behind-the-meals

a salacious look into the meals

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secondary blog to talk about @meals without naming who I am


Hi there!

I wanted to have a place to say out-of-character things relating to @meals, while keeping that page anonymous. Let's start with something that's been chewing me right up.

@meals was started as a way to try to anchor myself into a daily routine, by setting an alarm to wake up, and an alarm that I had to have a new post done by, every day, before I could do anything else. As you can imagine, that was actually a terrible idea and I burnt myself out and lost that routine.

However, @meals is my favourite writing project to work on, ever, and I want to try again with it while still using it for my daily routine. I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to achieve this from any writer on cohost who is more experienced with serialized writing, and I also have a vague idea of how I might achieve this.

The outline of this idea has potential spoilers related to elements of @meals that some people may wish to avoid, if they're enjoying @meals so far.

This vague idea is as follows: A 3-day cycle, advanced 5 days a week.

On day 1, I spend time working out details related to the story in the tags, figure out where the story will go on the next post, and decide if the next post will be a recipe with a story in tags, a "corporate blog update", or something new. If the post will be a recipe with more story in the tags, then I will choose some basic details of the tags for the next post.

On day 2, I do a different thing depending whether I will be writing a recipe, blog update, or something different. If I am writing a recipe, then I pick what the recipe will be for, and if it's actually food then I make sure I remember how to make that food. If it's not food then I make up a recipe for whatever it is. If I'm writing a blog update, then I work out what the update will contain, in vague terms, and whether I'll be writing in corpospeak or mealstongue.

Finally, on day 3, I will write the actual post body and post it.

This would repeat, with two days of every week designated as days when I don't have to do any meals work. Maybe 3 days (4-day work week)? I am not quite sure, I do have an actual job so it might be a good idea to keep the amount I'm working on @meals low, even though setting up daily routines will help a lot with getting work done at my actual job (a freelancing gig with only deadlines).

I am looking for feedback on this!


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