This week in Audrey World: 9
Jun. 3rd, 2018 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
audrey_eeeAfter coming back from WisCon, I had a follow-up appointment with my doctor about the ADHD diagnosis (moderate inattentive with minor hyperactivity). I told her I wanted to try Ritalin, so I am. I had to take a urine test and I'm also required to do an EKG sometime in the near future and I sent my doctor a note to say my heart rate is fine and I don't feel like I'm going to explode. So far I'd say the main effect is that when I take it, I stop checking Twitter every five minutes. This afternoon I'm going to examine the impact on housecleaning. I can increase the dose in a couple of days.
One of my big goals for this is to be able to write more consistently day-to-day. I was doing a weekly essay for about a year and a half that gave me a lot of focus, but I started to feel like I wasn't getting as much out of it anymore. I have some bigger projects to dig into now and I'd like to just do it. The material is in my head, and I don't have a lot of writer's block, just a tendency to sit here and think "I'm tired, so can I do something easier?"
I've been thinking about how I used to write a lot of fiction, and while I doubt it was very good fiction, it was still a practice. There's something here parallel to how I can draw and paint reasonably well, but most days even coloring is hard. I've shelved the art problem for later when I want to focus on it in therapy, but I have a feeling I can take a crack at fiction writing again. I'm a much better storyteller now than I was, there's just a odd break in the middle between talking about things I observed directly and things I can imagine.
So that's why I'm alternating writing a paragraph with setting up Dropbox (again — I uninstalled the app a while ago due to a combination of performance and security issues). I want to use Scrivener on the event planning book, for the initial drafts, and I thought I'd also try a "100 days of my life as fiction" thing an acquaintance is doing. In order to use it on multiple computers, including iOS, you have to sync with Dropbox (not iCloud, alas). For me to actually use this and not Google Docs (which I'm trying to get rid of but it's going to be a slow process) I need it on multiple devices. So... maybe I need more caffeine for this.
This week is my last ASL class in the current session (I'm going to miss the end field trip because I'll be at Allied Media). I'm definitely going on to the next one. I also have a NET meeting and the neighborhood association and it's something every night this week. This will be fine, right?
One of my big goals for this is to be able to write more consistently day-to-day. I was doing a weekly essay for about a year and a half that gave me a lot of focus, but I started to feel like I wasn't getting as much out of it anymore. I have some bigger projects to dig into now and I'd like to just do it. The material is in my head, and I don't have a lot of writer's block, just a tendency to sit here and think "I'm tired, so can I do something easier?"
I've been thinking about how I used to write a lot of fiction, and while I doubt it was very good fiction, it was still a practice. There's something here parallel to how I can draw and paint reasonably well, but most days even coloring is hard. I've shelved the art problem for later when I want to focus on it in therapy, but I have a feeling I can take a crack at fiction writing again. I'm a much better storyteller now than I was, there's just a odd break in the middle between talking about things I observed directly and things I can imagine.
So that's why I'm alternating writing a paragraph with setting up Dropbox (again — I uninstalled the app a while ago due to a combination of performance and security issues). I want to use Scrivener on the event planning book, for the initial drafts, and I thought I'd also try a "100 days of my life as fiction" thing an acquaintance is doing. In order to use it on multiple computers, including iOS, you have to sync with Dropbox (not iCloud, alas). For me to actually use this and not Google Docs (which I'm trying to get rid of but it's going to be a slow process) I need it on multiple devices. So... maybe I need more caffeine for this.
This week is my last ASL class in the current session (I'm going to miss the end field trip because I'll be at Allied Media). I'm definitely going on to the next one. I also have a NET meeting and the neighborhood association and it's something every night this week. This will be fine, right?
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Date: 2018-06-03 07:46 pm (UTC)