mistressofmuses | So damn tired of being so damn tired...

~~...and other things that I always roll my eyes at.~~

But it isn't even 8:00 and I feel like I could easily fall asleep.

I want to try and get a decent night's sleep, because I want to be awake to hang out with Taylor tomorrow night.

But I've also got a lot of fic to write, sobcry.

A little afraid that any words I do get will come out as mush, because I've been struggling with words all day, but we'll see! Hopefully I get a bit of a second wind and can keep going for a couple hours.

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Later addition:

It's about 10:15, and I am wimping out, haha.

I think I'm gonna "cheat" on the Mermay fic... I'm going to make it a multi-chapter fic instead.

It's absolutely going to be over 5k... maybe more like 7k-8k-ish? That isn't so long that it *couldn't* be posted as a oneshot by any means. (There are writers who post oneshots that are near novel-length in their own right.)

But I also think the first 2500 words or so feel like a complete chapter. This way I can still post SOMETHING before the month is out, and give myself a wee bit more room to get the rest finished. It'll probably wind up being 3 chapters total.

Am I going to regret that as I struggle to finish it AND pick + write my Unconventional Courtship prompt AND prepare to start posting All Strange Wonders? YOU BET I AM.

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I'd like to caution you to listen to your body if you need the sleep that badly, but I don't know your circumstances well enough, so I'll just say that I hope you both get some writing done and enough rest, if possible.

Yeah, I'm sending up the white flag tonight, haha. Especially since I'll be sleeping on my sibling's couch tomorrow night, lol, so I should try to go in well-rested.

My compromise is that I think I'm going to make the Mermay fic a multi-chap, so I can post the pretty well-contained part I have completed before the end of the month, and then take enough time to make the rest not suck, lol. (Or that's the hope.)

Go you on your fics! And yeah, listen to your instincts where chapters and such are concerned. I'm currently working on the second story to the Scott/Tony fic, and uh. Yeah. It's over 24k words right now, but there aren't points that I feel would be good as chapters of this fic. I might try to do that for future ones, but this one is just sort of one long stream of a 'date weekend', so chapters really don't make sense. It's just going to be a longfic, esp since, aside from Hemispheres, which is a multi part/multi chapter fic, this fic now exceeds the length of all my other fics. O_o I hope people won't hate me for how long it is.

Thank you!

I'm a big fan of "chapters need to be as long or short as they need to be." Sometimes a short chapter is the right choice, because it's a complete chapter arc. Sometimes a whole 25k+ fic is a single chapter, because it IS just one arc, and doesn't have any natural break points, and splitting it would interrupt the flow.

I look forward to reading it! I doubt people will hate you for it - I guess there's shit about chapter length and total fic length out there, but... idk, some people hate oneshots, some people won't touch anything over 5k, some people only want 100k+ epics... so I feel like whatever chapter count/length/total wordcount/etc. combo you pick, it'll find its right audience.

I'm kind of the same way. I was worried during the last couple of chapters of Hemispheres that I wasn't writing long enough chapters (compared, of course, to other writers), and I nipped that shit right in the bud and put it into my brain that chapters will be as long or as short as they need to be. Period. I'm trying really hard (and slowly succeeding) not to compare myself to other writers, so that's been a challenge.

I'm really hoping that people will read this chapter (if the fucker will ever get finished, I swear) and love it. I'm kind of going whole hog on romance and cuddling (and sex but first and foremost romance and cuddling) and humor with this story, and it seems to be paying off. A friend who's also started writing a Scott/Tony fic has gotten me into making mood boards, I think I may have mentioned. Are you doing that for your fics? Or playlists? I haven't done the playlist thing. I just listen to a type of music on my Pandora that fuels the writing. I hope you'll like it when you read it! I know that Marvel isn't your primary domain, but at least, you know some of the players a little well. LOL

I feel your struggle - I compare myself to other writers (or to vague pieces of advice and stated preferences I've seen somewhere.) I KNOW that it isn't helpful or productive, so I try to make sure that I don't fall into that trap. But on the fic I just finished the second draft of, I've been low-key nervous that the chapters vary from around 2400 to 5200 words, which is a pretty wide range. But those are the lengths that suit the narrative, so if people want to be upset about some chapters being longer or shorter, that's their problem.

It sounds like you're having fun with it, so that's good! I make kind of moodboard/covers for fics as a "reward" to me for getting them ready for posting. The fic I posted a link to last night has a moodboard attached. I saw the one you shared to the scott/tony tumblr!

I have a playlist/soundtrack for my extremely long who-knows-if-I'll-ever-write it fic, but haven't really put them together for anything else. Some fics get a couple songs that fit the vibe really well, though. (I don't title a *lot* of fics after song lyrics, but sometimes I give in.) If I'm able to listen to music while I write, I have a specific writing playlist full mostly of sweeping fantasy instrumentals, which help me focus but not get distracted.

It's true that I don't know a lot about Marvel, ha. I absorb bits of it vicariously through the stuff you and a few other people on tumblr post, haha.

So damn tired of being so damn tired...

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