Twisted Sanctuary

...you know, about that whole 10 fics in 10 days thing? Yeah, not gonna happen. Sorry about that. But if it's any consolation I have like 7 works in progress sitting incomplete on my google drive account right now that are not abandoned. Which is not the same as me promising that they'll all be finished someday, but you know, possibilities. 

Hope everyone's having a good weekend. 

Which is an ironic title, because the first essay I'm going to link to deals with things like world-view and value judgments about what is good and isn't. But that's why I love it. So there. It creates emotional resonance in me, therefor I think it's important.  

When World-Views Collide by Lois McMaster Bujold

Also of interest to me are these two by the same author: 

On Fan Fiction

and 

Writing Sex. 


You certainly don't have to read them, but mainly I'm posting them here so I don't lose them again. (Spent half the evening searching for the first one.) So I thought I'd share. Enjoy. :)

...Aaaaaaaaaaannnndddd done! Pencils up. Or you know something like that. Fingers off the keyboard, etc. This is it, last part finished. So it's all over except for the editing, and with one day to spare too.

Yay!

So I'm not finished, but I did make pretty good progress on this last part. I think it's going to be looooooong. It has a lot going on. Might as well be. Tomorrow! 

I left it this way for tonight so the progress would be comparative. I've almost reached my round about word count goal, but I've still got three more parts to write. Tomorrow night I'll probably change the word count thing if I can, so the percentages will be different again. But, still, yay, progress!

So, objectively I'm more or less where I wanted to be after a week. I've gotten the seventh part almost completed, with as it stands now, there being twelve total. But the only reason I'm still on track is because the first couple of days I was doing two parts a day. This is partly due to real life stuff and partly to me having to go off outline for a while, which always slows me down, and this just being the parts of the story that I find harder to write. Hopefully though I can still finish in time. 

I have company right now and they go home on Saturday. I don't know how much I'll be able to write that day since a lot of it will be tied up with travel, but hopefully after they leave I can start getting more written again. That and I think the writing will be easier by then again. I hope! 

Fingers crossed!

All I have to say about this is I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW!

That's the first three parts written and the fourth started. Of a very, very rough draft. Woo?

And since I'm messing up easy words like character names, I think I'm going to stop now.

 So, I'm doing NaNo this year. Or at least my version of it, taking advantage of fandom's general air of productiveness at that time to finish up something I've been putting off for a while. That's the plan as it stands now anyway. 

And then today I was talking to rysler and ended up with a plot bunny. I had sworn off starting a new fic until after NaNo, working on some drabbles I needed to finish up instead. But this plot bunny ate my brain and before I knew it, I was writing out an outline. And noting that if I wrote one part a day, I could finish just in time to start NaNo. 

For some people this is no biggie. For me...well, lets just say I got jammed on the last two thirds of the last part of the fic I just finished writing and ended up staring at a blank page for three weeks attempting to finish the damn thing. 

But I'm attempting it anyway.  Heh. 

So far, so good? Prepare to see me crash and burn tomorrow. Or feel free to bug me about it. Either one.




Edit - I should say that I don't actually have a word count goal. Just I have enough parts that I know it would be easy for me to hit that number of words, so to give a guestimate of my progress I went with that.

1. Give me the name of a female character. I need ten. Preferably a character that I at least know what show it's from.

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10.


2. Then I'll write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers.


Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1!

( Prompts )