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marvel_bang, working on the sequel to With These Hungry Eyes. And for once in my life, I've actually outlined an entire long fic before I started writing. Like, I know what the ending is already, and how I'm going to get there.
Yeah, I'm surprised too.
I also do not need to wait for Camp NaNo to start again to begin working on this. It's better if I get a head start, so to speak, because my current estimate is that the story will be between 50-60k. I'm going to be here forever, but I don't have that kind of time. What helps, though, is that I have detailed notes about each scene and there's a little bit of flexibility too to change things as I need, which I find helpful. Currently it stands at 26 scenes, chapters to be figured out later.
Since part of the story is taking place in Texas, I dug through Spotify looking for some 80s/90s country songs to help inspire me. This is before modern country music turned into FUCK YEAH, MERICA! and is just pop music with a steel guitar and pisses me off. It's also the stuff I grew up with, and man, there are some kickass female artists from that time.
Amazingly I still remember many, many words to all these songs even though I haven't actively listened to them in well over a decade. I got mad at the first 90s country playlist I found because I needed to know that there was a Mary Chapin Carpenter song on there. Old Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood? Sign me the fuck up. The Chicks singing about not wanting to settle down in "Ready to Run"? Is that not the perfect song for Julianne?
Currently the playlist looks as follows: ( cut to save your f-list )
Don't mind me, I'm just getting nostalgic over music I don't listen to anymore, lol.
On a side note, this beast also needs a title.
marvel_bang, working on the sequel to With These Hungry Eyes. And for once in my life, I've actually outlined an entire long fic before I started writing. Like, I know what the ending is already, and how I'm going to get there. Yeah, I'm surprised too.
I also do not need to wait for Camp NaNo to start again to begin working on this. It's better if I get a head start, so to speak, because my current estimate is that the story will be between 50-60k. I'm going to be here forever, but I don't have that kind of time. What helps, though, is that I have detailed notes about each scene and there's a little bit of flexibility too to change things as I need, which I find helpful. Currently it stands at 26 scenes, chapters to be figured out later.
Since part of the story is taking place in Texas, I dug through Spotify looking for some 80s/90s country songs to help inspire me. This is before modern country music turned into FUCK YEAH, MERICA! and is just pop music with a steel guitar and pisses me off. It's also the stuff I grew up with, and man, there are some kickass female artists from that time.
Amazingly I still remember many, many words to all these songs even though I haven't actively listened to them in well over a decade. I got mad at the first 90s country playlist I found because I needed to know that there was a Mary Chapin Carpenter song on there. Old Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood? Sign me the fuck up. The Chicks singing about not wanting to settle down in "Ready to Run"? Is that not the perfect song for Julianne?
Currently the playlist looks as follows: ( cut to save your f-list )
Don't mind me, I'm just getting nostalgic over music I don't listen to anymore, lol.
On a side note, this beast also needs a title.