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ratbonesUm...I'm back? I guess? When I say I'm going to be gone, I post again within a week, and then other times I spontaneously vanish for a month. I don't know why I bother with the concept of planning.
-There is one chapter left to go in All-Consuming. I plan (*weeps*) to post a little followup-y treat a week or two after the last chapter goes up. There will be a post here about the science stuff in the fic, as several people have said that would be interesting or useful, and I've always wanted to write a research paper with dirty jokes and swears in. I might also post something later on about writing process stuff, if I can figure out what would be interesting to people? I know that I like reading others' writing meta but I'm such a baby writer and it feels slightly presumptuous? I probably have something interesting to say though, if I edit my rambling down.
-I started watching The Untamed and I'm up to episode 8. (Please no major spoilers!) So far I'm enjoying myself. There are so many talented actors! Pretty fight scenes! Gorgeous sets! Gorgeous people! And the shippy stuff has made me make squeaky noises a few times. I have no idea what degree of fannishness this thing is going to inspire in me, if any. I'm obviously a slow starter. I do already have a big hearteyes crush on Wen Qing, though. Shh. Don't tell me anything. Just let me suffer at my own pace.
-I don't like to kill spiders. The fast ones kind of yeek me out, but they eat pests and don't actually do anything bad except for looking creepy. I tell myself they're just really small eight-legged cats. So I don't kill them, but there's this one in my bathroom, and I've seen it three or four times now, and it's one of those fast-running ones, and last night when I got out of the shower it was sitting on my glasses. Don't. Don't do that. Please no.
-This would be a good time for me to start deciding what to write next. I think it's sort of happening? I'm inclined to write some short (or shorter, anyway) stuff, because I have some ideas sitting around, but in my limited experience I am more comfortable in the middle of a major project. I have a loose concept for a longish original piece, and maybe I'll tinker with that while writing shorter fics, but I'm not sure that will actually help, because it's only going to fragment my attention further. Maybe I'm worrying too much about it; probably, when I've finally put the cork in All-Consuming and its peripheral material, I'll have the impulse to write something.
-Since I started writing fic, I've stopped regretting every single thing I post on the internet. I just regret everything that's in my own voice. I can't look at my own old entries here, they distress me.
-@sylleblahsome has posted an excerpt of one of our conversations about Zhu Yilong. Please enjoy our adorable banter.
-There is one chapter left to go in All-Consuming. I plan (*weeps*) to post a little followup-y treat a week or two after the last chapter goes up. There will be a post here about the science stuff in the fic, as several people have said that would be interesting or useful, and I've always wanted to write a research paper with dirty jokes and swears in. I might also post something later on about writing process stuff, if I can figure out what would be interesting to people? I know that I like reading others' writing meta but I'm such a baby writer and it feels slightly presumptuous? I probably have something interesting to say though, if I edit my rambling down.
-I started watching The Untamed and I'm up to episode 8. (Please no major spoilers!) So far I'm enjoying myself. There are so many talented actors! Pretty fight scenes! Gorgeous sets! Gorgeous people! And the shippy stuff has made me make squeaky noises a few times. I have no idea what degree of fannishness this thing is going to inspire in me, if any. I'm obviously a slow starter. I do already have a big hearteyes crush on Wen Qing, though. Shh. Don't tell me anything. Just let me suffer at my own pace.
-I don't like to kill spiders. The fast ones kind of yeek me out, but they eat pests and don't actually do anything bad except for looking creepy. I tell myself they're just really small eight-legged cats. So I don't kill them, but there's this one in my bathroom, and I've seen it three or four times now, and it's one of those fast-running ones, and last night when I got out of the shower it was sitting on my glasses. Don't. Don't do that. Please no.
-This would be a good time for me to start deciding what to write next. I think it's sort of happening? I'm inclined to write some short (or shorter, anyway) stuff, because I have some ideas sitting around, but in my limited experience I am more comfortable in the middle of a major project. I have a loose concept for a longish original piece, and maybe I'll tinker with that while writing shorter fics, but I'm not sure that will actually help, because it's only going to fragment my attention further. Maybe I'm worrying too much about it; probably, when I've finally put the cork in All-Consuming and its peripheral material, I'll have the impulse to write something.
-Since I started writing fic, I've stopped regretting every single thing I post on the internet. I just regret everything that's in my own voice. I can't look at my own old entries here, they distress me.
-@sylleblahsome has posted an excerpt of one of our conversations about Zhu Yilong. Please enjoy our adorable banter.
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Date: 2020-02-13 07:38 pm (UTC)So you've seen Lan Yi and Baoshan Sanren? What'd you think of that scene?
I guess you could try out a medium-sized project (20k?) and see how that makes you feel? Also, please post your writerly meta, I wanna read it.
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Date: 2020-02-14 02:14 am (UTC)I'll put it on the forever-snowballing list! Someday.
My notes say "The bunnies were harbingers of the coming of the Exposition Lesbian." There's my hot take! They gay. :P (That makes it sadder, though.) It's a really PRETTY scene, too.
Penguinfriend...if I knew how to aim for a wordcount...lol. I thought All-Consuming was going to be 75k-ish. OOPSIE. I do think that I have something that might be over 10k but under 30k in the plot bunny pit? Maybe? I could give it a shot. I'll also give the meta a shot!
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Date: 2020-02-14 07:14 am (UTC)Just thread-hopping to say LOLOL!
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Date: 2020-02-14 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-14 07:30 am (UTC)Rattiekins, your take is as cold as my Antarctic homeland. *g* They are super gay and obviously so! I can promise that there's fic for them, though idk about fix-its.
Wordcount-aiming is one of those things that comes with practice ime? Eventually one gets a grip on the natural lengths and there's less "this was supposed to be done 25k ago!" Before that, though, it's a long string of "why is this not ending yet???"
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Date: 2020-02-14 09:38 pm (UTC)ahaha, I'm glad to hear that! I was semi-immune to spoilers before because I didn't know who was who and I'm bad with faceless names, but now that I know the characters, I'm staying wayyy out of the AO3 tag, so I have no idea what the fandom is doing!
Yeah, I'm sure I'll be better at predicting my own writing behavior when there's more past behavior to draw from. That might be a ways off yet. I have a pretty decent sense of what's going to fit into a typical-for-me chapter length, at least.
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Date: 2020-02-14 09:51 pm (UTC)Me too, but I did write one (1) fic with those two, so I can confidently say that at least one fic of them must exist! *g*
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Date: 2020-02-14 10:05 pm (UTC)