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runicmagitek and trying my hand at WIP Wednesday! Or like... a weekly update thing. Which probably won't be once a week because I forget things, but that's neither here nor there.
Editing continues on A Hero Lies In You. To be honest, I'd really hoped to be further along with it than I am and trying to kill the voice in my head that's all, "Well, if you were a better writer you wouldn't have to edit so much shit, why are you even bothering, etc etc." My hope is that if the edits for the first round are this extensive, then maybe I'm saving myself work on the next draft. The two people who've read it already have not suggested adding any extra scenes to this novel - but plenty of extra for the future onesthanks Matt you asshole - and I feel like I've grown a lot in terms of plotting it all out and coming to a satisfying conclusion.
And I hit Chapter 8. The chapter that I basically screamed "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK" at the top of my lungs while writing it, it was so bad. And yes, it's where the writing is the weakest because it's a major fight scene and I wrote what I needed to in order to get to the rest of the novel. But reading it again, I've basically rewritten almost all of it. Like, things happen in the same order, but I actually gave a fuck this time? And tried to keep things concise and cut out all the thinking bullshit between the action? It's all still on the handwritten draft so it's not in Scrivener yet, but it will be eventually.
I also started writing some backstory that I can't post with the fic because it's a major spoiler for like, novel 3.5 of this series. It's the twins' mother's story, and who their father is, and I want that to well and truly be a bomb when it drops. I'm having fun with it, but it's also breaking my damn heart because there isn't a happy ending. Like, at all. Not even in future parts. Everything is awful and it's been great to write.
Also working on the first of my 300 prompts! It's Auron/Lulu. It's gonna be filled with smut. I regret nothing.
I just need to remind myself that it's okay if my overall word counts are lower because of all the editing work. And that it will be okay. Almost to my yearly goal of 250k! I'll likely hit it in July.
runicmagitek and trying my hand at WIP Wednesday! Or like... a weekly update thing. Which probably won't be once a week because I forget things, but that's neither here nor there. Editing continues on A Hero Lies In You. To be honest, I'd really hoped to be further along with it than I am and trying to kill the voice in my head that's all, "Well, if you were a better writer you wouldn't have to edit so much shit, why are you even bothering, etc etc." My hope is that if the edits for the first round are this extensive, then maybe I'm saving myself work on the next draft. The two people who've read it already have not suggested adding any extra scenes to this novel - but plenty of extra for the future ones
And I hit Chapter 8. The chapter that I basically screamed "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK" at the top of my lungs while writing it, it was so bad. And yes, it's where the writing is the weakest because it's a major fight scene and I wrote what I needed to in order to get to the rest of the novel. But reading it again, I've basically rewritten almost all of it. Like, things happen in the same order, but I actually gave a fuck this time? And tried to keep things concise and cut out all the thinking bullshit between the action? It's all still on the handwritten draft so it's not in Scrivener yet, but it will be eventually.
I also started writing some backstory that I can't post with the fic because it's a major spoiler for like, novel 3.5 of this series. It's the twins' mother's story, and who their father is, and I want that to well and truly be a bomb when it drops. I'm having fun with it, but it's also breaking my damn heart because there isn't a happy ending. Like, at all. Not even in future parts. Everything is awful and it's been great to write.
Also working on the first of my 300 prompts! It's Auron/Lulu. It's gonna be filled with smut. I regret nothing.
I just need to remind myself that it's okay if my overall word counts are lower because of all the editing work. And that it will be okay. Almost to my yearly goal of 250k! I'll likely hit it in July.
