sword_logic | Entries tagged with writing: trust fall

first and foremost, if you are Here, thank you for going on this fic journey with me in whichever way you’ve done so. this has been a really interesting writing experience for me, and i had a ton of fun posting something weekly again.

i said this over and over in the posts i was making as i worked on this fic, but i tried a lot of new things, and it was really challenging. i think this was the most challenging fic i’ve written, maybe ever, just because it required me to consciously do a lot of things i don’t usually do rather than just being on my bullshit as per usual. P vs NP and no quarter, the only other fics whose word counts and complexity this one rivals, were a lot easier to write, relatively speaking, because, like, it’s just (""""just"""") halo lore. it’s just action/adventure bullshit (affectionate). however, nothing about the plot structure of this fic came naturally to me, so it took some real effort to get this to be what i wanted it to be.

starting off with some miscellaneous notes:

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"i think i'll wait till next week to post," i said, like a lying liar who lies. nah!

today i read over what i wrote this week, and it's really solid. way more solid than i thought it was when i was writing it, honestly. it's hard to estimate the word count since i had a bunch of bits and pieces written beforehand, but i think i did about 7k words this week across two chapters, mostly; there are things i want to go back and add or flesh out in those last three chapters, but after closing up the last major gaps in the front half of the fic, i really am ready for this to go out and see the world. i think i'll post tomorrow evening, depending on how busy the rest of the day is, and if not, possibly sunday (though i'll have a long day of travel). doesn't really matter.

for now, i feel solid about the first five chapters, and the first three in particular; i know i'll pick at chapters 5 and 6 before posting, and i've got bullet points written out for several point in chapter 7 that i want to clean up or flesh out, and more of the same for 8 and 9. i've had a very clear vision for 10 for a while, and i'm feeling good about that one; no specific bullet-point notes there from today's pass, just a general edit.

man! i'm excited to start publishing this fic. i have a few friends whose reactions i'm really looking forward to.

it's full of holes, but it's DONE! it's currently clocking in just shy of 45k words, which is... actually a little less than i thought it would be, lol. i have a lot (a lot) of editing to do, so i'm curious if it'll crack 50k once that's all done. i also have quite the amount of gaps to fill, but those are mostly transitions and connective tissue.

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i had a big breakthrough for this fic on monday! i had originally planned to have a specific plot point happen at about the one-quarter mark because i feel like i haven't seen a lot of writing do this kind of plot point at this point in the plot, but i was really struggling to pace the rest of the fic. as it turns out, you don't see this kind of timing for this kind of plot point for a reason. who'd'a thunk!

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words about words! i'm writing a long...er fic again and, as always, i have Thoughts. (primarily: oh god the word count keeps going up help)

for last year, one of the goals i set (and achieved!) was to write a humorous fic — something funny for the sake of being funny. i really, really love reading humorous fics and i'd tried multiple times to write something start-to-finish humorous (i'm pretty sure there's at least one author's note on my fics saying something like "well this was supposed to be funny"), but i didn't actually achieve it until in stitches. none of the fic i've posted since then has been explicitly humorous start-to-finish, but i've noticed that in general, humor has become much more present as i'm writing; the conscious effort it took to write something humorous really made an impression on me, and i've been wanting to do it again.

so here i am! 15k words into an explicitly humorous fic. with much more to go.

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if i fail, let me be wormfood.

Entries tagged with writing: trust fall

extended author's note: trust fall

fic talk: well, nevermind on the waiting, i guess

fic talk: first draft done!

fic talk: halfway there? maybe?

fic talk: writing about writing

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