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I have spat out 5k words for my novel (and possibly more before going to bed) and almost 1k for fanfiction today
Writing Report April 26, 2024
Wrapped up the first draft on my latest novel on April 7, clocking in at a whopping 124,160 words.
W-a-a-a-y too much for this wort of story. An acceptable length for a historical epic or a sci-fi / fantasy tale but much too long for what used to be called mainstream but is now referred to as literary fiction.
Part of the problem is that I tend to overexplain and repeat myself then I repeat my overexplanations so I need to explain yet again my overexplanations and…
See the problem?
Story takes place from 1950-1972, mostly around a local TV station. I spent an enormous amount of time researching obscure little details that really don’t contribute to the narrative.
Case in point:
“We’ve got two big maps,” [the technical director] said [to the weather girl]. “Both are painted on a thin sheet of steel. We use magnetized symbols to show where the weather is coming from. [We] set up the maps with pressure fronts and storm warnings and whatnot before you go on the air. You just point to them as you read your cue card and leave the rest to us.”
“Tell her about the Technamation,” [the art director] said.
“It’s a filter system we put on the studio lights. The magnetized symbols use polarized designs. When we turn the filters on the lights, it makes them pulsate or look like rain is falling and stuff like that.”
I saw this stuff on TV all the time when I was a kid, but it only worked in black and white broadcasting, not color, so once local stations switched over to color the Technamation system was abandoned.
That’s the kind of detail that adds veracity to a story.
It’s also utterly unimportant to the story itself, so it’s probably going to go.
But I’ll be damned if I’m not going to share all that research here and now.
© Buzz Dixon
status report
second status report ayo i cant tell if it’s been a month since the last one or not, time isn’t real anyway
PUBLISHED
free dinner ch. 16 - 1657k words and very wip, but the opening section was written by my friendo shio! she was the one who made aera and also spared me from writing a big fight involving a meteor hammer because hoo boy what is choreography. stay tuned for when that comes up
plot armour ch. 7 - 3340k words and holy shit i forgot i called the document its on “testes” im so sorry shio that you have to look for that name just to proofread my bullshit. but we see more siobhan, also lovingly made by friendo, ayyy
PLANNING
“born in a mountain raised in a cave dying and crying is all i crave”
WE GOT SOME PAGES DONE FOR IT YEET i found the direction i wanna go and i can finally go full unhinged lets gooooooo
INSIGHTS
i regret staying in my field of work and lament my inability to do anything productive to earn money from home so get ready for overworked and depressed ren folks
Just West of Autumn Boulevard
Hi, every one! I‘m finally putting out my first choice script project (and first writing project in a few years) and I‘m super excited to share it with you guys.
Just West of Autumn Boulevard is a horror/mystery interactive fiction WIP that explores not ancient horrors, waiting in recently unearthed and long-forgotten tombs, but modern ones. The kind that hides in an empty alley on your way home, stares at you through a dark subway window at night or makes you feel alone and forgotten as thousands of people walk mere feet away from you.
I want to take a look at just why you can‘t avoid your reflection‘s eyes while riding the elevator alone. The reason you find yourself sprinting up empty stairwells at night. And, of course, at how well you can know the people sharing your roof once there‘s a hundred of them.
Plot Summary:
Just west of Autumn Boulevard stands an ordinary high rise block.
It's stood there for 30 years, doing nothing of any particular interest. Most people wouldn‘t be able to pick it out of a lineup, no matter how often they‘ve passed it by.
You‘re no different from them. When you move in, however, your opinion changes quickly once your new neighbours approach you with a list of rules. Rules to stay safe.
Find out why riding the elevator after sundown is forbidden, flee down stairwells whose length doesn‘t match any floor‘s height and get to know the people living on the 50th floor of your new 45 story home.
Maybe you can uncover the mysteries surrounding the building just west of Autumn Boulevard. And its residents.
Demo
You can play the current demo here.
It clocks in at about 23k words (excluding code) right now, with an average playthrough length of probably less than that.
Characters
Read a bit about the characters introduced so far here.
This Blog
I will be using this blog to answer any questions you have and, more importantly for now, report about my writing as often as I can.
State of the Fic, Week 20
Projects I worked on this week
Enhancile War, Vol 3 - 11,105 I think we have about four chapters left in this, and then a vague idea of what we want to do for the next novel
Physical Therapist! Bucky fic for Fandom Trumps Hate 2,154
In Search of Something - Steampunk piece 2,773 and ready to post on Monday as expected, so that’s good.
Choose Your Own Adventure: Bucky Barnes goes to Prom: this is an experiment in style... I’ve written out the entire outline, so mostly I just need to fill it in. The idea is that the reader gets to pick what Bucky will do in this little high school AU... who does he ask to prom, does he get the help he needs for physics class, who’s going to be Prom Sovereigns, and what, exactly, happened during lunch? At the end of each chapter, the reader selects an option, and moves on to the next chapter (rather than using the “next” navigation buttons) with Bucky doing what they decide for him. Possible pairing options: WinterIron, Stucky, WinterHawk, and Winterbones. Each “story” should end up being about 10k (or more, if the reader is really indecisive) 4,240 so far, got to the end of the second decision, out of 8 different decision branches. I’m really excited about this project, and based on the nature of the beast, it’s going to have to wait until I’m finished before I can post it.
@27dragons and I also did all the rest of the proofing for Nights in Sandbridge. That’s being published on June 2 and will be available as an ebook and paperback copy. If you’re interested in a paperback copy that’s signed by the authors, I’ll be posting information about that soon.
Total words: 20,272 words.
On the @tonystarkbingo front, I’ve done up 14 cards (of 69, wow, that’s a LOT for a new event, and I’m very excited... Cards will go out May 29th. If you missed signing up and still want to participate, send an Ask or the bingo, and exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis, if the mods have time.
