Anonymous Fic Updates - Tumblr Posts
Slow going with the writing, slow going with the blogging
I keep meaning to post more, but then I get distracted with writing the "current" WIP. I'm probably around 13k words in now, which is several thousand more than I originally thought, and it's only about half-done. (I currently think it's going to be in the ballpark of 25k - ish?)
I might be attacked by the spirit of the red pen and cut it down some in the end... but I doubt it. (I keep editing what I have done; I'm pretty sure it's better than it was before, but I put in as much as I take out in the end.)
Still, I'm telling myself I'm this far in, I have to finish and post it eventually!
In any case, thought I'd post some little bits like this as "anonymous fic updates" so I can look back and remember what it was like working on this.
Woke up at 5AM thinking about my current WIP chapter and suddenly realized what was subconsciously bugging me about the scene I was writing, in a "how did I miss that" kind of way.
Thought about it for hours; completely rewrote half a dozen paragraphs.
I like it better now...
There's still something bugging me, but I figure I'll fix it in rewrites.
On a related note -- kinda worried about what this means for my media comprehension skills. I've watched that scene a dozen times, and only now just caught on... it's a fairly subtle thing, but was I just oblivious or am I getting too deep in a headcanons-upon-headcanons sense?
(Note to self in case I forget about this later... this is the part to do with metallurgy)
Woke up at 5AM thinking about my current WIP chapter and suddenly realized what was subconsciously bugging me about the scene I was writing, in a "how did I miss that" kind of way.
Thought about it for hours; completely rewrote half a dozen paragraphs.
I like it better now...
There's still something bugging me, but I figure I'll fix it in rewrites.
Incredibly, incredibly happy because I finally got my POV character to call one of my faves an asshole.
(It's necessary, for plot reasons. It's justified, even.
But it hurt so much to write… and now I love it.)
Writing is weird.
Currently using Bear.app for the Markdown, auto-save, tagging, and wiki-style linking capabilities. I've got one note per chapter, with all of my planning docs indexed and cross-referenced. The tagging and search are coming in handy.
(I have 47 notes in the tag for my current fic, so far, only 10 of which are actual chapters. 👀 The rest are snippet files, outlines, observational notes, cuttings, etc.)
It auto-saves, I can back it all up in Markdown and bring back individual files, and I can select the whole tag to back up at once (which I do every couple of days).
(So, um... still slightly unhinged but in the opposite direction to writing in the AO3 text editor, I guess.)
plz reblog for science
Just finished the first draft of what I think of as Chapter 9, out of what should be (I think) 16-17 chapters. (It'll be Chapter 10 when it's published, but the prologue chapter is very short.)
When I started this, I think I was guessing it would be about 7.5k, then I thought it would be about 15k. I'm now somewhere around 16.5k**, which I think might be longer than any piece I've written solo for anything. And I'm currently guessing it will end up somewhere in the range of 30k, which is super weird to think about, since that's longer than things I've done for group projects.
And this is where I remind myself that I first tried to speedrun writing the whole thing over Memorial Day weekend.
** counting only full chapter drafts and not snippets assigned to unfinished chapters
And a in a belated update:
I added a new chapter to the outline, but only after arguing with myself about it, making myself justify its inclusion in the fic, and writing a "quick" outline sketch (of about 1,000 words).
But wasn't it, I argued with myself, awfully self-indulgent? Wasn't I just trying to make myself feel better about writing the upcoming whump sandwich?
And the answer is yes, and yes, and I'm keeping it!
(If only because the fic could use a moment of contrast somewhere among the scheduled lineup of guilt, angst, pain, and grief.)**
** I originally did not think this fic was going to have an angst tag. Ha!
Tried to do too much last week (thought I was on top of everything, and then new things kept popping up). Now I'm fighting my way out of sleep debt. :-/
Finally got a chance to read back through the fic again for the first time in a while, though.
I made minor edits to every single chapter, but I'm feeling good about it again -- the only areas I think need significant rewrites are on the recent two, and I'm planning to do those after I write the next two chapters so I know for sure where I'm going with them. (That leaves me with about 40% left to write, but hey, getting closer!)
Also, I officially added another chapter to the outline. Again. (Whee!)