New month, new year, new decade!
I thought I’d put down in writing what I want from my fanfic this year.
But first a couple of stats from last year. All are rounded down to hundreds.
I wrote for 19 different stories, not all published and one is currently ‘anonymous’ on A03 as part of a secret santa.
The work I wrote the most for, amazingly enough was In Memoriam, which clocks in at roughly 115,300 words. That, at least, is a complete story.
The second thing I wrote the most for, no surprise, is Consequences of Sound, which came to 105,700.
The work I wrote the most words but haven’t put the story out for people to read was my Gotham AU.
The work I wrote the least words for but haven’t put the story out for people to read was a Kid Patton idea.
So broadly speaking, my goals are;
Finish the majority of my wips. Or at least - finish two stories before I start a new one. Most of them, I have a rough idea of how many chapters they will have and none of them are nearly as long as the three ‘main’ stories. Sound, Redemption and Wolfbane.
Reach the start of the end of Act 3 of Sound. I mean, I’d love to finish it, but we still have a way to go. This may surprise people but I do have an outline for the story which has never changed its overall shape. It’s just grown in different directions but it always had a prologue, three acts and an epilogue.
Write the sequel to A Dragon’s Tail? It’s been a while, are people still interested in that?
Don’t hold myself rigid to these ‘goals’. I want to write. I want to have fun and I want to share the stories inside my head.
But I don’t want to feel guilty or a failure. I originally felt so bad at the end of last year because I hadn’t gotten as far as I wanted in various things. Even though I had achieved so much.
And it won’t be the end of the world if I end up going completely off book.
Back to Absent Gods and Silent Tyranny, which is my focus this week. I have so many thoughts for this story.