threading_in_dreams: Diluc putting his hair up (Default)
2022-07-19 07:17 pm
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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.
threading_in_dreams: Diluc putting his hair up (Default)
2022-07-03 01:47 pm

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Updating wordcounts on Of masks and dances:
  • Chapter 19 is now at over 13k, but I'll be chopping some off as an extra. I think.
  • Chapter 20 is kept at 3.5k because I'm not really working on it right now.

Writing is hard, yes, but mostly because it's like solving a puzzle.

I love puzzles, my second favorite type of game, so it's no wonder I love writing. That feeling when you finally (finally!) get the right shaped words into the right shaped place of the story and suddenly the plot makes sense and you know what you're doing? That is as good as solving levels in The Talos Project, a high as soaring as completing a whole crossword puzzle in a minute and a half.

So, what I mean is, the words started to click together yesterday.
Joy, oh joy!

Now, let's finish this thing.