EOM Writing Stats - August 2019
Forgot to post this at the start of the month! In my defense, I was finally working after a long dry spell. It was only a few weeks temping BUT STILL. It worked well enough to get me my mortgage which gets my ex out of the house, not yet but soon. I mean, we still get along but he doesn't want to be here any more and I'd kind of like my space, thank you. Now I need a new job but I've got contingencies, a second interview I'm pretty sure is just a formality coming up, and enough set by for a few weeks so I'll be ok. Poor, but ok.
Anyway, on with the stats.
End of Month (EOM) Stats
Target/DayAverage/DayTotal Words/MonthTarget/MonthDifference1,6671,37242,52750,000-7,473
Fic I Finished in August
Keeping Warm - Day 1 of AU Yeah August 2019, a little Bluestreak/Hound ficlet for pipermca
Fifty Drabbles from Fifty Prompts - Fifty true drabbles from fifty prompts written to celebrate the fiftieth title I've posted under the Transformers - All Media Types tag on AO3. Pretty much just an experiment.
Secured - Day 3 of AU Yeah August 2019.
For Love Reforms Vitality - I wanted to play more in the universe of In Every Voice He'd Ever Had so I wrote Jazz and Prowl's origins and first death/not death and reunion.
All the Good Things - It's so weird to look at the cotton candy (sweet fluff) piece this became compared to the very first draft with a severely depressed Prowl with a borderline eating disorder, neglected by his guardian and basically ignored by any and every authority figure whose supposed to be helping him. I stripped thousands of words out of this and rewrote it a few times to get to the end product. I was working out a lot of my own issues on this one and wound up not particularly wanting to put them on display. But, I did feel better once I got that darker rough draft done so - free therapy, I guess.
A Beneficial Arrangement - I decided to play more with the Mirage/Megatron arranged-marriage-to-shut-up-the-rebel AU from last year. I want to continue this one, I'm just not sure where it could go yet.
AU Yeah August - Drabbles - So far, there are four entries in this, days 2, 5, 6 and 8, and I'm not sure how many more there will be. Depends on
what I can keep short and what blossoms out of control.
Open Offers - Day 6 of AYA 2019, decided to write Perceptor/Jazz just 'cause.
A Meeting on the Sprawl - Transformers/Dead Space fusion written for the 2019 intoabar fic challenge.
The Emperor's New Plating - A Transformers version of The Emperor's New Clothes requested by the guest commenter I've nicknamed Fairy Tale Anon.
Balance - So, possible-demon!Jazz and Enforcer!Bluestreak from Trope Bingo Round 12 decided they wanted my attention again and that they should be a series. Thus, Systematic Chaos was born. (Because if I can name a series after a Dream Theater album, I will. ^_^) I don't know how they're going to solve the murders but I do know that Prowl's a warrior monk of sorts in this one.
Day 13, Horror, of AU Yeah August is finished but unpublished, a little Knock Out/Breakdown drabble.
WIPs
AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - I haven't forgotten it! But working full time after not doing so for a while, plus some personal stuff, drained me and gave me less time than usual to write so it's still ongoing. One year I may finish this challenge in August, but 2019 is not that year. Not helped that the entry I'm caught up on, Day 12, is pretty much just smut and I didn't want to write it at work.
Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019 - Short fics, minimum 500 words (except for #1 where I wasn't aware of the minimum) that I'm almost keeping up with!
A handful of other stuff, including Assassin AU 7, Wizard AU 8, Principatus 3, and Enclave 4, that are technically on hold but that I'll work on if I have time/inspiration during AU Yeah August.
An original horror fic that I'm mentioning here to shame myself into trying to finish it, even though it didn't work last month. Might try and sell this one, we'll see how it goes.
Anyway, on with the stats.
End of Month (EOM) Stats
Target/DayAverage/DayTotal Words/MonthTarget/MonthDifference1,6671,37242,52750,000-7,473
Fic I Finished in August
Keeping Warm - Day 1 of AU Yeah August 2019, a little Bluestreak/Hound ficlet for pipermca
Fifty Drabbles from Fifty Prompts - Fifty true drabbles from fifty prompts written to celebrate the fiftieth title I've posted under the Transformers - All Media Types tag on AO3. Pretty much just an experiment.
Secured - Day 3 of AU Yeah August 2019.
For Love Reforms Vitality - I wanted to play more in the universe of In Every Voice He'd Ever Had so I wrote Jazz and Prowl's origins and first death/not death and reunion.
All the Good Things - It's so weird to look at the cotton candy (sweet fluff) piece this became compared to the very first draft with a severely depressed Prowl with a borderline eating disorder, neglected by his guardian and basically ignored by any and every authority figure whose supposed to be helping him. I stripped thousands of words out of this and rewrote it a few times to get to the end product. I was working out a lot of my own issues on this one and wound up not particularly wanting to put them on display. But, I did feel better once I got that darker rough draft done so - free therapy, I guess.
A Beneficial Arrangement - I decided to play more with the Mirage/Megatron arranged-marriage-to-shut-up-the-rebel AU from last year. I want to continue this one, I'm just not sure where it could go yet.
AU Yeah August - Drabbles - So far, there are four entries in this, days 2, 5, 6 and 8, and I'm not sure how many more there will be. Depends on
what I can keep short and what blossoms out of control.
Open Offers - Day 6 of AYA 2019, decided to write Perceptor/Jazz just 'cause.
A Meeting on the Sprawl - Transformers/Dead Space fusion written for the 2019 intoabar fic challenge.
The Emperor's New Plating - A Transformers version of The Emperor's New Clothes requested by the guest commenter I've nicknamed Fairy Tale Anon.
Balance - So, possible-demon!Jazz and Enforcer!Bluestreak from Trope Bingo Round 12 decided they wanted my attention again and that they should be a series. Thus, Systematic Chaos was born. (Because if I can name a series after a Dream Theater album, I will. ^_^) I don't know how they're going to solve the murders but I do know that Prowl's a warrior monk of sorts in this one.
Day 13, Horror, of AU Yeah August is finished but unpublished, a little Knock Out/Breakdown drabble.
WIPs
AU Yeah AUgust 2019 - I haven't forgotten it! But working full time after not doing so for a while, plus some personal stuff, drained me and gave me less time than usual to write so it's still ongoing. One year I may finish this challenge in August, but 2019 is not that year. Not helped that the entry I'm caught up on, Day 12, is pretty much just smut and I didn't want to write it at work.
Prowl x Jazz Anniversary Challenge 2019 - Short fics, minimum 500 words (except for #1 where I wasn't aware of the minimum) that I'm almost keeping up with!
A handful of other stuff, including Assassin AU 7, Wizard AU 8, Principatus 3, and Enclave 4, that are technically on hold but that I'll work on if I have time/inspiration during AU Yeah August.
An original horror fic that I'm mentioning here to shame myself into trying to finish it, even though it didn't work last month. Might try and sell this one, we'll see how it goes.