Sandbridge / Communal Kitchen Prompts
Communal Kitchen has been mostly “done” for a while now, and after My Three Dads, dragons and I don’t have any other stories for Sandbridge ready. We have the ideas for a Sam/Wanda, but we haven’t started it yet.
So! If there’s a story you want to see, something we might have overlooked or skipped past, or just something you want more information about, we are opening prompts to those AUs. As usual, we don’t promise anything; sometimes ideas just don’t click for us.
NOTE: I will not discuss Infinity Wars on tumblr or in A03 until at LEAST the end of the month. If you want to talk movies with me, DM or Ask (off anon). I have lots of feels, but I want people to have a chance to see it. I’m asking other people who have seen the movie to refrain from spoilers in my A03 comments. My Blog is also a safe, spoiler free space. I’m not posting anything (except gifsets from the trailer, sometimes) tagged or otherwise!
Projects in the works that I did NOT work on this week but are still active and on my to-do list
CapRBB -- didn’t work on it this week, but I’m almost done, 1 - 2 more chapters and then... I might have signed up to pitch hit for a piece... as soon as I hear back from the artist...
I’ve got some plotty bits that I’m working on for the Eight Arms to Hold You octoBucky/seahorse Tony fic
I also have some more plot for lionfishTony/octobucky
One-armed Violinist and Music Teacher!Bucky and Tony, the parent who can’t stop staring at his son’s teacher’s butt -- it’s not like he can help it, the orchestra conductor has his back to the audience the Whole Time.
I Know Your Face - Angsty Vampire!Bucky prompt for IT&B
Wonders Within Us - collab project/Blade Runner 2049 AU with @cryo-bucky (this is on planning hiatus until cryo gets done with Uni for the summer.)
To Victor Goes the Spoils – IronDoom
Sea Flowers – New Sandbridge novella (haha) for the Sam and Wanda story
https://tisfan.tumblr.com/post/172658550289/how-to-bribe-your-author - and here’s some interesting information for you, about how to get me to write the fic YOU want to read :D
18.10.17 | Today was really productive. The sun was out, and i could enjoy the warmth of this October onmy balcony, yay! I read a chapter about cultural communication/relationships between Germany and China, and also got another one done about intercultural communication, something, that i finde really interesting at the moment. I am using this interest and getting that chapter done in my internship report. I finished cleaning my desk space as well and got my flat cleaned, so it was a really good day!
status report
sorry for the lack of updates lads, consider this the first of maybe a start of the month report i’ll be doing for chapters. work kicks my ass but not to the point of deciding to sell feet pics online yet so here we go
PUBLISHED
free dinner ch. 15 - 6651 words, wip. one section left to write but my god am i reminded of how awkward it is to write action scenes when i make these idiots fight things. it’s cinema dungeon time.
plot armour ch. 4 - 4057 words, wip. not sure how many sections left but suffice to say our protagnist’s plan to avoid a major character failed spectacularly and now she’s stranded in vegas.
PLANNING
“born in a mountain raised in a cave, crying and dying is all i crave”
it’s gonna be a self-indulgent vent fic that ticks my boxes more than anything. crossdressing pretty boy mc i wish were me? check. soft joonghyuk? check. unhinged dokja? y’all gonna wish he wasn’t there. i like to vent through ocs and sadly my already established messes above don’t come close to what the new challenger can fulfil. coming when i figure out where the hell i’m going with it outside of the words “protagonist sandwich with extra sauce”
INSIGHTS
miiiiiiiight port over some stuff from ffn to ao3? still wondering about that. the formatting for ao3 works better for my stuff but at the same time i’m an old fart who wants to see how long that mess of code great enough to rival tumblr will last.
i also have a surprise that’ll come with the next chapter of free dinner! and i hope you guys support the person who made it because aaaaaa he really spoiled me with making this QwQ
A Lazy Bee’s Writing Report
I’m taking a page out of mama @muffinlance ‘s book and will do my best to attempt to give real time updates on my fics? For the maybe two people out there who care.
The Threads of Fate : Outlined until the end of Book 1, the spirit koiju has taken books 2 and 3 and drowned them. Canon? Don’t know her.
a summer ocean; lit aflame : 15 pages/7k words into Chapter 2 and no end in sight, this was not supposed to be this long but I’m only on day two of... three years? FML. Also so far surprisingly light on brainwashing/gaslighting/propaganda/racist imperialist bullshit. Lucky Sokka.
You wanted a nail? You get a whole fucking hardware store! : Ok, guys, listen, this is completely planned out and everything and I have a good chunk of Chapter 2 written, but right now BNHA is just... not my focus. I kinda need a break. I am sorry!
Dark Nebula : This is one of my dear babies and will be updated again, promise. I actually have a good portion of it outlined until USJ, but I need to decide how far this will go, also general PSA about my BNHA break applies.
the blood of the covenant : This is the BNHA/HP DFO crossover brainrot no one asked for but I gave you anyways. Outlined until year 5, but so far not entirely sure where to take the DFO yet.
when life gives you lemons (you overachieve like the chaos god you are) : This was quite literally a joke fic I wrote when I had a migraine and never expected to explode the way it did, so now I’m struggling with a plot. So... yeah.
The Other Side of Things : Outlined entirely, sequel in the works, next chapter about a fourth done and just... I hate the summer camp, alright? I hate writing it. It’s my least favorite part in fics after the Sports Festival because it just feels so overdone but is so necessary and blergh. I just want to get to Kamino because that’s pretty much what the entire fic is gearing towards, but the summer camp... urgh.
So, there. Nice overview of my current, ongoing fics. There’s also a long oneshot in the works that... has been in the works since like December and is some more TodoDeku brainrot, so look forward to that, if you want.
