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WIP Wednesday
Oct. 24th, 2018 05:19 pmReal Life continues to be a thing. Adulting is the worst. And I am tired. So very very tired.
New words this week : 3366 words which brings my October wordcount to a total of 11,931 / 30,000 which is awesome. I'm really really excited about the bits I'm working on now, and my wordage is showing that.
WIPs worked on this week : 1, with no new WIPs (yay!)
HP
☆ Fandom Trumps Hate : 3366 words which brings the total to 84,392 words and you will notice that this is a BIG difference in total wordage from last week. What happened was, I ended up cannibalizing an older fic that's been sitting untouched since 2013. I'd done it for NaNoWriMo and then put it aside to write Stop All the Clocks, and by the time I came back to it I realized that it needed a ton of reworking and I just... never got around to it, and then somewhere in the last couple of years I realized that I was never going to.
But there are a couple of subplots in it that line up with what I was already planning to write for my FTH fic, and after reading back through it I thought that I could actually salvage a bunch of it this way. I pulled out about 30k of potentially-usable words, even though I'm sure that what I actually end up using is going to be nowhere near that much. The characterizations are different, the pacing of their relationship is completely different, and I'm having to completely rewrite even the most usable parts of it... for something thrown together in a few weeks, NaNo 2013 has been pretty impressive in how tightly-constructed it is. There's so much in it that I love and want to use, and can't because it won't make sense without the rest of it. For now, I think there are about 4 scenes (of mostly-dialogue) I know for sure that I can use (albeit, with some pretty extensive rewriting) and the rest... Well, a lot of it might get thrown out entirely by the time I've written my way to the point in the story where it might go because I know how stories evolve as they hit the page. But I lumped it all into my FTH wordcount already because I think that I can keep a more accurate tally of daily wordcounts this way rather than if I keep adding bits in piecemeal as I go, even though I know that the total fic wordage might start looking a little wonky as I start deleting big chunks as I decide I don't want to use them.
So, I'm excited! We'll see how it goes!
New words this week : 3366 words which brings my October wordcount to a total of 11,931 / 30,000 which is awesome. I'm really really excited about the bits I'm working on now, and my wordage is showing that.
WIPs worked on this week : 1, with no new WIPs (yay!)
HP
☆ Fandom Trumps Hate : 3366 words which brings the total to 84,392 words and you will notice that this is a BIG difference in total wordage from last week. What happened was, I ended up cannibalizing an older fic that's been sitting untouched since 2013. I'd done it for NaNoWriMo and then put it aside to write Stop All the Clocks, and by the time I came back to it I realized that it needed a ton of reworking and I just... never got around to it, and then somewhere in the last couple of years I realized that I was never going to.
But there are a couple of subplots in it that line up with what I was already planning to write for my FTH fic, and after reading back through it I thought that I could actually salvage a bunch of it this way. I pulled out about 30k of potentially-usable words, even though I'm sure that what I actually end up using is going to be nowhere near that much. The characterizations are different, the pacing of their relationship is completely different, and I'm having to completely rewrite even the most usable parts of it... for something thrown together in a few weeks, NaNo 2013 has been pretty impressive in how tightly-constructed it is. There's so much in it that I love and want to use, and can't because it won't make sense without the rest of it. For now, I think there are about 4 scenes (of mostly-dialogue) I know for sure that I can use (albeit, with some pretty extensive rewriting) and the rest... Well, a lot of it might get thrown out entirely by the time I've written my way to the point in the story where it might go because I know how stories evolve as they hit the page. But I lumped it all into my FTH wordcount already because I think that I can keep a more accurate tally of daily wordcounts this way rather than if I keep adding bits in piecemeal as I go, even though I know that the total fic wordage might start looking a little wonky as I start deleting big chunks as I decide I don't want to use them.
So, I'm excited! We'll see how it goes!