untonuggan: A Japanese schoolgirl overlooking a harbor and a figure with wings (Choice)
This is the first time I've been on the computer since Sunday night, which may not seem like a long time who doesn't have an umbilical cord attached to the internet. I also haven't written anything since Sunday, which is frustrating since I have a lot of ideas.

I have fibromyalgia, a condition that causes chronic pain and fatigue. I'd been doing fairly well, but somehow my body completely rebelled on Monday. Maybe because I was on the computer a lot, and I might have re-aggravated some foot issues by walking for exercise? Who knows.

I hate all that lesson-learned from disability crap. I may have learned something during my daily experience with a series of medical issues, but that doesn't mean it's a great trade-off. /rant

However, I did come up with a short story idea based on medical issues that has me giggling to myself. It's fantasy-satire. I don't want to spoil it. I may end up using if for [community profile] remix_goes_wild . Who knows?

Now I just have to wait until my hands will let me do the writing. They're still a little tender.
untonuggan: Lily and Chance squished in a cat pile-up on top of a cat tree (buff tabby, black cat with red collar) (Default)
aka, a short story I just wrote. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I even showed it to my mom (who is notoriously critical of anything I create), and she liked it. I've been wanting to write something involving the Crystal Palace and human zoos for awhile now, and I think I finally worked it in without sounding preachy. (Note to self: check exact exhibitions involved in the Crystal Palace.)

Anyway, it brings me to an interesting quandary about what to do with my work. I want to make it accessible to as many people as possible. I wrote it, I'm proud of it! The internet is pretty damn accessible, and I like releasing it "DRM-free" so to speak.

On the other hand, it would be really cool to be "published-published." I've submitted a few poems and am waiting the requisite amount of months for the first round of what will probably be rejection letters. (I'm cool with that.) Most of the magazines/journals I'm submitting to allow me to repost my work once it's been published. So there's technically no harm in submitting things, and then reposting them here if I feel like it. (Of course, it can take a year before they publish the damn thing.)

I'm writing a novel (slowly), and I think that is probably going to go online and be crowdfunded (if I'm lucky). I'm not feeling the book publishing industry at the moment...

What are other peoples' thoughts? What do you do with your "creative writing"?

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