March WiP Update!
Mar. 5th, 2019 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ktula Helloooooo, everyone. I figured it was probably about time to do an update on my works-in-progress! So here we go.
(I did have every intention of making these a monthly thing, but it's, uh, *looks at wrist* March, so I guess that just wasn't a priority for me!)
My "official" wordcount goal for the year is 300,000 words. (I would like to write over 500,000 words, and the actual list of projects I want to do this year comes in at over 600,000, but I'm trying my best to ignore both of those numbers, and focus on 300,000. For reference, last year's goal was 250,000, and I wrote somewhere around 420,000.) So far, I'm making good progress--I did 29k in January, almost 35k in February, and am at 8k already for March. So that's humming along nicely.
I split my goals between work I can sell, and work that I can't--and so far, this year has been pretty seriously focused on work that I can't sell. (Fanfic, y'all. It's fanfic.) I did put 5k into a novel that I'm going to try to get agented, and I'll be working on that one very seriously in April, but I spent the entirely of December focused on finishing a novel up for submission, so gave myself permission to just focus on self-indulgent projects for the first chunk of the year here.
And, as it turns out, I really needed that--my mental health in January was extremely, extremely rough, and I had a hard time getting my feet under me for most of it. (Things have been better since--I have my regular cyclical mental health issues, but they've been at an intensity I can handle, instead of an intensity that I can't.)
But! As you can see from the wordcounts above, February was much better!!
So, without further ado, here's the actual WIP list. I'm only talking about fanfic here--so the numbers won't add up to the totals, and that's fine.
1. Starkiller (22k) - the first draft on this one is complete! It's part of the Come As You Are verse, which is my kylux modern dance/ballet/BDSM/sex work modern AU (I know, it's a mouthful). It's a novella covering a time period about 3 - 6 years before Foxtrot. It's a multi-POV piece, focused on characters who won't otherwise get much for POV opportunities - in this case, Finn, Phasma, and Mitaka (whose POV we've already seen in Reconnaissance). It's very self-indulgent--it honestly feels like it's mostly easter eggs and cameos, and I also don't care...I think the stories that are being told are important to the verse, but it's also a perfectly skippable piece if people don't dig it. It's also an experiment of sorts--if you read Starkiller, you get some major reveals for the upcoming Hux-POV prequel-sequel longfic, Aphelion. And if you don't read it--you get those same reveals at an entirely different point in the story, which should let you have an entirely different experience! It'll be kind of fun, I think. (Same as if, you know, you read Aphelion before you read Foxtrot. Entirely different reveals, entirely different emotional weight!)
2. Reach Out and Touch Faith (33k) - I can't even say anything about this, because anytime I so much as breathe, I am leaking spoilers, but rest assured thatforautumn and I are so excited to share the conclusion of this piece with you once we finish it. That's right--I put thirty k into it so far this year, and we're still not done. But gosh, is it ever *chef kiss*. The things Autumn is doing, wow. I just. I can't even talk about this, I'm so excited about it. (Also, the piece is well over 100k now, which is like--I can't believe we did it! It's so exciting!)
3. old man a/b/o kylux (7.5k total) - this piece is coming along! It's one I keep getting roadblocked on--in a lot of ways, it's a really personal piece about my own struggles with cyclical hormonal cycles, birth control pills, and a lot of other things. But also, it's a story about a canon kylux marriage that started out really passionate, and then ended up really estranged, and whether it's possible to rebuild something when both of you let it get extremely, extremely broken. I think I still have about eight scenes left to draft, so I'm going to keep my head down on that one and keep plugging away on it.
4. clydeland (3k) - this is a story of missed connections, mostly. Of the times that Stensland tried to connect with Clyde, and kept getting brushed off. It's Clyde-POV, which I find a little difficult to write? But I have the framework of the piece settled now, so it's just a matter of keeping up with it, and watching the source material constantly and repeatedly. I think the target wordcount for this piece is around 10k, though if it gets pushed to 15k, I'm not going to be upset.
5. techienician (2k) - I'm doing this one with Deadsy! And it's a goddamn delight, it's raunchy and filthy and fucked up and every time Matt opens his mouth, I want to die of second-hand embarrassment, and it's going to be a really good time. We've got a ways to go on this one, yet, I think. But progress is happening!
6. misc fics - I also did a couple extra thousand words on miscellaneous fics. I'm poking at a couple of twitter fics to get those cleaned up, I have a couple of concepts that I've been adding notes to occasionally, that sort of thing. Nothing here has really developed into anything substantial yet!
I also have some other collabs on the go that I haven't put any significant time into yet --splinteredstar and I have another installment in the vampire AU coming up, and Romi and I have a tweetfic that got intense that we need to clean up and stick on ao3.
I'm sure there's other things I've talked about that I haven't mentioned here too.
As always, if you have any questions, or want to chat about anything, definitely let me know! You can comment here, or any of my other platforms or anything.
