Reading

AWS outage

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

Entry tags:

hftmt,
writing

Quick writing update

Following up briefly on Friday's post...

I half-succeeded! I finished a fic. It sort of functions as the prequel to (though it's chronologically later than) the PWP that I originally set out to write. Said PWP's scenes are outlined, which isn't nothing, but they've been to prone to changing up on me, so I eye them with a certain distrust.

Fingers crossed, though! I do feel like I've gotten a better handle on the characters' voices, so perhaps that'll make the rest come easier.

Entry tags:

hftmt,
writing

This weekend's writing goals

I have few obligations this weekend and also have Monday off, so I'll be trying my damnedest to finish my Tomblain/Baron fic in the next few days. It's been multiple cycles of brainstorming, writing, canon-reviewing, and deciding to scrap or fundamentally restructure what I wrote. (This was supposed to be a quick light-hearted PWP and I have written not a word of smut nor indeed the featured couple interacting at all.) But, I think/hope that I've got a good grasp of what I want the fic to be like, at last. Wrote over 1k today and it seems like this time it'll stick.

Hopefully you will hear from me again on Tuesday, celebrating the completion of a draft, even if it's a rough one.