April WiP update!
Apr. 21st, 2019 09:22 pmI've been meaning to do this blog post for a while, but kept putting it off. Anyways, that twitter meme has got me deep in my WiPs looking for non-spoilery or lightly-spoilery excerpts from my WiPs, and I figured I really definitely should do this post now, lol.
So here's the state of things, as it were!
(If you're looking for the state of things in comparison with my last post, the last one is over here!)
I guess I should talk about wordcount first. Here's how we're shaking out so far--and please note that the numbers below contain both fanfic and potentially sale-able work, so the math won't add up:
January - 29k
February - 34.7k
March - 31k
April - 17.9k so far
It's been a bit of a rough April for me in comparison to the other months - lots of days I don't write at all, lots of days I'm sub-1000 words, which I try not to be, but it is what it is. I'm still on par for my yearly goal, so I'm just letting the months do what they like, haha. There's been some personal stuff going on this month which is impacting this a bit, and there's nothing I can do there except wait it out, so waiting it out it is! (That makes it sound very dire, lolsob. It's not dire. I just hate waiting.)
Anyways, on with the show. Here's the list of WiPs I've got, in the approximate order that I'm working on them in! As always, I take questions and comments and whatever, I'd be more than happy to chat about this.
1. Starkiller (482): This one is done, and in the process of being posted! The Phasma-POV chapter just went up last week, and the Mitaka-POV chapter is going up this week. It's been a quietly-but-happily-received piece, and I'm really delighted for that--I knew this one was a hard sell going into it, because a) it's not kylux, b) it happens three-to-sixish-years before the kylux, c) it's an obscure AU, and d) there's Hitaka in it, but it's neither a shippy fic nor a smut fic.
2. Reach Out and Touch Faith (6461): Um, yeah. This one is done too? It's the weirdest feeling, too, because this has been such a big project, and such an emotionally intense undertaking in a lot of ways, and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forautumn and I have pretty much put a pin in it. I'm so fucking proud of this piece, and I'm extremely excited to start posting again in May.
3. old man a/b/o: I'm moving this one up on the priority list, because I was reading through it looking for excerpts for the WIP meme, and this is so close to being done that I think I could finish it if I just spent some focused time on it, it's just that I actually need to spend that focused time on it, you know? So I'm trying to make this one a priority as I finish up everything else.
4. DTD one-shot (the earring fic): This one is actually pretty close to completion as well, I think. I basically just have to finish off the plot bits, and then write some soft adorable sex to tie off the piece, so this, also, just needs a little bit of focused work, and then I can gently shove that out the door and move forward. It's 3k right now, and I'm guessing it'll probably be around six or seven when I'm done, so yeah, there's not too much left!
5. clydeland sequel: I haven't even started this yet, and only have the vaguest concept for it, but I was recently reminded that adjacents month is in May! So I want to give this a shot and see if I can get something out during May just because that seems like it's definitely going to be the month for it.
6. techienician fic withdeadsy : We're going to try to put this one out in May as well! We reviewed what we have, and I think we're just going to sketch out the rest of the scenes, and then try to get the rest of it down and go from there. So hopefully this works out as well.
7. ancestry dot com: This one is a cleaned up twitter fic thread that I'm expanding and smoothing out slightly. It's nothing major, but I still would like to get it done at some point this year. It's a Kylo-POV fic, centered around that time he tried to help his adopted sister Rey find her bio family, only to realize that he definitely, one hundred percent, banged the shit out of her brother, and then immediately got ghosted, even though the redhead claimed Kylo's dick was the best dick he'd ever had.
8. light side noir au: This also used to be a twitter fic! But it got to the point where I wanted to do more with the second half of the fic than what twitter would allow, so I shelved it until I can go back and do the second half of it. This is going to be a weird one--the concept for this is essentially that Ben Solo goes into politics, but has a fairly major ideological schism with his mother, changes his name, and starts delving into some really unsavory politics. At one point, he's attacked in an alley, gaining his typical scar, and from there, his political views get even worse. He finds an unlikely ally, though, in the Senator from Arkanis, who begins supporting Kylo in all of his sketchy, sketchy viewpoints. It's a tough piece, because it's decidedly noir, and it's vicious, and it's very not nice, and there's more than a bit of fascism in it, but we're in Kylo's viewpoint, so he doesn't label it that way, because he's right. (UGH.) Anyways, it's a mess, but I do care quite a bit about the AU itself, once we get past all the problematic content, so I'm going to sit down and work on this at some point.
9. Aphelion: And, here it is--the long-awaited Hux-POV prequel-sequel to Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo/sequel to Starkiller/etc. This is my major longfic project for the year. I'm working off about fifty thousand words that I'd drafted a few years ago, but mostly need to pitch--but, thankfully, the fifty thousand words that I wrote also looked after all the intersection points between Ben's storyline and Hux's, so I'm really glad I saved myself that work. Yay, me!
10. filthy!Kylo: I actually thought I only had nine projects, and then I remembered that I had briefly conceptualized a tenth. I don't know what it's going to look like, but it's a post-Crait fic where Kylo is literally marinating in his own failures by choosing not to wash, and Hux is offended because it's bringing perception of the Order down even lower than what it already was. Hopefully this will be a quick fic, but I'll have to figure out what the hell I'm gonna do with it first, lol.
So, there you have it! Ten fic projects for the year, hopefully. It doesn't seem like it's that much now that I've put it on paper, but I'm also trying to draft two original novels this year, do edits on a third, and also put out a collection of short porno stories, so I'm going to have to find some extra time to try and whack all of this out. But now that I've got it all down, this definitely looks like a year for me, so I think I can just go from here and try to sort everything out.
