Fic, coming soon!
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lonetreadSo, I won NaNo. Progress on NCT for thirty days straight. One day my progress was hardly progress (hardly anything), but what the heck, I'm counting it.
And the progress actually helped! The last couple of days I listed out and numbered all the scenes I'm going to need (because the day before, I decided I'd write it in scenes rather than trying to make it one big huge epic. So, something closer to "Sam I Am", rather than what it was probably gonna end up like ("Motivations" [three chapters that ended up as one short one] or "Tracks" [still not finished], neither of which are happy endings). This means it's going to be a lot shorter than it really deserves, but hopefully that at least it'll get finished, because I've already written more parts of it than I thought I had. :)
Besides NCT, I've written a mostly-terrible MTF!Neal fic that I intend to rewrite at some point. Then of course there's that one's related RPF bunny that I hope to write as well. And besides all that, new Samverse is coming! I was inspired this morning, and it turned out crappily, but I've rewritten crap in that 'verse before and had it turn out all right, so we shall see.
And the progress actually helped! The last couple of days I listed out and numbered all the scenes I'm going to need (because the day before, I decided I'd write it in scenes rather than trying to make it one big huge epic. So, something closer to "Sam I Am", rather than what it was probably gonna end up like ("Motivations" [three chapters that ended up as one short one] or "Tracks" [still not finished], neither of which are happy endings). This means it's going to be a lot shorter than it really deserves, but hopefully that at least it'll get finished, because I've already written more parts of it than I thought I had. :)
Besides NCT, I've written a mostly-terrible MTF!Neal fic that I intend to rewrite at some point. Then of course there's that one's related RPF bunny that I hope to write as well. And besides all that, new Samverse is coming! I was inspired this morning, and it turned out crappily, but I've rewritten crap in that 'verse before and had it turn out all right, so we shall see.
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Date: 2009-12-02 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-02 02:11 am (UTC)PS, nice icon.
PPS, friended back.
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Date: 2009-12-02 02:42 am (UTC)NaNo was so different for me this year. I started off with this high expectation, and I think I made it more 'work' than it should have been. I'm actually not sorry at all that I lost, which is also weird for me.
The previous years, I was much like you were above; getting to 50k was the easy part, by and large, it was getting to the rest of the story that caught me up.
Yay for friending; be warned that I can occasionally get spammy. I don't think there's evidence of it yet, but it's been known to happen. :D
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Date: 2009-12-02 04:19 am (UTC)Lol, lucky you. Me, that number I want to get to on the 30th is more like 20 or 25K. But who knows? Maybe next year.
No problem with the flist spamming; I've actually been pretty bad lately about keeping up with my flist at all, sorry to say.
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Date: 2009-12-02 06:22 am (UTC)I've never even tried to do NaNo--mostly because SR's the longest thing I've *ever* written and it's a) only about 15,000-something words and b) took about six weeks to write.
Also, zerawolfe7's reaction to SitD (that the show pretty much ships Dean/Carter even if *she's* not too sure about it) amused me.
And going scenewise for a big huge fic often works better, at least for me. Unexpected is basically a collection of linked ficlets/scenes except for the snapshot epilogue, and SR kind of is too only without the epilogue (and it was definitely *written* scenewise).
The trans!Neal fic bits of Neal and Elizabeth friendship you mentioned earlier sound like they'll work well given revision (because them being BFFs, whether or not they're 2/3 of an OT3, is really cool and pretty IC). I'm a little surprised you went MTF, because Neal's pretty enough to have started out as a girl parts-wise imo.
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Date: 2009-12-02 08:53 pm (UTC)Best of luck with Trinity; sounds like fun.
Yeah, I'm the same way, but I still try every couple years or so. Generally by about the 15th I've scaled back my goal from "50K" to "better than the last time I lost my mind and attempted this". (And I've always at least beat my old record when I tried to -- from 16.8K words [of total hilarious crack -- which I love talking about, so if you want details...! :)] in November 2007 to 23K or so [collection of unrelated little fics in response to every bunny I could come up with the month before] this past July. Of course, the fact that I did it in July might have had something to do with that, too! School, sigh.)
I thought you'd appreciate that; it amused me too.
That's good to hear. I definitely think it'll help me write it, but I still feel kind of bad at all the length I know I'll be sacrificing. Just gotta keep reminding myself that all the length in the world is no good if it stays in my head.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that, but I'm pretty excited about it, so hopefully I can make it all work. And yeah, I had that thought too, but that muse hasn't shown up yet (good grief, this one's talkative, though -- I'd opened Word fully intending to write RPF, and I wrote a page and then 15 minutes later realized what had happened, lol). These bunnies tend to come in pairs, so I expect I'll end up giving that one a go eventually, too.