WIP progress - Lovers in Arms

[philomytha]

I've had two full nights of sleep in a row and am feeling like I might be conscious and aware of the world around me again (the four previous nights involved rather less than four hours of sleep each). And so I shall start being annoying making regular updates on my progress with my longfics that have to be done before the end of the year. This

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[avanti_90]

Good luck with your fic! It is beginning to sound even more Honor Harrington than before. Both of mine have done absolutely nothing for the last two days; I discovered interesting murder mysteries to read instead.
And WIP progress reports from people are not annoying. Not at all.

[philomytha]

It is beginning to sound even more Honor Harrington than before

I hope that's a good thing! I'm almost at the end of this chapter now, though it's very rough-drafty still.

And I feel in need of some external support for getting this done as well as the pleasant uptick on the word count number, so progress reports it is. :-)

[carmarthen]

Oooh, I am intrigued.

And also glad I'm not the only one who usually writes the cool bits and stitches them together. :-P

[philomytha]

Oh yes. Writing linearly is really hard, but on the plus side, you have a pleasing sense of accomplishment much sooner on, because you can look at the fic and realise that you've written a prologue and four proper chapters instead of twenty random scenes that don't fit together very well. I still do keep having to go back and fix the continuity when I get better ideas, since I only have a vague outline for the whole thing, but this is the first fic where I could almost post it as a WIP if I were that way inclined.

[carmarthen]

I think there are pros and cons either way, but for long fic it does seem to be more daunting to stitch scenes together. (A lot of the time I write for a while, skip ahead to the end to give myself something to write towards, and then go back and keep going forward.)