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mistressofmuses) wrote2021-01-31 07:29 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2021-01-31 07:29 pm
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Rough draft: done!
Last night I finished the epilogue of All Strange Wonders!
Initially, I'd planned on finishing it up after chapter 19, but then discovered that it really needed an epilogue to wrap the story up. That kind of derailed my brain when it came to writing - I'd planned on being done, and then not being done was hard for me to do. Initially I thought maybe I'd just wait on the epilogue, and write it after I finished the second draft/rewrite. But the more I thought about it, the more that felt like a cop out, so I suffered through it, lol. Last week was not great for writing, but I did manage to do okay.
Now I'm a little torn: I'm not sure if I should keep my momentum going, and head right into working on the rewrite, or if I should do as is usually suggested and let it sit for a while first. It has already been a couple months since I wrote the early chapters (when I started it as my NaNo project), but maybe taking a step back from the whole thing would be the best thing.
If I do that though, then what should I work on? I don't want to get so absorbed in another project that I *don't* want to go back to this one. I usually get pretty fixated on one thing, and struggle with bouncing back and forth between too many things. But I don't want to NOT work on something, because I do want to keep up my more-days-than-not-writing, and have it truly be a habit.
There are some oneshots I could work on, though they're for the same fandom/ship. But they wouldn't be as likely to absorb too much attention, since they're pretty finite. Or maybe I could work on something for a totally different fandom (Silent Hill?), since All Strange Wonders is pretty fluffy fantasy.
Speaking of Silent Hill fic: one small, petty thing that has upset me about Covid. And believe me, I know it's a really petty thing to be upset over in the scheme of all the horrible things about a global pandemic.
Back in 2016, I started planning a Silent Hill fic. Ultimately I wrote (and even finished!) it in fall of 2017, using it as my NaNo project for that year.
I didn't post it anywhere, because at the time, Taylor and I were trying to work on creative writing stuff together, and I wanted them to beta it for me. But... they didn't really have the time, so they only got through a couple chapters. They kept promising they'd try to make time for it, and I didn't want to be pushy, but it didn't really go anywhere. I kept holding off, hoping they would have the time to come back, because they have a really good critical eye, and helped with the first bits so much. But alas.
So back in fall of 2019 I decided I wouldn't keep waiting. It had been on hold for two years, but once I finished Potentials (my superhero AU), I was going to do my own edits, and post the damn Silent Hill fic! I finished Potentials back in May of 2020, right after the lockdown in my area ended, and I was sent back to work.
The problem: The fic is titled "Outbreak", and is about a mysterious illness with variable symptoms that crops up and starts killing people.
Whoops.
It doesn't really matter that in my fic it's ultimately a supernatural thing rather than a medical one, or that I wrote it based on in-game hints about a horrific illness that had struck the town at some point, or that I started planning it back in 2016, or that it has absolutely nothing to do with Covid. I *know* it would be in poor taste to post it. But now I'm mad that I have something I worked on for years and may never really be able to share.
But for now, I have finished the rough draft of my current WIP, and I am going to eat some celebratory cookies before I have to go to plague central for work tomorrow.
Initially, I'd planned on finishing it up after chapter 19, but then discovered that it really needed an epilogue to wrap the story up. That kind of derailed my brain when it came to writing - I'd planned on being done, and then not being done was hard for me to do. Initially I thought maybe I'd just wait on the epilogue, and write it after I finished the second draft/rewrite. But the more I thought about it, the more that felt like a cop out, so I suffered through it, lol. Last week was not great for writing, but I did manage to do okay.
Now I'm a little torn: I'm not sure if I should keep my momentum going, and head right into working on the rewrite, or if I should do as is usually suggested and let it sit for a while first. It has already been a couple months since I wrote the early chapters (when I started it as my NaNo project), but maybe taking a step back from the whole thing would be the best thing.
If I do that though, then what should I work on? I don't want to get so absorbed in another project that I *don't* want to go back to this one. I usually get pretty fixated on one thing, and struggle with bouncing back and forth between too many things. But I don't want to NOT work on something, because I do want to keep up my more-days-than-not-writing, and have it truly be a habit.
There are some oneshots I could work on, though they're for the same fandom/ship. But they wouldn't be as likely to absorb too much attention, since they're pretty finite. Or maybe I could work on something for a totally different fandom (Silent Hill?), since All Strange Wonders is pretty fluffy fantasy.
Speaking of Silent Hill fic: one small, petty thing that has upset me about Covid. And believe me, I know it's a really petty thing to be upset over in the scheme of all the horrible things about a global pandemic.
Back in 2016, I started planning a Silent Hill fic. Ultimately I wrote (and even finished!) it in fall of 2017, using it as my NaNo project for that year.
I didn't post it anywhere, because at the time, Taylor and I were trying to work on creative writing stuff together, and I wanted them to beta it for me. But... they didn't really have the time, so they only got through a couple chapters. They kept promising they'd try to make time for it, and I didn't want to be pushy, but it didn't really go anywhere. I kept holding off, hoping they would have the time to come back, because they have a really good critical eye, and helped with the first bits so much. But alas.
So back in fall of 2019 I decided I wouldn't keep waiting. It had been on hold for two years, but once I finished Potentials (my superhero AU), I was going to do my own edits, and post the damn Silent Hill fic! I finished Potentials back in May of 2020, right after the lockdown in my area ended, and I was sent back to work.
The problem: The fic is titled "Outbreak", and is about a mysterious illness with variable symptoms that crops up and starts killing people.
Whoops.
It doesn't really matter that in my fic it's ultimately a supernatural thing rather than a medical one, or that I wrote it based on in-game hints about a horrific illness that had struck the town at some point, or that I started planning it back in 2016, or that it has absolutely nothing to do with Covid. I *know* it would be in poor taste to post it. But now I'm mad that I have something I worked on for years and may never really be able to share.
But for now, I have finished the rough draft of my current WIP, and I am going to eat some celebratory cookies before I have to go to plague central for work tomorrow.