Challenge #4
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.
( goooooaaaaaaals )
Challenge #4
In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.
( goooooaaaaaaals )
Guys. Guys.
I FINISHED THE FIRST EDIT!!!!!!
I'm hoping to put in the final edits this afternoon, barring my kids' behavior (I love them, but sometimes need more attention than others, and that's good too!). Then I'll do one more readthrough to see how the edits sound now that it's all done, make my list of questions for Runic as well as a "cheat sheet" on canon, and then away it goes!
And then I swear to fuck I'm not touching that shit until January. I want to post it but it's going to need at least one more good revision (pending on what comes back, I may just be rewriting fight scenes, idk yet) and I need a break from it. I'll have NaNo to hammer out Ninjetti.
And speaking of Ninjetti - it also has a title now! It's now Seven Seas of Rhye after the Queen song. The lyrics fit so perfectly.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh so happy, but still have so much left to do. Gotta make myself focus.
I FINISHED THE FIRST EDIT!!!!!!
I'm hoping to put in the final edits this afternoon, barring my kids' behavior (I love them, but sometimes need more attention than others, and that's good too!). Then I'll do one more readthrough to see how the edits sound now that it's all done, make my list of questions for Runic as well as a "cheat sheet" on canon, and then away it goes!
And then I swear to fuck I'm not touching that shit until January. I want to post it but it's going to need at least one more good revision (pending on what comes back, I may just be rewriting fight scenes, idk yet) and I need a break from it. I'll have NaNo to hammer out Ninjetti.
And speaking of Ninjetti - it also has a title now! It's now Seven Seas of Rhye after the Queen song. The lyrics fit so perfectly.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh so happy, but still have so much left to do. Gotta make myself focus.
WIP Wednesday! And I am 32 goddamn pages away from being finished with this motherfucking edit. I have the feeling that I'm rushing through the end, which I don't want to do, but I also really, really want it done so I can draft my email for my beta ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
runicmagitek as well as sending a second draft to Meghan and Matt for their thoughts. I feel like I'm at the point where I might be adding some scenes, but I don't have to change the actual story structure.
Rewriting fight scenes aside, of course.
But I keep adding little bits and pieces to the existing scenes that I really enjoy. This one isn't in the Scrivener version yet (because I try to add a scene at a time, and I finished this scene just this morning), but I thought it was a great bit of dialogue and says a lot about Zack and Billy.
( picture under the cut! )
Not much else to report on the writing front. Still trying to decide if I want to join![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hlh_shortcuts again this year, and looking over the other signups to make sure there's something that jumps out that I want to write. Understand the Miracle of Living is also now live, which was my assignment for Press Start. I feel like I've accomplished things even thought I don't have much to show for it.
Maybe next week will have some more concrete things? *shrugs* It'll all work out.
runicmagitek as well as sending a second draft to Meghan and Matt for their thoughts. I feel like I'm at the point where I might be adding some scenes, but I don't have to change the actual story structure. Rewriting fight scenes aside, of course.
But I keep adding little bits and pieces to the existing scenes that I really enjoy. This one isn't in the Scrivener version yet (because I try to add a scene at a time, and I finished this scene just this morning), but I thought it was a great bit of dialogue and says a lot about Zack and Billy.
( picture under the cut! )
Not much else to report on the writing front. Still trying to decide if I want to join
hlh_shortcuts again this year, and looking over the other signups to make sure there's something that jumps out that I want to write. Understand the Miracle of Living is also now live, which was my assignment for Press Start. I feel like I've accomplished things even thought I don't have much to show for it. Maybe next week will have some more concrete things? *shrugs* It'll all work out.
WIP Wednesday!
That sounds more excited than I really am, tbh. I found out my boss is leaving, and as he's one of the few truly decent managers I've had in my Starbucks career, my anxiety has spiked through the roof. I now worry about everything to whether or not I get along with my incoming manager, and especially if he'll accept my availability - Jon and I work opposite shifts because we can't afford to put Gabby in daycare, and if he won't work with it, I'll have to step down. Which, by the way, also results in me not paying my bills. I'm likely overreacting, but that's the way anxiety works, so I'm dealing with it as best I can. I've also been through manager transition enough times to know that things won't feel "normal" again until, idk, maybe after Christmas.
