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And another year of NaNo has come to an end. I thought I had this one for a while there, but sadly work and health got in the way. Final word count came to 39,239. Oh well. Hoping for better word counts next year.

I'm actually surprised at where my word count is at this point. It managed to stay pretty even with the daily goal for 50k total, slipped a little bit over the last couple days, and then jumped back up there after a very long writing marathon at my local library. Currently sitting at 26,041 words! I know I'm technically only aiming for 25k this year, but I'm starting to think I can actually hit the full 50k goal.

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Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A — Are We Saying Hello Or Goodbye? (Eureka, Zane/Jo)
B — Be Careful What You Bottle Up (Hitman's Bodyguard, Kincaid & Bryce)
C — Coming Home To You (KPDH, Rumi/Jinu)
D — Damage Control (The Finder, Leo & Walter)
E — Every Robin Must Learn To Fly (Batfamily, Dick & Damian)
F — Feline Acquisition 101 (Community, Jeff Winger)
G — Got To Have Faith (DC Comics, Clark/Lois)
H — Hyperfocus (Psych, Shawn Spencer)
I — In Hindsight (Psych, Shawn & Gus)
J —
K — Kissing The Sunrise (Superman & Lois, Clark/Lois)
L — Let's Love Like There's No Goodbyes (DC Comics, Clark/Lois)
M — A Man Called PSYCH (Psych, Shawn & Carlton)
N — No One Left Behind (6 Underground, One & Team)
O — The Other Side Of The Apocalypse (Teen Wolf, Scott/Allison/Isaac)
P — Power (Farscape, John Crichton)
Q —
R — A Random Lottery Of Meaningless Tragedy (ER, John Carter)
S — Shelter In The Storm (Tracker, Colter/Reenie)
T — Twist The Knife Again (Tracker, Colter Shaw)
U — Under The Weather (Superman & Lois, Clark/Lois)
V — A Very Long Night (Stargate Atlantis, Lorne's Team)
W — What Would You Trade The Pain For? (Teen Wolf, Scott McCall)
X —
Y — Y2K Part Two (Wildstorm Comics)
Z —

22/26 Not bad! While putting together this list I realized that I have way too many fic titles starting with the letters T and W. And apparently I've reused a couple titles more than once - oops. The rules say to also mention total fic count but that'd be a lot of work since my fics are scattered across dozens of different sites, and I'm way too lazy to track them all down lol.

Here's the meme for anyone else who would like to try it:

<b>Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.</b> A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — X — Y — Z —

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I'm participating in the Flufftober bingo event and one of the prompts on my card is "Sort all your WIPs" so this post is my attempt at doing that. I'm not going to bother listing any WIPs that have been completely abandoned, only ones that I still intend to finish (someday).

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...and it's done!! I lost track of posting updates at around the halfway point, but that's because I was fully focused on my writing.

Total words: 50,061!!!

I won NaNo for the first time ever. I'm so happy and relieved and also just dead exhausted. Will need to take a very long break from writing for a while. I'm happy I did it, and I'm actually really sad it's over, but also I never want to see another word doc again lol.

NaNo Day 11 and I'm finally starting to catch back up! So close to reaching the official daily goal, I'm hoping to get there by this weekend.

My stats from Trackbear:

With the end of October and beginning of November, I'm finishing out my Octoberfics challenge fics and immediately pivoting into NaNoWriMo. Because who needs sleep?

I already covered in this post on my blog how I'm not going to be participating in the "official" event this year, but will still be doing the 50k in November challenge with my local regional group. I'm currently using a combo of google spreadsheet and the Trackbear software to track my wordcount so I don't have to use the official website.

Anyway, since all my free time will be taken up with writing for the next month, I don't expect I'll be very active over here during that time. I'll also probably not be posting any new fanfics since all my writing energy needs to go into my NaNo project.

Good luck to anyone else doing the challenge (or challenges of your own) in November. Happy writing!

I'm participating in nanowrimo again this year! I'll be joining as a "NaNoRebel" this time, though. Between a new job, an upcoming surgery, and other personal stuff, there won't be a lot of free time for me in November. So instead of starting a new project and attempting a full 50k words in 30 days, I'll just be picking back up one of my long abandoned WIPs and challenging myself to finish it by the end of the month. Luckily, I found a group of other NaNo rebels on the site forum and we're all going to be breaking the rules together lol. Anyway, I wish a lot of luck to anyone else attempting NaNo this month and hope you get your desired wordcounts! <3

It's halfway through the year now, so it seems like a good time to check in on my 2023 fandom goals and see where I'm at.

Original goal list:

• Write 50,000 words total
• Complete at least two of my bingo cards
• Make 100 new icons
• Continue writing "Road To War"
• Finish rewriting/editing "The Chess Master, Part 1"
• Write at least ten comic reviews
• Finish chapter five of "To Find Healing"

First, my total word count. I'm currently at 38,420 words for this year. That puts me at well over the halfway mark already. I'm optimistic that I can at least accomplish that goal by the end of the year, even if the others might not be coming along as well, lol.
Second, bingo cards! So far this year, I've completed one prompt on my Fall Bingo card, one on my AFAngst card, and one for my BTHB card. Not great, but I'm hoping to do better this fall.
Third, icon making. That's... not going quite as great as my word count. So far, I've made 39 and the goal is 100. I'm thinking it's time to join a new icon challenge, to help get me motivating and creating more.
Let's not talk about the comic reviews right now. -_- That's something I really want get back into after my move, but I'm just too busy right now to even read comics, let alone review them.
Lastly, WIP updates! I actually have managed to get quite a bit worked on in both "The Chess Master" and "To Find Healing". I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. "Road To War" is still coming along very slowly, but I'm not as worried about that one. It's more of my comfort project that I doubt anyone will read anyway lol.

So yeah, not a bad first half of the year, but I'm hoping to do better in the second half. Fingers crossed! :)

Better late than never! I've been posting for this on my personal journal, but I want to do something for the event on this journal as well. I'm going to be posting some icons, fics, and fandom meta this next week. Also, I think I'd like to be more active here on dreamwidth even after the event ends, so I want to start doing weekly fannish posts. I've seen other users here and on tumblr participate in WIP Wednesday and Fannish Friday, so I think I'd like to start doing that as well. So, WIP updates and snippets on Wednesdays and then use Friday as a day to celebrate fandom in general, maybe with some meta posts or fanwork rec lists.

Anyway, happy anniversary Dreamwidth!