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It's Friday, is everyone okay? (2023/12/22)
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Alright, Science will happen later... /glares at Sciency bits/
So! Since the last round-up, I reached my wordcount goal =) It's not entirely posted yet because I did something I usually never do... I wrote a Christmas fic. So I'm waiting a bit before posting. Though... Take "Christmas fic" with a full shaker of salt. I only did this because my current fandom has not one but two (2) characters with good reasons to have heavy PTSD about Christmas, so I couldn't resist the opportunity for tasty angst ='D
I have another fic I began before suddenly switching to the Christmas project, so I'd like to work more on that.
I think that's all for me =)
PS: and I totally forgot about the fic I was supposed to finish for mid-January xD It's not too late yet but if that keeps happening it'll win one more year in the to-write pile x'D
I should keep poking you about this fic! With as much as it is on your mind, it will be such an accomplishment when you've finished. I hereby decree you should at least look at it sometime this week and figure out a plan for getting it done!
~~That is, if you want me to poke you about it. If not, that's totally fine.~~
I'm fine with poking, and that would probably be needed eventually given how much my brain is pretending this fic is not a thing x'D
I'll thus try to remember I need to work on it o7
Sounds good! I will be checking in with you next weekend to make sure you have started focusing on the fic. Be prepared, as next weekend I'll probably be after you to get a certain amount of words done! (Though I'll need to know about how long you think it's going to be.)
File is currently 797 words long. It's supposed to be a short PWP and skimming through it, it looks like I managed to squeeze the buildup in 800 words instead of my usual 1k+ x'D So I'd expect uh... I don't know, how do people even guess at how long their stories are going to be? I suppose around 2k more? (no I won't write 2k straight of smut, but I set up emotional stuff so it'll probably be more than smut) But frankly I have no idea and I hope this will not turn into one of these "hey you thought it'd be short but now I'm 5 times your usual length for "short", have fun" monstrosity x')
(No, seriously, how do people estimate the length of their works before being close to finishing them? Genuine question.)
I have no idea. I never know how long anything is going to be. I'm used to asking people about it because somehow I'm around a lot of people who estimate their stories all the time. However, I have gone into projects knowing it has to be a minimum of X words. In which case, I can at least plan out my time for those.
If you want something around 2k more (or think that should be good enough to get it done, I can give you an assignment of 1k words a week. It would get you done with enough time to do whatever editing you want before sending it!
So by New Years Eve, I expect to hear that you are about 1.8k words in!
I physically cannot edit lol (not even joking, my brain empties entirely if I try editing, I just can't), I just need time to spellcheck =')
Uh oh. This is getting serious. Welp, guess I'll have to work on that then...
Here I am! To check in on your progress. Have you reached 1k?
I really should have refused this challenge because it was a very bad week for it x') I had my first actual vacation since July so I just dropped everything... but it lasted only three days and I spent the rest of the week dealing very badly with the fact I wanted more vacation. I thought of working on this fic every day (except maybe Monday) but by Saturday evening I had decided I would fail anyway so if I could at least not give a fuck instead of making myself feel even worse that would be great thank you.
So no. I didn't even open that fucking file. I want to scream at people about the whole vacation thing. I don't know if I'll be able to do anything about this fic in the coming weeks honestly.
Oof. Sorry to hear it. Sounds rough. Don't worry about it then. You have more important matters to handle. I'm hoping things will get better for you.
Thank you ♥ And also thank you for offering to poke me, and coming to check-in, I fumbled the timing but it was really appreciated nonetheless ♥