threading_in_dreams

If my intention with these wordcount posts is to keep myself on check, I should really have posted this last saturday.
So pretend I did just that.

Wordcount on Of masks and dances is as follows:

• 8.2k on chapter 20
• 1k on chapter 21, but I'm not sure those scenes belong there

As things usually go, this is not a bad number. Only when I think about how I'm missing 50% of the chapter I sigh and admit that many of those words are Wrong and I need to take a walk and think about what's supposed to happen, what I want to happen and what sort of candy* I can sneak inside the chapter.

That said, I regret to inform you that I'm getting brainwormed with 2 (!!) different stories related to Masks. They might be extras or I can mush then into a single follow-up (I got a perfect name), but then again they might just go into Story Limbo. I got so many fics into Story Limbo. So many.

Regardless, this is a spot of trouble, since I'm supposed to think about a certain point in the story's timeline and I'm drifting into 2 other points (one past, one future). So yeah.


* Candy, of course, is how I call a specific sort of self-indulgent scene. Fanfic in general is self-indulgent, but I tend to write plottier, which means there are things I need to write into certain chapters. Candy is what I give myself as a pat in the back for being a good human and picking up my plot threads.