Huzzah, etc. Wow, am I ever tired, lol.
So here's the state of things, as it were!
(If you're looking for the state of things in comparison with my last post, the last one is over here!)
I guess I should talk about wordcount first. Here's how we're shaking out so far--and please note that the numbers below contain both fanfic and potentially sale-able work, so the math won't add up:
January - 29k
February - 34.7k
March - 31k
April - 17.9k so far
It's been a bit of a rough April for me in comparison to the other months - lots of days I don't write at all, lots of days I'm sub-1000 words, which I try not to be, but it is what it is. I'm still on par for my yearly goal, so I'm just letting the months do what they like, haha. There's been some personal stuff going on this month which is impacting this a bit, and there's nothing I can do there except wait it out, so waiting it out it is! (That makes it sound very dire, lolsob. It's not dire. I just hate waiting.)
Anyways, on with the show. Here's the list of WiPs I've got, in the approximate order that I'm working on them in! As always, I take questions and comments and whatever, I'd be more than happy to chat about this.
1. Starkiller (482): This one is done, and in the process of being posted! The Phasma-POV chapter just went up last week, and the Mitaka-POV chapter is going up this week. It's been a quietly-but-happily-received piece, and I'm really delighted for that--I knew this one was a hard sell going into it, because a) it's not kylux, b) it happens three-to-sixish-years before the kylux, c) it's an obscure AU, and d) there's Hitaka in it, but it's neither a shippy fic nor a smut fic.
2. Reach Out and Touch Faith (6461): Um, yeah. This one is done too? It's the weirdest feeling, too, because this has been such a big project, and such an emotionally intense undertaking in a lot of ways, and
forautumn and I have pretty much put a pin in it. I'm so fucking proud of this piece, and I'm extremely excited to start posting again in May. 3. old man a/b/o: I'm moving this one up on the priority list, because I was reading through it looking for excerpts for the WIP meme, and this is so close to being done that I think I could finish it if I just spent some focused time on it, it's just that I actually need to spend that focused time on it, you know? So I'm trying to make this one a priority as I finish up everything else.
4. DTD one-shot (the earring fic): This one is actually pretty close to completion as well, I think. I basically just have to finish off the plot bits, and then write some soft adorable sex to tie off the piece, so this, also, just needs a little bit of focused work, and then I can gently shove that out the door and move forward. It's 3k right now, and I'm guessing it'll probably be around six or seven when I'm done, so yeah, there's not too much left!
5. clydeland sequel: I haven't even started this yet, and only have the vaguest concept for it, but I was recently reminded that adjacents month is in May! So I want to give this a shot and see if I can get something out during May just because that seems like it's definitely going to be the month for it.
6. techienician fic with
deadsy : We're going to try to put this one out in May as well! We reviewed what we have, and I think we're just going to sketch out the rest of the scenes, and then try to get the rest of it down and go from there. So hopefully this works out as well.7. ancestry dot com: This one is a cleaned up twitter fic thread that I'm expanding and smoothing out slightly. It's nothing major, but I still would like to get it done at some point this year. It's a Kylo-POV fic, centered around that time he tried to help his adopted sister Rey find her bio family, only to realize that he definitely, one hundred percent, banged the shit out of her brother, and then immediately got ghosted, even though the redhead claimed Kylo's dick was the best dick he'd ever had.
8. light side noir au: This also used to be a twitter fic! But it got to the point where I wanted to do more with the second half of the fic than what twitter would allow, so I shelved it until I can go back and do the second half of it. This is going to be a weird one--the concept for this is essentially that Ben Solo goes into politics, but has a fairly major ideological schism with his mother, changes his name, and starts delving into some really unsavory politics. At one point, he's attacked in an alley, gaining his typical scar, and from there, his political views get even worse. He finds an unlikely ally, though, in the Senator from Arkanis, who begins supporting Kylo in all of his sketchy, sketchy viewpoints. It's a tough piece, because it's decidedly noir, and it's vicious, and it's very not nice, and there's more than a bit of fascism in it, but we're in Kylo's viewpoint, so he doesn't label it that way, because he's right. (UGH.) Anyways, it's a mess, but I do care quite a bit about the AU itself, once we get past all the problematic content, so I'm going to sit down and work on this at some point.
9. Aphelion: And, here it is--the long-awaited Hux-POV prequel-sequel to Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo/sequel to Starkiller/etc. This is my major longfic project for the year. I'm working off about fifty thousand words that I'd drafted a few years ago, but mostly need to pitch--but, thankfully, the fifty thousand words that I wrote also looked after all the intersection points between Ben's storyline and Hux's, so I'm really glad I saved myself that work. Yay, me!
10. filthy!Kylo: I actually thought I only had nine projects, and then I remembered that I had briefly conceptualized a tenth. I don't know what it's going to look like, but it's a post-Crait fic where Kylo is literally marinating in his own failures by choosing not to wash, and Hux is offended because it's bringing perception of the Order down even lower than what it already was. Hopefully this will be a quick fic, but I'll have to figure out what the hell I'm gonna do with it first, lol.
So, there you have it! Ten fic projects for the year, hopefully. It doesn't seem like it's that much now that I've put it on paper, but I'm also trying to draft two original novels this year, do edits on a third, and also put out a collection of short porno stories, so I'm going to have to find some extra time to try and whack all of this out. But now that I've got it all down, this definitely looks like a year for me, so I think I can just go from here and try to sort everything out.
Huzzah, etc. Wow, am I ever tired, lol.
