NaNo roundup and writing plans
Dec. 3rd, 2013 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI actually made it to 50k during NaNoWriMo :-D This was completely unexpected because I'd started the month just hoping to get to 30k, which would have been a bit of a record for me. I think my previous highest month was 27k, when I wrote Dreams and Circus Crowds in the course of one month.
41k of that was finishing the crackfic wingfic AU. The other 9k was split between a couple of shorter fics (one of those still needs editing and posting) and the first scenes for a couple of fics. So not 50k on one story, which means I was a NaNo rebel, but still 50k of fiction in the space of one month. Suddenly, aiming for a monthly average of 30k and actually writing a novel or two looks much more achievable!
I'm aiming to get the crackfic wingfic AU edited, beta'd, and re-edited by December 23rd or 24th, so it'll be my Christmas-time fic offering. It's unlikely that I'll actually do a Christmas themed fic this year, but 65k of fluff and angst and self-indulgent Clint/Coulson romance works for some people, right?
The only other deadline I have this month is Yuletide so I'm feeling much more relaxed than I was this time last year. Hopefully I can get my first draft done this week, which will give me two weeks for beta-ing and editing. I've started it finally, so my Yuletide panic levels are already subsiding from where they were on Sunday.
I'm making notes and writing down ideas for some new projects, which I'm looking forward to. Tentative schedule for Stuff To Write next year is:
1. Agents of Shield Big Bang (high school AU, 15k minimum)
2. Zombie Circus (original novel - steampunk, there are no zombies)
3. Actor AU (C/C AU novel, potentially my Marvel Big Bang fic so 10k minimum)
4. Original novel loosely based on Clockwork Murders
I've got some shorter (sub-10k) fics that I want to play with before starting those/inbetween writing those and I could veer off into some completely different things, but those are the four projects I'm feeling really excited about writing and I'm already doing research for.
Oh god, next year could end up being even more productive than this year was!
41k of that was finishing the crackfic wingfic AU. The other 9k was split between a couple of shorter fics (one of those still needs editing and posting) and the first scenes for a couple of fics. So not 50k on one story, which means I was a NaNo rebel, but still 50k of fiction in the space of one month. Suddenly, aiming for a monthly average of 30k and actually writing a novel or two looks much more achievable!
I'm aiming to get the crackfic wingfic AU edited, beta'd, and re-edited by December 23rd or 24th, so it'll be my Christmas-time fic offering. It's unlikely that I'll actually do a Christmas themed fic this year, but 65k of fluff and angst and self-indulgent Clint/Coulson romance works for some people, right?
The only other deadline I have this month is Yuletide so I'm feeling much more relaxed than I was this time last year. Hopefully I can get my first draft done this week, which will give me two weeks for beta-ing and editing. I've started it finally, so my Yuletide panic levels are already subsiding from where they were on Sunday.
I'm making notes and writing down ideas for some new projects, which I'm looking forward to. Tentative schedule for Stuff To Write next year is:
1. Agents of Shield Big Bang (high school AU, 15k minimum)
2. Zombie Circus (original novel - steampunk, there are no zombies)
3. Actor AU (C/C AU novel, potentially my Marvel Big Bang fic so 10k minimum)
4. Original novel loosely based on Clockwork Murders
I've got some shorter (sub-10k) fics that I want to play with before starting those/inbetween writing those and I could veer off into some completely different things, but those are the four projects I'm feeling really excited about writing and I'm already doing research for.
Oh god, next year could end up being even more productive than this year was!
