I have accomplished something!
I made it; it wasn't hard
The mission I have assigned to myself this summer is to finish all my fanfiction in progress (except, of course, for Pemberley, which I consider to be different because some people get things like this published and get paid for them). Because of my spectacular job, I have actually been able to keep with my deadlines the majority of the time.
At the beginning of the summer, I was thinking of just stopping work on Star Wars fics, despite the fact that I hate when people start things and then don't finish them ever. There were two in progress: one of them I had posted about eight chapters of, and the other I'd written a chapter of and not posted at all. Then I watched The Legacy of Star Wars a couple of times on the History Channel, and it prompted me to dig up the chapters I'd already written of Requiem. And I thought.... Damn. I really have to finish this. To give myself closure, if nothing else.
And if I was going to finish Requiem, I'd have to finish Idylls too, because the two projects have always sort of gone hand in hand in my mind (if my mind had hands, that is).
So that has been my main project of the summer. I worked on Requiem every other day for weeks... until yesterday. Because yesterday I FINISHED THE ROUGH DRAFT OF REQUIEM! I actually FINISHED it! I AM AWESOME!
Requiem is a series of vignettes dealing with different characters' points of view on the death of Padmé Amidala. It's different from anything I've done before, and it's been a great characters and writing voice exercise.
I had been working on this thing for about two years. And now it's done.
...Well, not completely done. I still have to edit them all. I feel like I could put a lot more into the last few chapters, but some of them went really well-- Leia's and Pooja's I'm quite proud of. But I think that I can start posting them now. And next week I will get back to Idylls.
This is the first time I've actually finished something in a long, long time.
This week I'm going to keep alternating between Pemberley and a rather silly project I'll call Cursed Pirates of the Caribbean (CPotC) for short, because it's full title is really long and I think I've mentioned it before anyway.
On this momentous occasion I would like to thank the song "Oh What a Circus" from Evita and the movie The Queen for giving me little boosts at the right moments.