Mid-January catch-up
Jan. 17th, 2023 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayCan't believe it's past the middle of January already!
So far, it's gone better than 2022 January did i.e. no flu, no other illness. And I'm getting abookmonster visit this weekend!
I've also got something to look forward to: we're doing another family holiday to Centre Parcs in May. It's going to be great (hopefully).
Daily writing is going well and actually happening. So far, I haven't missed a day and even on days when I've had no time to myself, I've found two minutes to open a Google Doc on my phone and add a sentence to one of my WIPs, which is helping a lot in terms of keeping my brain ticking over on them. So far this year, I've written over 7k words.
Speaking of WIPs, I took two active ones into 2023 and now I have another. All Wangxian, because my brain is still there, and all incredibly different from each other. The zombie AU continues to be my main project and it's going to be a big one. I'm 20k in and I know there's still a hell of a lot to write. The world building keeps growing as I think through the way the ideas fit together and that adds extra elements to the plotting. Yeah, it's going to be a novel at this rate.
The other two are...well, I've got this weird thing that's kind of about depression and recovery and learning to be a person again when all you want is to not be a person, because I've got WWX right there and I love the fanon AUs about fox-shifter!WWX so that's where my brain went.
Then there's a fic with a working title of "sex magic AU" that's hopefully going to be firmly on the humorous side and therefore light relief when the other fics get too deep. So far I have 800 words of WWX being outraged that dual cultivation is a real thing because it's such a ridiculous concept, why is that real LWJ? And why do the Lans have an entire collection of books on it? I think most of the fic is just going to be WWX being outraged and grumpy about this while LWJ is annoyingly serene. As it's a post-Untamed fic and WWX is still figuring out his feelings for LWJ, it's got the potential for WWX to be grumpily (vocally) outraged about all of this while voluntarily getting railed through a mattress for the first time (because it makes sense for it to be us to do it, LWJ, if anyone has to do this) and I just think that's very funny.
I'm currently at 199 works published on AO3. The next fic I publish will be my 200th work.
I really want that to be something brilliant and complex. A fic novel. One of those fics I can point to and go "I'm so proud of that fic because it did all this great stuff and really pushed me as a writer".
I strongly suspect it's going to be the sex magic AU because that will probably be faster to finish than the zombie AU. That probably says everything about me and my history as a fanfic writer, TBH.
So far, it's gone better than 2022 January did i.e. no flu, no other illness. And I'm getting a
bookmonster visit this weekend!I've also got something to look forward to: we're doing another family holiday to Centre Parcs in May. It's going to be great (hopefully).
Daily writing is going well and actually happening. So far, I haven't missed a day and even on days when I've had no time to myself, I've found two minutes to open a Google Doc on my phone and add a sentence to one of my WIPs, which is helping a lot in terms of keeping my brain ticking over on them. So far this year, I've written over 7k words.
Speaking of WIPs, I took two active ones into 2023 and now I have another. All Wangxian, because my brain is still there, and all incredibly different from each other. The zombie AU continues to be my main project and it's going to be a big one. I'm 20k in and I know there's still a hell of a lot to write. The world building keeps growing as I think through the way the ideas fit together and that adds extra elements to the plotting. Yeah, it's going to be a novel at this rate.
The other two are...well, I've got this weird thing that's kind of about depression and recovery and learning to be a person again when all you want is to not be a person, because I've got WWX right there and I love the fanon AUs about fox-shifter!WWX so that's where my brain went.
Then there's a fic with a working title of "sex magic AU" that's hopefully going to be firmly on the humorous side and therefore light relief when the other fics get too deep. So far I have 800 words of WWX being outraged that dual cultivation is a real thing because it's such a ridiculous concept, why is that real LWJ? And why do the Lans have an entire collection of books on it? I think most of the fic is just going to be WWX being outraged and grumpy about this while LWJ is annoyingly serene. As it's a post-Untamed fic and WWX is still figuring out his feelings for LWJ, it's got the potential for WWX to be grumpily (vocally) outraged about all of this while voluntarily getting railed through a mattress for the first time (because it makes sense for it to be us to do it, LWJ, if anyone has to do this) and I just think that's very funny.
I'm currently at 199 works published on AO3. The next fic I publish will be my 200th work.
I really want that to be something brilliant and complex. A fic novel. One of those fics I can point to and go "I'm so proud of that fic because it did all this great stuff and really pushed me as a writer".
I strongly suspect it's going to be the sex magic AU because that will probably be faster to finish than the zombie AU. That probably says everything about me and my history as a fanfic writer, TBH.