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Found this cool yearly wrap up questionnaire for fanfic writers on tumblr (here) and thought it looked fun. Posting my fills here because long posts are harder to write out on tumblr -- and also in case anyone on DW would like to snag it and fill it out for themselves. :)

( 2024 Fanfic Review )

NaNo Day 16 and I'm finally caught up!! More than that, I'm ahead on my wordcount! My local writing group hosted a twelve hour writing marathon today at a nearby library and we all wrote like crazy. I went into the marathon 7k words behind, and came out almost 1k ahead. So happy right now. My original goal for this year was to simply hit the halfway point, but now I've just hit that and it's only halfway through the month. Maybe this will be the first year I actually complete NaNoWriMo?

Oof, writing is hard. Why is this the hobby I've chosen to let consume my life?

I got off to a decent start this month. On Nov 5th, I was not only on track, but actually ahead of the wordcount goal by a few hundred. Sadly, that didn't last long. Between trouble at work and dealing with a family emergency, I did almost no writing on the 6th and 7th, putting me now several thousand behind.

I've found I write best when writing with a group of friends. Thankfully, my regional group meets twice a week for writing sessions. Hoping I can get at least somewhat caught up at the next writing event. In the meantime, I'll keep trying my best to chip away at the now mountain of words that have piled up in front of me.

On a side note, I've been using the Trackbear app for keeping track of my wordcount and here is the app's summary for where I'm at as of this morning:

I'm challenging myself to create one fanwork for every day of December. Fics, icons, rec lists, photo manips, whatever. As long as I create something for each day. I'm mainly going to be focusing on finishing some of my wips, but of course requests are also welcome.

The main reason for this is to make sure I hit some of my progress goals for the year before 2023 is over. But also I haven't been very active in fandom stuff this year and I'd like to at least finish the year with a fun challenge for myself.

(Banner credit to Purpleyin )

Hey, I actually remembered this week! :)

I've been doing some editing and rewriting on one of my Savifrost fics "Waiting for Tomorrow" so I thought I'd share a little snippet of the scene I'm currently working on. For context, this story takes place in an AU version of the season three finale, in which Savitar and Frost are redeemed. This specific scene takes place in the first chapter, after the big fight/confrontation in the woods, when the heroes gather in STAR Labs to discuss Savitar's fate.

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Banner by @Purpleyin on tumblr

I actually remembered this week! Yay! ;)

So, for WIP Wednesday this week I decided to post a little snippet from a Clois fic that I've had in my projects folder for over two years now. Not because it's a long or involved project, but simply because I've never had the time or motivation to sit down and finish the thing. I'm working on catching up with Superman & Lois now, though, so I hope it will reignite my desire to write for this fandom and maybe then I can sit down and finish all the incomplete S&L fics sitting around my computer.

Anyway, here's the snippet:

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WIP Update: The Chess Master

Thanks to a kind commenter on AO3, I was recently reminded that I still need to get to work editing/revising part one of The Chess Master so I can get the rest of the fic posted to AO3. I've decided to make the chapters here on dreamwidth private for now since I think I'd like to update those with the revised version as well.

Anyway, update time! The first three chapters are completely done. Fourth and fifth chapters are like 80% done. The rest is still very much a work in progress, but I consider that a pretty good start. I've made it one of my writing goals for 2023 to get it completely finished before the end of the year. Hopefully, though, I'll actually have it done by the end of the summer. Then I can get started posting part two in time for the 2023 Whumptober challenge! I think that'd be a fitting time to start posting it since I started part one for the 2020 challenge.

So, yeah, just wanted to celebrate what feels like a good start to this project. Hopefully I'll have more good news to report soon. <3

Well, I feel like I made good progress on "Road To War" during NaNoWriMo this year. This story is over 12k words at this point and the plot outline is coming along nicely. At least I have a good direction of the story right now and I've got my beginning and end points figured out, now it's just the challenge of mapping out everything that comes between lol.

I've made a few changes to what I'd initially envisioned for this story. First, I'm going to be incorporating a lot of elements from the comics for this. I want it still set in the DCAMU world, so everything will have to be tweaked to fit with that canon, but I want to try bringing in a lot of the comics storylines and characters and plot points. Guardian and Dubbilex are going to be there for sure (I've already written the scene where they first meet him, and have dubbed it "two aces adopt son" in my plot outline lmao) as will most of the other Cadmus characters. Also, I can't decide what to call Superboy in this fic. Kon feels right, since it will be focusing on his early days and his association with Cadmus, but they already said at the end of Reign of the Supermen that he was named Conner. I'll have to debate that a little bit and figure out which feels more right.

Anyway, "Road to War" is going into the closet for a while. I'm burnt out after the rush of NaNo and feel like I need to relax and work on other fics for now. It'll be back when I'm ready to tackle it again.

Update! "Road To War" has passed the 10k word count mark!!

"Shatterproof" is a fic I started writing back in late 2019 or early 2020. It's a Psych fanfic that deals with the aftermath of the episode "Mr Yin Presents" and tackles Shawn's bad habit of repressing trauma. It was my attempt at incorporating psychological horror themes into a story that takes place in a more real-world setting (since I usually only write scifi and superhero stuff). Anyway, this little snippet is a scene that I wrote for the 2020 Whumptober challenge on Tumblr and I want to move it here for safekeeping. I do want to sit down someday and write this out as a full fic, but that's after I finish some of my other WIPs first.

Fandom: Psych
Characters: Shawn Spencer, Burton Guster
Words: 1,590
Rating: T
Warnings: Hallucinations, paranoia, blood, drowning, loss of reality

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