WIP Wednesday

Total words this week : 1772 words bringing my total for the month up to 8107 / 40000.

WIPs worked on this week : 2, no new WIPs (yay!)

HP
Draco Tops Harry fic : 1676 words which brings the total up to 6816. I am probably somewhere around 20% complete on this, which is way longer than I wanted it to run, and I'm starting to think that maybe I should consider dropping? I'm still well before the deadline so I think I'm going to give it another week or so and cross my fingers for some sort of wordcount miracle before I make a decision. But yikes. I was aiming for 8-10k. And in almost 7k I've only just gotten through the set-up and am about to start on what the prompt actually asked for.

MCU
Recovery & Separation (working title) : 96 words which brings the total up to 7455. I'm always disappointed that most of the fic out there focuses so hard on Bucky's recovery that it completely ignores how enormously and deeply depressed Steve is. So, this is sort of a response to that? The whole thing is basically how two people who are each hugely traumatized in different ways can navigate through their recoveries and a relationship at the same time, without dragging each other down or becoming unhealthily co-dependent. (Spoiler: not very well.) So much angst, so much feels. 'This is an excellent fic idea,' I think to myself as I open the doc. 'Oh wow I do not have the emotional energy to write this fucking thing right now,' I think to myself ten minutes later as I close the doc again.

February Wrap-Up / March Goals

Holy cow, we're two months into the year already and I have no idea where the time went.

2017 Total Wordcount Goal : 12560 / 300,000 Which puts me waaay behind for the year so far; I should be at 50k by now. I'd need to hit 75k by the end of March to get caught up and that is not a thing that's going to happen.

February Wrap-Up : I ended the month with 8107 words which didn't even come close to meeting my goal of 40000. A total of 8 WIPs got new words: 5 HP, 2 MCU, and 1 Check, Please! Only one of those was a new WIP, so I'm pretty pleased with that at least.

( Total Wordcounts )

March Wordcount Goal : 15k Dropping this way down from Jan/Feb. Realistically I think my goal should be more like 10k but, I'm trying to be optimistic. Unfortunately things in Real Life are complicated and kind of bad right now, which is a big part of why I'm not making very many words at the moment. My biggest source of stress is something that's going to be ongoing through the end of April, so. That's a thing. After I finish DTH and FTH (goals below) I think that I might be shifting back to what I've done the past couple of years, where I prioritize making any words at all over getting fics done and posted. I mean, this is how I ended up with over 360k in unposted WIPs, so it's not exactly ideal. But making any words at all is better than making no words, even if the words I'm making are scattered over a billion different things. So I'm okay with the WIP Folder of Doom getting a little bit scarier in the meantime. I'm banking on the fact that someday I'm going to get my ability to focus back and then having lots of partially-finished things will suddenly be a great advantage, because it'll mean that I'll be able to finish and post lots of fic very quickly, and that'd be really fantastic.


March Fics to Focus On

Draco Tops Harry fic : Currently at 6455. I had a little blip of good progress on this mid-month and the rest of the time it's just been a struggle to get any words at all. I think feedback might help, though I was hoping to get at least this next scene wrapped up before I sent it to my beta. But I don't know if I should bother, since I'm starting to consider dropping, and I hate to waste her time making her read something that next week I might go, lol never mind I dropped this fest. So I don't quite know what to do. Maybe a miracle will happen and words will start flowing again. Estimated finished wordcount, omg, 30k what am I even doing.

Fandom Trumps Hate : Currently at 0, although I did make a google doc for it where I wrote down some notes. I have a few ideas I'm sort of thinking about but still nothing concrete. My goal right now is to come up with an idea and run it by the recipient to make sure it's okay, and hopefully I'll be ready to start making words on this by later this month. ::crosses fingers:: I owe at least 30k on this, though I'm not going to worry overmuch if it runs long. My recipient is being incredibly patient with me and totally deserves extra words.


Additional Goals
Comment Replies : I'm still making progress on this, little by little. I'm going to keep working on it this month.