This week in Phoenix’s NaNo
55,708 words, baby. Most of it was even actually for the thing I said I was supposed to be working on, although I’m not going to pretend the usual “sudden urge to work on something completely friggin’ unrelated” didn’t happen a few times. Did at least get some nice ideas for Arilterra and Mnemosyne out of that, though.
Still not actually done going through my old drafts and outlines, so I’m gonna do my best to keep moving forward with that. Even then a lot of this is barely-qualifies-as-prose telly summation, so it’ll still need a steady stream of picking at before it looks like a readable fic. But it’s more like prose than just the mostly-complete outline it was at the start of the month, and the desire to keep working on it is still pretty strong—I really don’t wanna lose that momentum!
Most of all, though, I’m just glad I don’t feel disappointed with myself after all this is done. I’m glad I’m coming away from this with not only a draft I can continue to work on but the desire to do so, when literally every single NaNo prior to this year’s was one or the other. Like I said last week, it just feels nice.
So yeah! Whew. NaNo’s done, then. But even though the story’s not, I do need to take a bit of a break. I have another deadline coming up real soon and need to get anything at all done for that, although hopefully the minimum requirements I gave myself should be reasonably achievable in three days. I’m still not done with Husbando Hell and consequences are probably gonna have to start happening if I can’t finish it tonight. And I’d really like to take some time to work up the courage to actually join a D&D game on Roll20 or something because gah I want to play and I still can’t even DM the home game for another few weeks because one of the players is still overseas, but even if he were home I want to play, not DM, and watching my brother and other people have fun with it while I’m stuck wanting to throw Fire Emblem at the wall is killing me, haha.
Anyway, we’ll see what happens with Holding Out in the future, eh? Here’s to keeping the train rolling, or at least starting it rolling again after the 3rd, whoops.
