lomonaaeren

So I’ve recently ended two stories, and I find myself at a little bit of a loss as to what to do next.

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The ones that are the angstiest are also the ones that have the most interesting plot ideas, so we’ll see how this goes. Maybe I should choose one angsty one and one lighter one?

I'm sorry, but I don't have a fic chapter to post today. So this is a list of my one-shots currently in progress, bar any that have to remain anonymous because of the fests they’re for. This is a sort of house-cleaning procedure, so that I can keep track of what I have, and stop getting distracted for a while by shiny new ideas.

( In roughly alphabetical order, with small previews )

I probably won’t be able to update today, but I thought I’d do a quick post about bits of stories that I started writing and then, for one reason or another, quit on. They’re still sitting around on my computer, and I might even finish them at some point!

( Bits and bobs )

I'm working on this bastard of a fest fic that I really want to get finished. I'm not that many words from the end, or so I've thought, but these last scenes are the longest in the entire story, and working on them slowly day-by-day is a) driving me crazy and b) probably not the best choice, because of their rhythm. So I'm putting my WiPs on hold until I finish this thing.

Luckily, I don't think I have more than 10- or 12,000 words to go until the end, 16,000 at the very outside. I have done that much in a single day before. Then I can start working on the others again.

Okay.

First of all, I’m sorry I haven’t been responding to comments as much lately. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed with trying to get all the writing I want to do, as well as the daily job things I have to do, done. I keep thinking that I need to answer all the comments at once, and I do start out with that intention, but then I don’t have time and start worrying about what will happen if I stay up late to make more time (I am a terrible person when I have not had at least seven hours of sleep), and I don’t finish.

I do want to say: Thank you so much for the appreciation. It makes my day to know that people enjoy these stories.

I’m going to cut back on some of the insane things I was trying to do*. After all, unless it’s a fic I promised to write for a definite deadline, I’m not on a mandated schedule for posting stories, and I don’t have to feel bad about taking a day off now and then or writing less than a “perfect” amount of words each day. 5000 words a day, 4000 on the main fic and 1000 on Sympathy for the Predators, seems to be my comfort limit. That’s still 35,000 words a week, which is damn plenty.

And now: long-overdue thanks to red_rahl, inviticus1, and sthelen for the virtual gifts. They brightened my day.

Thanks as well to duchessa. I’m so glad that you liked Starfire Nights! That’s the one-shot I’ve most enjoyed writing in several months. Playing in the Changing of the Guard universe again was a wonderful vacation.

( Current ideas )

( New ideas )

*Like writing a fest fic at the same time as everything else. Fuck, the damn thing is not due for two months, I have 8000 words already, and I work best under deadline pressure anyway. What was I thinking?

is that then I have more things to edit, and they pile up more quickly than I have time to edit them while I'm also writing. And then the writing produces more fics, and the problem increases.

( My life, so hard )

Sorry to say, there will be no update on Practicing Liars today; I’m not going to have enough time to write or post. Instead, I’m snatching time to put up a short progress report instead.

( WiPs )

( New ideas )

Also, if there’s anyone (especially people who gave me a virtual gift!) who wants to make a request for a short fic, 2000 words or under, you can do it here. I do best with very specific prompts for short fics.

So “Bastardy/Opportunity,” the long one-shot I’m working on now, will probably be done in a week at the latest, and I have several ideas that I would like to write next but which I can’t choose between. (Note that all these are long one-shots, rather than fics that I think will require multiple chapters or a novel-length story to complete. Note also that I tend to produce 4000 words a day, so longer fics take longer to post unless I post them in parts).

( Here are brief descriptions of each )

[Poll #1482234]

A new fic idea, which I wanted to give a title before I posted about it but which is evidently going to remain nameless for now. Like “A Black Stone in a Glass Box,” very self-indulgent.

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This is a “Harry pursues Draco, but without having loved him for a long time” kind of story—which is about the only way I can write one, because I find it hard to conceive of Harry being in love with Draco for years without prolonged friendly contact. But it also involves identity and power and magical power and mystery. So, self-indulgent.

I cannot believe that I have another new story that won’t leave me alone. Another story that would have to be novel-length, no less.

Plus, it’s similar to a story I already wrote, Universal Chaos, making me more reluctant to write it. I explained this to the new idea. It did not appear to be impressed.

It doesn’t even have the courtesy to have a title yet (though I am considering ‘Sleepless’.)

Anyway. Here it is.

( The alternate dream universe )

Honestly. I kept waking up last night because the story had new plot details that it wanted to plant in my head, and now here are 800 words of babbling about it. Sometimes I think my imagination should be muzzled.