Going to do the boy band story again but printing instead of cursive. Taking photos of the pages aside, I really should hook up the scanner for my writing notes, it's at the stage where I need to work on getting things across like what the characters and locations look like. I have to remember I have the sin of knowledge having spent all these years with my stories where strangers haven't.
Altho I type daily on my blog and some posts can run long the typing of the stories, unless the draft is to be copied word for word, is one of those tasks where I have to make sure I don't go all hyper fixated on and stress out my back and the neck fuckwaffle I injured during my TBI. Most of the time when I consider a story ready to be typed that still means I have editing to do, adding things, and formatting.
Not too long ago I remembered that I have a pocket computer, I did not grow up with a phone and have literally only had one for six years altho I've had a tablet for many more, so instead of carrying all my writing notes around incase I no clipped in to the backrooms I took photos of my writing notes. Now I can just carry what ever particular story I'm working on at the time.
And while printing by hand also has its physical discomforts as I just wrote on the few pages I've already done where I need to describe more or rearrange a few situations it also makes me have to spend more time with the story.
A lot of y'all with your writing apps and just let AI do it have never sat with a pen(cil) and paper and physically written something for pleasure and it shows. The picture might be for Grease 2 fan fiction but it still counts.
I'm going to let some original stuff out eventually, I'm just trying to figure out where exactly I want to host the pdfs, I don't Google because they scrape, and dealing with the feelings that no one ever wanted to read anything I wrote anyway. So guess why I encourage other people with more self worth about their stuff to put it out there.
And the last time I shared something with someone who never ever got to see anything I ever wrote, drew or created again was out of 300,000 words they only said something about cemetery which was used twice to denote where the main characters turned on a street. So yeah, it's hard to make myself believe anyone would ever want to read my fiction so why the hell would I want it to happen to someone else?
Or there's the situation where my longest story, of which a previous draft would like a beta reader for, has a lesbian as the protagonist. After one draft about 10 years ago that did fix some signs of the times it was initially written in I've gone on to make further revisions trying to keep the mild LGB without the rest of the alphabet because I don't want what is essentially a tom boy character misread as a trans man because she's not. It's kind of a situation like in Tootsie and that's the best I can put it.
Time for a second cup of coffee and making sure the opening scene about them being like a piano store has the right rhythm.