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laceblade ([personal profile] laceblade) wrote2012-11-18 04:12 pm

Writing Update

When I have something to say, I'm still commenting weekly at [community profile] inkingitout and in the daily posts at [community profile] writethisfanfic. Both of these communities are very important to me!

I've been trying to write. I've written at least something the last four days. Met/exceeded my daily goal the last two days. I feel like once I get on the other side of 50,000 words, the total goal will seem much easier.

CURRENT STATUS (which is regularly kept on the sidebar of my Tumblr, btw):

44361 / 75000
(59.15%)


I'm currently working on chapter 4.
Chapter 2 is with about 4 people for beta (having been extensively beta'ed by one person thus far).
Chapter 3 just got sent to someone for the first time on Saturday.
I have a collection of "future scenes" that have been around for a while. One of them might be the very end of the fic - I wrote that a while ago, while I was still on chapter 2.
There are also a few intense action-packed scenes and some that are emotional.
Conclusions of the emotional arcs for Santana and for Rachel (these are separate scenes).

My outline doesn't have a lot of detail, so I'm not 100% certain how much I'm going to be writing before I can make it to these scenes. But having them as emotional places I'm reaching toward helps guide the scenes I'm writing now.
Every time I start writing a new chapter, I write a scene or two before realizing, "Yup, no way I'm getting to these this chapter," and I start an n+1 chapter and paste them all into there.

The more that season 4 of the actual show progresses, the more important it is to me to treat characters like Mercedes and Tina and Artie with respect, because the show never will.
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[personal profile] amie 2012-11-18 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
OOh cool! i'm going to check out those comms :) I'm not doing NaNo but I do miss writing, don't really do it at all lately.
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[personal profile] littlebutfierce 2012-11-19 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The more that season 4 of the actual show progresses, the more important it is to me to treat characters like Mercedes and Tina and Artie with respect, because the show never will.

This is one reason I write fic (obvs different fandoms!), totally.

Yay for sending chapter 3 off to beta!!
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2012-11-19 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I am in awe of your ability to focus enough to write on top of all the other shit in your life. Wow!