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1. Do you have a word-count goal for the upcoming year?
I don't have a goal for the year at large, but I'd like to get back into writing a little bit every day. Last year I saw @imekitty posting daily word counts and I think I'd like to try something like that, maybe starting in February. I'd keep a small goal, like 200 words a day minimum, if I did it.
5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?
I have so many wips I want to put out this year; I don't know if I could choose a number one. Buuuuuuut... there's this one fic I started for phic phight 2020 but never finished because I realized it would turn into a big fic. The prompt was Danny becoming the grim reaper, submitted by @browa123 . Here was the opening for that fic:
There are few beings, both living and dead, that are as old as Clockwork. He remembers how empty everything was before the realms started taking proper form. There were only two, in those days, rather than the infinite, ever-growing expanse of realms that exist now or will exist further in time. Two realms on either side of a single door. Both were vast, dark, and empty, remaining that way for millennia. Until, one day, something changed.
In the realm that would one day be known as Universe, that would contain all things truly living, there was a grand cataclysmic birthing of stars and planets of every kind. One moment there was nothing, and then suddenly there was everything, and Clockwork could see it. At that point, "was" did not exist, only "is" and "will be."
On the other side of the door, in the realm that would be Aether, that would be Infinite, that would be the Ghost Zone, there was no bang. Instead, there was a pebble in a pond. A ripple of change pushing outward, growing into cascading waves. A maelstrom of creation tearing down the boundaries of what did not exist. A never-ending tide that would continue to surge outward for all of eternity. From that moment, Clockwork knew everything that would, could, should, and must never be.
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