Getting in touch with nature is a big one for me.
God, I. I don't know why, but just you bringing up the ability to have a post last for more than a few hours... It hit me for some reason.
I never really realized, but reddit always felt so fast, looking back. A constant, unending stream of novelty. And the only way to be heard was to get in before the rushing tide. It's nice here. I can reply to the people who talk. I'll post and people will engage, I can engage. It's obvious now but I can't believe I didn't notice for so long.
No worries at all mate, I'm just trying to keep communities active and happy, and posting "bad" writing is just a reason. The saying is to write everyday, not to write well everyday.
I honestly enjoyed this. Super cool to see you blend two of the ideas together. It honestly took far longer than I'd like to admit to realise who "A" was referring to, lmao.
Posted! Feel free to take a look :)
A weekly or even fortnightly writing group thread would be HUGELY good. Not only on an individual level, but also on a community level.
I'll echo the idea of "bad writing" being the goal. It's easy for everyone to get caught up in the big issue of "Is this good enough?" Vs "Am I having fun?"
I might actually make this my own weekly thing. Give me a bit and I'll make my own post on this.
Fantastic essay. Slightly tangential, but honestly so many new constructions with housing are just so wasteful. Luxury apartments designed to stay empty while some investor on the other side of the country owns it and waits to sell to the next sucker in line. Office buildings with extravagant and wasteful lobbies, serving no purpose other than the vanity of the developers.
Of course, we need higher density. The world can't be split into the extravagance and waste of skyscrapers and the drudgery and repetition of the suburb sprawl.
As I type this, I'm sitting in the empty lobby of an office building. A giant corporate sculpture is hanging above the concierge desk. The empty space and high ceiling could easily fit dozens of apartments. Not even thinking about the resources spent
It's just... A lot, when you start looking at offices and skyscrapers through this lens.