Measuring the probably depths of the word count mines
Current daily word count streak: 10
My thoughts and feelings as I work on things:
So finally just decided to try one of those daily "writing streak" websites. The kind that remind me of language learning apps where it's really really encouraged to keep it or up else. I remember one from a while ago that never went further than basic development. Also "Typing Shark" with the diver. Went to the depths with that one.
I've heard other people say they don't like how much it gamifies their writing, but it can be helpful if there's literally any external pressure outside myself to keep up some kind of fingers to laptop keys.
I don't think I'll keep this streak up forever. Rewards go up to things like ten years and... geez trying to imagine that makes my head spin.
Mainly it's fanfiction. The fact there's a timer ticking down as the health points of whatever fictional beast they have me typing to "defeat" doesn't leave much for original works at the moment. We'll see if that's forced to change next month when the Fic of the Month challenge swaps back.
Before I get too excited and just talk about that, what I have accomplished isn't bad. I'm working on "Our Flag Means Death" where Stede is a dragon. Even rewatching to try and remember everything. The idea came about sometime... around the end of season 1. Now it's trying to decide what major tension for the oneshot that I want. I have Stede's mother as a dragon! That can lead to a number of things!
Almost done with another fic under a different pen name. It's one where the fandom is actually active in communicating with fic authors... which I've never had before.... kind of terrifies me.
I should use it as practice though to not internalise every bit of negative criticism. Plus it will be another feather in my cap of completing something.
In WHN news, my goal this week is two-fold
1. Read over draft 2 and decide what I'd like to keep (can be cool or meaningful or just gut instinct that I'm supposed to keep it)
2. Decide how I want the Arthurian characters to be used in the story. King Arthur is easy for me, but there's still a few sticking points on if I have the others figured out.
Am still liking the outline development for draft 3 so far which is a positive. My hope is to have the outline done by end of month, maybe into October, then essentially bum rush draft 3 into existence. Then clean up till it's readable to others and find/then pay an editor till it's polished enough/we're sick of it so try and pitch it to publishers.
Now onto my excitement of next months. It's the historical trans romance story I came up with around this time a year ago. It's very simple compared to WHN and I think having something just earnest will be nice
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