I'm trying to figure out some programs to function on here, but without a drawing board Krita is trash.

I usually use Gimp of Sketchbook to do art or I have a few apps on my phone that I'll play with.

It the same user name I use on here for gaia

I was just thinking of downloading gimp.

Also, I sent you both a friend request on gaia

Sailor Star Rainbow = Next time I'm on Gaia I'll accept it. ^^

Same goes for you Kat! And I like the chinese? username.

It's Chinese, yeah.
As per usual, my username is taken from one of my characters. I wanted something really different on Gaia though since I didn't intend to have everyone and their mom know it was me. Just people I chose to tell.

Makes sense.

I just chose a ranom name from a book I had lying around the house. I wanted something that was just the one word though,

I AM FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH CAMP NANO AGAIN!!

Oh man. I'm still so behind on my nano journey and I'm only aiming for 20k!

I tell myself I want to write, but in reality it's time for a new distraction.

The truggle is very real

Having a week off has definitely helped though. I wish I could have another week away from work! Going back is going to be really hard.

I've got a confession .. I didn't even think about doing Camp Nano this year. >.<

Das okay X'D. I'm not doing a particularly strenous one myself, tbh.

lol I mean, writing should be pleasurable, not stressful!

I've just been puttering around with different stories, but not really finishing any of them as usual

Finishing stories is too hard. I don't understand how some writers churn out hundreds of them in a lifetime.

Yeah ... I'm thinking of extremely prolific romance writers especially.

Riiiight? Especially since that's my genre of choice. I can come up with and write a lot of stories, but I rarely finish and most of them are garbage. Editing and all that too? Meeeeh.

And then there are serial thriller writers who also seem to have so many books.

And then you've got me, this aspiring author who's got too many stories in her head to get down on paper XP

That's what I should be doing! Problem is most of my stories are fan fics and I swore I would never be that person.

I write so much fanfiction too but I'm also that person who thinks it's totally valid to turn all of them into original fiction later. I will be writing a fic and thinking, 'this is nice. I think if I tried to publish this, it might fly.'

I have too many story ideas I need to finish, or decide to completely dismiss. All of them original fiction, because I just love creating my own worlds...

Honestly, I've never tried writing fanfiction

I like to ask the 'what if' and create an entire story built upon the stepping stone of something that already exists. I usually write canon characters in modern stories, especially if it's something all tragic and angsty like Attack on Titan or The Untamed. It's a bit easier to use the skeleton of something rather than building it all from scratch.

A modern Untamed sounds absolutely amazing ...