So as mentioned before, I’m going to do my own Nanowrimo this month, since it didn’t work out the way I had hoped last month. My post about this over on AO3 garnered a great deal of joy and excitement which really touched me deeply! As such I’ve decided to explore a few ideas this December.
Own your own awesomeness. This is something that I came up with years ago at a party I was at in regards to a friend of mine. The more I’m on tumblr the more important I think it is for people, myself included, to own their own awesomeness. It’s not bragging. It’s not saying that you’re the best or better than anyone else. It’s all about recognizing that you do things that are pretty damn fantastic and that that is a great thing that should be celebrated. As the saying goes, don’t hide your light under a bushel. More on this topic to come as the month continues.
Daily dedications. As a part of the whole ‘own your own awesomeness’ thing, I’m going to start trying to do just that for myself. I have a hard time doing this because I was raised to believe that “bragging” is bad. This is why I feel I really need to work on this, because by constantly putting myself down and belittling the things that I do, I am literally starving myself emotionally. So this month I hope you’ll bear with me because I’m going to be sharing not just my word counts on a daily basis, but nice things that the AO3 people have said to me, with each daily word count increase being dedicated to that individual.
Whew! Man, I’m already a little anxious about this plan! But I need to give it a try and see what happens. Hopefully, good things will come forth!
Go, Mamishka!
I am all for people doing a bit more of their own horn-tooting! You deserve to take pleasure in your hard work and in having it complimented!