Also starting to look at what other jobs are out there to get me out of this mess, which is another demon in and of itself.
Fun times.
None of this has particularly made me want to write this week. Mypress_start_comm entry is almost finished, and it's sitting at over 8k, and fuck I hope the recipient likes it. I've also worked on some more of Ninjetti... in which the OT3 (Trini/Kim/Tommy) get together. I think this will end up being part of a one shot leading into prom, but it's going to earn it's E rating. Just gotta get into the right headspace to write the smut, that's all.
I have, however, been really excited to edit. I spent the last few days splitting a scene into two, writing a new ending and new beginning for them, and then continuing onward. I sometimes get frustrated at my "lack" of progress because I keep thinking I should be further along, but then I remember how much work I'm putting into this, and that it's going to be okay if I don't make some arbitrary deadline.
And then, on a lark, I decided to pull out the last thing I hardcore edited: One New Message.
( cut for pictures and things )
That sounds more excited than I really am, tbh. I found out my boss is leaving, and as he's one of the few truly decent managers I've had in my Starbucks career, my anxiety has spiked through the roof. I now worry about everything to whether or not I get along with my incoming manager, and especially if he'll accept my availability - Jon and I work opposite shifts because we can't afford to put Gabby in daycare, and if he won't work with it, I'll have to step down. Which, by the way, also results in me not paying my bills. I'm likely overreacting, but that's the way anxiety works, so I'm dealing with it as best I can. I've also been through manager transition enough times to know that things won't feel "normal" again until, idk, maybe after Christmas.
Also starting to look at what other jobs are out there to get me out of this mess, which is another demon in and of itself.
Fun times.
None of this has particularly made me want to write this week. My
press_start_comm entry is almost finished, and it's sitting at over 8k, and fuck I hope the recipient likes it. I've also worked on some more of Ninjetti... in which the OT3 (Trini/Kim/Tommy) get together. I think this will end up being part of a one shot leading into prom, but it's going to earn it's E rating. Just gotta get into the right headspace to write the smut, that's all. I have, however, been really excited to edit. I spent the last few days splitting a scene into two, writing a new ending and new beginning for them, and then continuing onward. I sometimes get frustrated at my "lack" of progress because I keep thinking I should be further along, but then I remember how much work I'm putting into this, and that it's going to be okay if I don't make some arbitrary deadline.
And then, on a lark, I decided to pull out the last thing I hardcore edited: One New Message.
( cut for pictures and things )
Me, editing the hard copy: Oh shit, you totally wrote this crap at 4am, didn't you?
Me, typing said edits into Scrivener: Oh shit, you totally edited this thing at 4am, didn't you?
Me, typing said edits into Scrivener: Oh shit, you totally edited this thing at 4am, didn't you?
WHOOPS IT'S THURSDAY guess I screwed up this week, my bad.
Anyways. Writing update. Currently starting to piece together a tentative scene outline for Ninjetti, as my Camp NaNo project will be called until it gets an official title. I have a lot of it in my head already, which is helpful, and I've figured out most of the main bits. As always, I'll play around with scene order and add things as necessary, because I never know what I need to write until I'm actually there. I'm carrying over some of the big themes from A Hero Lies In You (namely: found family. soooooooo much fucking found family. You will pry this trope from my cold dead fingers) and laying the seeds of the war to come.
It has occurred to me that, while part 1 had a strong "evil" arc, since I wrote parts from Tommy's point of view while he was evil, I don't necessarily have that yet for Ninjetti. Zedd is obviously a thing, but I haven't put as much work into him yet as he needs. I'll put the bug in Matt's ear and we'll plot in the next few days, since he is my lore guy.
Also finally watched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. Holy shit, that didn't hold up. At all. One can argue that it was never good to begin with, but I was also a kid when it came out, and you're allowed to like shitty things when you haven't watched anything better. Q enjoyed it because he's six and things still blow up but man. The only thing I'm keeping from that is Dulcea and it might just be her name and the fact that she's a badass.
....to be fair, Power Rangers in general can inspire some really great things, but as actual shows, they're shit. The 2017 movie did pretty good with reinventing these characters and avoiding stereotypes, and I hope to do the same with my writing.
