fic talk: woof

[sword_logic]

finally jarred something loose in me today with dndfic. sprinted with kei afterwards, wrote 423 words where i'd been able to do zero for months, and decided to finally start pulling endgame bits from my doc full of fragments.

i started the sprint at 83,821 words, and with some more additions and 2,674 words copied over from my fragments doc, i'm currently sitting at 87,309 words. (uh... damn, that's nearly 1k of new words today, i think.) The General Everything has made it so hard for me to write anything this past month and this feels like a huge breakthrough for me. i think it also hasn't helped that i'm coming up on the end of this fic and it's really weirdly intimidating. i've known how this will end for years, and yet i can't bring myself to just... do it.

in any case, the plan now is to slowly continue pasting things over from my fragments doc, stringing them together as best i can until i've got a workable and extremely rough draft, and then once i get over the hurdle of being done (!! !!!!!!), i can sit down and edit and fill gaps. again, i'm blaming The Everything right now for this, but i've been uncharacteristically un-confident in this fic lately and i'm sick of feeling like that. i will do this, and then i will hopefully maybe get this beta'd if anyone is willing and able, and then it'll be done.