Rambling about fic, sure!
I should be working on writing right now and maybe I'll be able to set myself down and focus after rambling here, if I'm lucky. (I think they forgot the peppermint in my peppermint hot chocolate, this is making me sad and has absolutely nothing to do with my inability to focus, I just felt like sharing.)
Have an idea for this week's prompt for the Poe Challenge, but I'm not sure if I want to fling myself into another week of typing like a fiend when the odds that I'm going to make it to the next round are super super super low. Ah well. I loved writing Suffocation and I'm proud of how it came out, which really, does matter more than advancing or anything else. It is just vaguely depressing to watch the poll numbers. (I should probably stop doing that, I think.)
Maybe I should write the third week's fic. It has a title, it has a plot, though I'm worried it'll want to be as long as Mercy, or longer, and that's pretty exhausting to write in a few days, get it edited and posted, because my productivity is generally way slower than that. On the other hand, it's nice to be productive and get things done and be around more fic-wise.
Maybe maybe maybe.
I should probably work on Slow Burn, since I updated Walk Through Shadow yesterday, though I admit, it's tempting to just finish Walk Through Shadow and get it done and gone before I do that, since that'd be one less fic on my plate to juggle. And then maybe I'll be able to focus on Something to Talk About again, which has been sorely neglected.
My fic goals for this year, for the longer stories are:
- finish Walk Through Shadow: only one chapter and maaaybe an epilogue left, but at the moment, I think the epilogue wants to be the final scene in the chapter, so... this is definitely the first thing I want to knock off my list, as it's the one that's closest to being done. Especially as the rough draft for the last chapter is already written. It just needs editing desperately. Lots of editing. [Shikamaru-centric]
- finish Something to Talk About: ten chapters to go in that one, but I need to reread what's already written and make sure my plotlines work right because I know I was having tricksy shifting plotlines while I was working on chapter 5 and that's one of the reasons it got shelved for a while. [Hanabi-centric, Hinata-centric]
- finish Slow Burn: which should be nineteen chapters total, though how many posts that'll be, I don't know. Slow Burn has the tendency to have some very long chapters (in the, it will be three posts long sense) and while I know that the current chapter I'm on is only going to be one post long, I'm worried some of them will be longer than three posts and in that case, that'd be over 25,000 words a chapter and I might cry because I will finish this fic this year. Which means at the least (if each chapter is only one part) I need to write another 50,000 words on it. I'm guessing it'll be more like another 80-100,000 words, though. Because I can't even make a to-do list without using a zillion words. [Ino-centric]
- finish Fly, which is another side-story to Slow Burn. My outline for it has it at five chapters, and it should clock in around 63,000 words. I'm having trouble with the characterization of one of the main characters though, which is bad, and why nothing of it has been posted yet. (Also, people might kill me if I work on two side-stories and not the main stories for much longer, yeah...) [Team 8-centric]
And after I get rid of those, I'll be able to start on Slow Burn's sequel, Blazing Spiral [Ino-centric, Ino/Shika (amongst others, heh) ], work on Delirium: Slippin' Down Oblivion's Slide [KakaSaku, Ino-centric] and Delirium: Birth By Numbers [Ino-centric, Hinata-centric, Ino/Hina, Ino/Shika, Hina/Naru], and Willfully Blind [Kiba-centric, Naruto-centric], Keep Me Waiting [Tenten-centric, Neji-centric, NejiTen], Saving Grace [Chouji-centric], and a fic that doesn't have a proper title at the moment, but has the working title of Team 5 [Hanabi-centric], and The Roseate Heir [Ino-centric, Ino/Shika]. None of which are listed here in any particular order.
... I will never get out of this fandom, if my to-do list is any indication. Hahaha. I feel better, now, listing out everything I have to do.
Have an idea for this week's prompt for the Poe Challenge, but I'm not sure if I want to fling myself into another week of typing like a fiend when the odds that I'm going to make it to the next round are super super super low. Ah well. I loved writing Suffocation and I'm proud of how it came out, which really, does matter more than advancing or anything else. It is just vaguely depressing to watch the poll numbers. (I should probably stop doing that, I think.)
Maybe I should write the third week's fic. It has a title, it has a plot, though I'm worried it'll want to be as long as Mercy, or longer, and that's pretty exhausting to write in a few days, get it edited and posted, because my productivity is generally way slower than that. On the other hand, it's nice to be productive and get things done and be around more fic-wise.
Maybe maybe maybe.
I should probably work on Slow Burn, since I updated Walk Through Shadow yesterday, though I admit, it's tempting to just finish Walk Through Shadow and get it done and gone before I do that, since that'd be one less fic on my plate to juggle. And then maybe I'll be able to focus on Something to Talk About again, which has been sorely neglected.
My fic goals for this year, for the longer stories are:
- finish Walk Through Shadow: only one chapter and maaaybe an epilogue left, but at the moment, I think the epilogue wants to be the final scene in the chapter, so... this is definitely the first thing I want to knock off my list, as it's the one that's closest to being done. Especially as the rough draft for the last chapter is already written. It just needs editing desperately. Lots of editing. [Shikamaru-centric]
- finish Something to Talk About: ten chapters to go in that one, but I need to reread what's already written and make sure my plotlines work right because I know I was having tricksy shifting plotlines while I was working on chapter 5 and that's one of the reasons it got shelved for a while. [Hanabi-centric, Hinata-centric]
- finish Slow Burn: which should be nineteen chapters total, though how many posts that'll be, I don't know. Slow Burn has the tendency to have some very long chapters (in the, it will be three posts long sense) and while I know that the current chapter I'm on is only going to be one post long, I'm worried some of them will be longer than three posts and in that case, that'd be over 25,000 words a chapter and I might cry because I will finish this fic this year. Which means at the least (if each chapter is only one part) I need to write another 50,000 words on it. I'm guessing it'll be more like another 80-100,000 words, though. Because I can't even make a to-do list without using a zillion words. [Ino-centric]
- finish Fly, which is another side-story to Slow Burn. My outline for it has it at five chapters, and it should clock in around 63,000 words. I'm having trouble with the characterization of one of the main characters though, which is bad, and why nothing of it has been posted yet. (Also, people might kill me if I work on two side-stories and not the main stories for much longer, yeah...) [Team 8-centric]
And after I get rid of those, I'll be able to start on Slow Burn's sequel, Blazing Spiral [Ino-centric, Ino/Shika (amongst others, heh) ], work on Delirium: Slippin' Down Oblivion's Slide [KakaSaku, Ino-centric] and Delirium: Birth By Numbers [Ino-centric, Hinata-centric, Ino/Hina, Ino/Shika, Hina/Naru], and Willfully Blind [Kiba-centric, Naruto-centric], Keep Me Waiting [Tenten-centric, Neji-centric, NejiTen], Saving Grace [Chouji-centric], and a fic that doesn't have a proper title at the moment, but has the working title of Team 5 [Hanabi-centric], and The Roseate Heir [Ino-centric, Ino/Shika]. None of which are listed here in any particular order.
... I will never get out of this fandom, if my to-do list is any indication. Hahaha. I feel better, now, listing out everything I have to do.