Also got my nominations in for Press Start. Awwwww yeah. Gonna write some video game goodness this summer!
Beyond that, editing continues. I've been trying to type in my edits as I go so I have less to do at the end. I'm a little worried about how I'm going handle drafting something new while editing, while working on PSL things, but it'll all work out. It always does.
Anyways. Writing update. Currently starting to piece together a tentative scene outline for Ninjetti, as my Camp NaNo project will be called until it gets an official title. I have a lot of it in my head already, which is helpful, and I've figured out most of the main bits. As always, I'll play around with scene order and add things as necessary, because I never know what I need to write until I'm actually there. I'm carrying over some of the big themes from A Hero Lies In You (namely: found family. soooooooo much fucking found family. You will pry this trope from my cold dead fingers) and laying the seeds of the war to come.
It has occurred to me that, while part 1 had a strong "evil" arc, since I wrote parts from Tommy's point of view while he was evil, I don't necessarily have that yet for Ninjetti. Zedd is obviously a thing, but I haven't put as much work into him yet as he needs. I'll put the bug in Matt's ear and we'll plot in the next few days, since he is my lore guy.
Also finally watched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. Holy shit, that didn't hold up. At all. One can argue that it was never good to begin with, but I was also a kid when it came out, and you're allowed to like shitty things when you haven't watched anything better. Q enjoyed it because he's six and things still blow up but man. The only thing I'm keeping from that is Dulcea and it might just be her name and the fact that she's a badass.
....to be fair, Power Rangers in general can inspire some really great things, but as actual shows, they're shit. The 2017 movie did pretty good with reinventing these characters and avoiding stereotypes, and I hope to do the same with my writing.
Also got my nominations in for Press Start. Awwwww yeah. Gonna write some video game goodness this summer!
Beyond that, editing continues. I've been trying to type in my edits as I go so I have less to do at the end. I'm a little worried about how I'm going handle drafting something new while editing, while working on PSL things, but it'll all work out. It always does.
So I'm stealing this idea from 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.
I finished it. The first draft of A Hero Lies in You is complete.
Just shy of two months and 85,384 words. I have never been able to keep up that pace for a draft before, so that's a huge milestone. My current plan is to let it sit until June, where I will print it out and do my first round of edits. Mostly, scenes I know need details/rewrites and removing all the filler words that come from writing so much so quickly. Then it's off to beta and I see if it holds up as well as it does in my head.
July will be rewrites (depending on what's come back) as well as starting part 2 as my July project for Camp Nanowrimo. :3 Assuming I can haul ass through part 2, I hope to start posting A Hero Lies in You by the end of summer, and then tackle part three for Nanowrimo in November.
I have also crushed my goal forgetyourwordsout, which is also great. Going to work on some drabbles and things to keep my mind busy until I can tackle rewrites.
Just shy of two months and 85,384 words. I have never been able to keep up that pace for a draft before, so that's a huge milestone. My current plan is to let it sit until June, where I will print it out and do my first round of edits. Mostly, scenes I know need details/rewrites and removing all the filler words that come from writing so much so quickly. Then it's off to beta and I see if it holds up as well as it does in my head.
July will be rewrites (depending on what's come back) as well as starting part 2 as my July project for Camp Nanowrimo. :3 Assuming I can haul ass through part 2, I hope to start posting A Hero Lies in You by the end of summer, and then tackle part three for Nanowrimo in November.
I have also crushed my goal for
getyourwordsout, which is also great. Going to work on some drabbles and things to keep my mind busy until I can tackle rewrites.
I kicked Camp Nano's ass this April. 53,893 words, most of it on A Hero Lies In You, part one of this epic Power Rangers fic I've been working on. I'm about two thirds of the way through the story, and if I keep up this pace, I can probably finish draft one in May. I now have an entire notebook just for plotting this series, which... is going to be massive. And as long as I'm having fun with it, I'm going to run with it.
I'm waiting on my beta for my
waybackexchange fic so I can post that, and then the next challenge will not be until press_start_comm over the summer. And maybe the Successor Challenge over on tumblr, but that depends on what this year's theme is, lol. Feeling very accomplished this month even when there are a lot of things that stress me out.