(I did have every intention of making these a monthly thing, but it's, uh, *looks at wrist* March, so I guess that just wasn't a priority for me!)
My "official" wordcount goal for the year is 300,000 words. (I would like to write over 500,000 words, and the actual list of projects I want to do this year comes in at over 600,000, but I'm trying my best to ignore both of those numbers, and focus on 300,000. For reference, last year's goal was 250,000, and I wrote somewhere around 420,000.) So far, I'm making good progress--I did 29k in January, almost 35k in February, and am at 8k already for March. So that's humming along nicely.
I split my goals between work I can sell, and work that I can't--and so far, this year has been pretty seriously focused on work that I can't sell. (Fanfic, y'all. It's fanfic.) I did put 5k into a novel that I'm going to try to get agented, and I'll be working on that one very seriously in April, but I spent the entirely of December focused on finishing a novel up for submission, so gave myself permission to just focus on self-indulgent projects for the first chunk of the year here.
And, as it turns out, I really needed that--my mental health in January was extremely, extremely rough, and I had a hard time getting my feet under me for most of it. (Things have been better since--I have my regular cyclical mental health issues, but they've been at an intensity I can handle, instead of an intensity that I can't.)
But! As you can see from the wordcounts above, February was much better!!
So, without further ado, here's the actual WIP list. I'm only talking about fanfic here--so the numbers won't add up to the totals, and that's fine.
1. Starkiller (22k) - the first draft on this one is complete! It's part of the Come As You Are verse, which is my kylux modern dance/ballet/BDSM/sex work modern AU (I know, it's a mouthful). It's a novella covering a time period about 3 - 6 years before Foxtrot. It's a multi-POV piece, focused on characters who won't otherwise get much for POV opportunities - in this case, Finn, Phasma, and Mitaka (whose POV we've already seen in Reconnaissance). It's very self-indulgent--it honestly feels like it's mostly easter eggs and cameos, and I also don't care...I think the stories that are being told are important to the verse, but it's also a perfectly skippable piece if people don't dig it. It's also an experiment of sorts--if you read Starkiller, you get some major reveals for the upcoming Hux-POV prequel-sequel longfic, Aphelion. And if you don't read it--you get those same reveals at an entirely different point in the story, which should let you have an entirely different experience! It'll be kind of fun, I think. (Same as if, you know, you read Aphelion before you read Foxtrot. Entirely different reveals, entirely different emotional weight!)
2. Reach Out and Touch Faith (33k) - I can't even say anything about this, because anytime I so much as breathe, I am leaking spoilers, but rest assured that
forautumn and I are so excited to share the conclusion of this piece with you once we finish it. That's right--I put thirty k into it so far this year, and we're still not done. But gosh, is it ever *chef kiss*. The things Autumn is doing, wow. I just. I can't even talk about this, I'm so excited about it. (Also, the piece is well over 100k now, which is like--I can't believe we did it! It's so exciting!)3. old man a/b/o kylux (7.5k total) - this piece is coming along! It's one I keep getting roadblocked on--in a lot of ways, it's a really personal piece about my own struggles with cyclical hormonal cycles, birth control pills, and a lot of other things. But also, it's a story about a canon kylux marriage that started out really passionate, and then ended up really estranged, and whether it's possible to rebuild something when both of you let it get extremely, extremely broken. I think I still have about eight scenes left to draft, so I'm going to keep my head down on that one and keep plugging away on it.
4. clydeland (3k) - this is a story of missed connections, mostly. Of the times that Stensland tried to connect with Clyde, and kept getting brushed off. It's Clyde-POV, which I find a little difficult to write? But I have the framework of the piece settled now, so it's just a matter of keeping up with it, and watching the source material constantly and repeatedly. I think the target wordcount for this piece is around 10k, though if it gets pushed to 15k, I'm not going to be upset.
5. techienician (2k) - I'm doing this one with Deadsy! And it's a goddamn delight, it's raunchy and filthy and fucked up and every time Matt opens his mouth, I want to die of second-hand embarrassment, and it's going to be a really good time. We've got a ways to go on this one, yet, I think. But progress is happening!
6. misc fics - I also did a couple extra thousand words on miscellaneous fics. I'm poking at a couple of twitter fics to get those cleaned up, I have a couple of concepts that I've been adding notes to occasionally, that sort of thing. Nothing here has really developed into anything substantial yet!
I also have some other collabs on the go that I haven't put any significant time into yet --
splinteredstar and I have another installment in the vampire AU coming up, and Romi and I have a tweetfic that got intense that we need to clean up and stick on ao3.I'm sure there's other things I've talked about that I haven't mentioned here too.
As always, if you have any questions, or want to chat about anything, definitely let me know! You can comment here, or any of my other platforms or anything.
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Date: 2019-03-09 07:12 am (UTC)