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mistressofmuses ([personal profile] mistressofmuses) wrote2019-04-16 05:28 pm
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And again...

And I've fallen behind again.
 
In my defense, I've felt like I've been fighting off some sort of illness, so I've been sleeping a lot. (And as sad as it is to say "fortunately" it does feel like physical ick, not a depressive episode.) There is some extremely nasty strain of flu making its way around, including through my workplace. Several people have had it escalate to pneumonia, so I do NOT want any of that.
 
I did sign up for the Kingdom Hearts Big Bang fic event. :) I was also doing that fic for Camp NaNo (the lower-pressure younger sibling of NaNoWriMo). Due to the aforementioned "sleeping a lot" I haven't gotten as much done as I'd hoped. My goal was to hit 30k words by the end of the month, and try to complete the first draft by the end of May. 
 
Initial estimates were for a 50k fic, but I'm terribly afraid it's going to creep closer to 75k. This was supposed to be the "silly, relatively short, not-to-be-taken-too-seriously, let's just write something without caring too much, trying a new outlining method" fic, dammit. I haven't given up on hitting my goal by the end of the month, but it'll require some serious and sustained effort in the second half. (I'm around 14k right now, but that hasn't all been from this month.)
 
I discovered a plot hole, and created a subplot to address it, and accidentally created a whole new avenue of complication that may be a fun path to go down with the story and make it better in the long run, but wasn't what I was originally trying for.
 
This week I need to formally write up a summary, which is due by the 22nd.
 
I also still need to contact a beta reader. There was a list of volunteers, and I meant to reach out to a couple a week or two ago, and just didn't.
 
My quarterly review (how disgustingly adult) is Wednesday and I'm actually pretty nervous. My job is a weird position, straddling the two sides of the business. There's a maybe-surprising amount of office politics in general within the company, and I am very much a pawn in it. So I hope for the best, but am also... not good at those games.