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Dec. 24th, 2022
Twas the night before Christmas
Dec. 24th, 2022 10:59 pmI was working on 3 Christmas fics leading up to Christmas and had a goal of completing 2, but the last few days have been hot messes. Cold, evacuations in the cold, loud sounds that I cannot make stop, needing to secure my stuff in case of indoor rain, etc. I just can't write under those conditions.
I do have one done, sort of. It needs polish. It's currently at 4k words.
I could try to polish it and finish it tomorrow, so sort of by Christmas... but I forgot I live on the West Coast of America and that means Christmas will be over for most of the world by then. I'll probably keep working on it and post it when it's polished even if it feels dumb to post then. I still hope to have that and at least one other project done this year.
I'd be in much better shape, but I'd been doing a lot of getting an idea while writing, then pausing to do a full beat sheet and theme summary so I don't lose the idea. That is not a bad thing. Arcs and having stories with a good ending not just a interesting opener were something I struggled with for a long time. For a long time I really, really wanted to write but didn't know what I wanted to write, or how to make arcs that I found satisfying. So, now that I can just plot/beat things out I am wanting to do so a lot. It's sort of good and bad. On one hand it's great practice and is going to help get me where I want to go, but at the same time I plotted out in detail a Steddie version of a Christmas move I saw because it was an interesting idea, but I was never going to get it done this year. It was... okay I can't see a list of what I've seen recently on Amazon Prime but it was something about two people each surprising each other at Christmas by going to each other's family's house on Christmas eve, getting snowed in and then being stuck alone with each other's family for Christmas. If I had just not worked on that, maybe I'd be in a lot better shape. Ah, well.
However the rest of the year shakes out, I am going to keep working on stuff.
I do have one done, sort of. It needs polish. It's currently at 4k words.
It's not quite this meme, but yeahhh...
I could try to polish it and finish it tomorrow, so sort of by Christmas... but I forgot I live on the West Coast of America and that means Christmas will be over for most of the world by then. I'll probably keep working on it and post it when it's polished even if it feels dumb to post then. I still hope to have that and at least one other project done this year.
I'd be in much better shape, but I'd been doing a lot of getting an idea while writing, then pausing to do a full beat sheet and theme summary so I don't lose the idea. That is not a bad thing. Arcs and having stories with a good ending not just a interesting opener were something I struggled with for a long time. For a long time I really, really wanted to write but didn't know what I wanted to write, or how to make arcs that I found satisfying. So, now that I can just plot/beat things out I am wanting to do so a lot. It's sort of good and bad. On one hand it's great practice and is going to help get me where I want to go, but at the same time I plotted out in detail a Steddie version of a Christmas move I saw because it was an interesting idea, but I was never going to get it done this year. It was... okay I can't see a list of what I've seen recently on Amazon Prime but it was something about two people each surprising each other at Christmas by going to each other's family's house on Christmas eve, getting snowed in and then being stuck alone with each other's family for Christmas. If I had just not worked on that, maybe I'd be in a lot better shape. Ah, well.
However the rest of the year shakes out, I am going to keep working on stuff.