Community Thursday

Sep. 25th, 2025 05:33 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Posted & commented on [community profile] getyourwordsout.

50k words!

Sep. 22nd, 2025 07:15 am
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I did finish revising Chapter 2 over the weekend, as I hoped! The story now stands at 50.7k words. Is it okay if I think of it as a novel rather than a novella now? XD In my heart I will, but because it's fantasy and fantasy books usually land closer to 150k words, I suppose it still counts as novella-sized for the genre. Ah well!!

The next couple of chapters will have quite a few changes too, but even with that it should be easier going from now on. It should be. It will be. Yes. Totally!!

Edits, edits, always pondering edits

Sep. 20th, 2025 11:39 am
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The Cursed Witch post-beta editing is going slowly. Soooooooooooooooooooo slowly. Not because I'm not putting in the time! I've put in *checks* 18h31. Just for Chapter 2. Out of ten chapters. I've spent 43h51 on this round of editing so far, and I'm not even a quarter of the way through.

I can never write a story in this way again.

It doesn't matter that the changes do seem to be making the story better and more interesting (although I'm still concerned about pace). It's just hard to work on ideas I had 2 years ago when I have more ideas, concepts, life questions I want to dive into now. But mainly, if I'm aware of how much work is ahead of me, and that I won't be able to take on much of anything else during that period, I suspect I just won't start. I don't have any genius ideas that feel worth that much effort. Just a lot of concepts I think are pretty cool.

The main thing is that doing structural edits at this very late stage of the story is likely too much, too late. I suspected it would be, but now I sure as hell feel it! I guess if I had the kind of brain that can work on this for several hours in a day, it would matter less, because I'd still have time to explore all of the fun things, but I can't right now.

I've been trying to teach myself to be a bit more chill about how I edit during the *checks* 191h57 (sob) and 50 millions (actually 4 or 5) rounds of editing, but clearly I don't know how to be chill about editing. Did I mention it took me 30 hours to write the first draft, and that I always say I prefer writing to editing? Something is skewed here.

I don't think a "better editing process" is what I need right now. I think more work in the early phases is where I should look next. Read more... )

I started alternating these edits with more lighthearted activities, like a fic I'm writing for a new fandom :) Obviously, that means editing will take even longer but it's keeping the insanity at bay, which is great! I recommend that! XD Unfortunately, I also feel like my writing is flat and lifeless at the moment. I know this kind of feelings ebb and flow over the seasons, and I just have to (gently) push through.

Progress is being made!! :) It's just a little bit harder to feel good about it at times. Step by step.

Community Thursday

Sep. 18th, 2025 07:16 am
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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Commented on [community profile] booknook.

Signal boosts:

  • [community profile] fan_writers continues to see a lot of active discussions around meta about writing, if that is of interest to you! :)

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Sep. 16th, 2025 11:44 pm
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[community profile] 1character is a challenge where writers chose a character to write 50 sentences of fanfiction about based on different themes in a set

[community profile] trickortreatex, a multifandom exchanged inspired by Halloween (though works don't need to contain Halloween themes/you don't have to celebrate), is still open for sign-ups until September 18th, 11:59PM UTC.

[community profile] aspecex, an Asexuality and Aromanticism themed multifandom exchange, is open for sign-ups until September 20th, 10PM PST. Nominations are also still open until September 17th, 10PM PST.

[community profile] 10itemsorless, a fic/art exchange for for any ship with 10 works or less on ao3, is open for sign-ups until September 21st, 9AM Eastern. More info, including a link to the collection, can be found HERE.

[community profile] swrarepairs, a Star Wars rare ship (less than 250 works that complete, in English, and over 1000 words) exchange, is accepting nominations until September 21st, 11:59PM Eastern.

[community profile] fandommixtapeex, an 18+ multi-fandom exchange using songs as work prompts, is open for sign-ups until September 21st, 11:59PM Eastern. Rules/links/schedule is HERE.

[community profile] eatdrinkmakemerry, a multifandom exchange celebrating food and drink, is accepting nominations until September 23rd.

[community profile] yuletide_admin, an exchange for rare and obscure fandoms, has opened Yuletide nominations until September 26th, 9AM UTC.

[community profile] ladiesbingo, a challenge for fanworks about relationships between women, is open for Round 13 sign-ups.

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