The memo-pad brain-cache idea sounds nifty! It's such a versatile tool since you can stick them wherever you want. Notes do feel like quite the chore at first, although the hard part for me was always thinking "I don't want to bother writing this down because I like the idea so much I'll definitely remember it later." which is historically false...! XD Just starting with little prompts as for what I want to do immediately next whenever I could do that was more than enough for me at the start, and then eventually I got into the habit of trying to add stuff like that when needed (although I still do forget a lot of the time!).
Casual reviews are always really nice! The "media logs" idea sounds lovely! I also find that they can be nice points for neat little discussions, which is a nice bonus. Formal reviews can be neat to put together too, but it definitely takes a bit more effort than just rambling about something XD
If you haven't seen them already, there's some comms here that mostly center around recommending things-- I've been enjoying the weekly posts at recthething lately, which is for rec-ing all types of fanworks. But there's also youtuberecs for YouTube videos, booknook for book reviews + weekly discussions, and fanifesto for fan manifestos ("Here's what this is and why you should look into it!" basically) -- if you ever want to try out cross-posting or want the reminder of weekly posts (in regards to recthething + booknook)!
It sounds like you've got a lot of pretty nice ideas for this journal, though! :D
Outside encouragement can be pretty motivating, I get that. It's definitely pulled me through a lot of things I didn't really have the intrinsic motivation to do before, thats for sure XD -- and even when I was self motivated, it's gotten me to finish things faster. I use to make a lot of fanart for a live, text based internet game -- and now that it's over (and it feels like theres less "time restraints" so to say) there's been a big adjustment period for me, as far as how often I make finished art pieces. I suppose It can be both good and bad, in that respect, :P but I do hope that the sense of that sort of accountability works for you the way you want it too here! \o/
And don't apologies for the length! (Especially when I reply with all this! XD)
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Casual reviews are always really nice! The "media logs" idea sounds lovely! I also find that they can be nice points for neat little discussions, which is a nice bonus. Formal reviews can be neat to put together too, but it definitely takes a bit more effort than just rambling about something XD
If you haven't seen them already, there's some comms here that mostly center around recommending things-- I've been enjoying the weekly posts at
It sounds like you've got a lot of pretty nice ideas for this journal, though! :D
Outside encouragement can be pretty motivating, I get that. It's definitely pulled me through a lot of things I didn't really have the intrinsic motivation to do before, thats for sure XD -- and even when I was self motivated, it's gotten me to finish things faster. I use to make a lot of fanart for a live, text based internet game -- and now that it's over (and it feels like theres less "time restraints" so to say) there's been a big adjustment period for me, as far as how often I make finished art pieces. I suppose It can be both good and bad, in that respect, :P but I do hope that the sense of that sort of accountability works for you the way you want it too here! \o/
And don't apologies for the length! (Especially when I reply with all this! XD)