Friday Update

[clevermanka]

I finished the fic and sent it to my (saintly new) beta yesterday! I think it's likely she'll have suggestions on things to cut, but regardless of how long it winds up being once I upload it to AO3, I wrote twelve thousand words in thirteen days. o_O It was exhausting and I am not doing that again anytime soon. The only reason I pushed myself so hard was to meet the September 2 deadline for teaotter 's challenge and I wanted to be sure to give my new beta plenty of time with this monster (since I'd told her it was probably gonna wind up being in the 6-7k range (ha ha ha ha ha). I also like to send my revisions back to beta for a final once-over and I wanna give her plenty of time for that too (since I don't know if many people do that). But whew.

After I let it go I was completely wiped for the rest of the day. Like, zero executive function.

The next thing I'm going to write is the space poem which has no deadline and will absolutely not be anywhere near in the range of even a thousand words so...ahhhhhhhhhh.

I'm not even opening up a Word document today, though. Today is Art Day since mckitterick (of course!) figured out in about thirty seconds what was wrong with the airbrush. Another misaligned o-ring, but a different one than last time. Pretty soon I'll have all these figured out. Just in time for something mechanical to break down, probably.

Comments

[forestofglory]

Wow that's so many words! I'm impressed. I approve of you no writing day. Yay art!

[clevermanka]

So. Many. Words. Also a rim job, so I can mark those off the Yep I've Written That Now list.

[teaotter]

12,000 words!!! Wow!!!

[clevermanka]

SO THANKS FOR THAT CHALLENGE I GUESS

[teaotter]

Hee! No, THANK YOU for joining in! I'm really looking forward to reading your story!

[clevermanka]

I'm very excited to see what other people put forward for the challenge. Do you think most people are writing fic or will there be meta as well? I'd love to see some meta discussions...

[teaotter]

I don't know what anyone else is doing. It's a crazy free-for-all!

(Did I mention that you could do more than one thing for the challenge? Like, write a story AND post meta? If you're looking for something to do until your beta gets back to you... *nudge nudge*)

[clevermanka]

STOP TEMPTING ME but also seriously I am...not that great at my own analysis and theories? I pick up on little details (like that last lollipop observation I inflicted on everyone in the sid_guardian comm earlier this week) but as far as analysis I am pretty terrible. I tend to like All The Interpretations, all at once, in a sometimes-annoying-to-others multi-headcanon frenzy.

[teaotter]

Meta doesn't have to be AMAZING ANALYSIS. It can be fun shitposting like everything else.

Which is not my trying to tempt you, actually, other than to say that I love Guardian and would be happy to subscribe to your newsletter!

[clevermanka]

[khellekson]

Yesssss! 12K in 13 days is definitely a good run. Do you write for time or words?

[clevermanka]

I was just writing until my brain couldn't produce any more. A couple days I wrote for, like five hours. YAY UNEMPLOYMENT I SUPPOSE. But I don't really have goals except for "do it until you're bored with it" which is pretty much how I approach everything in life, so...

mckitterick told me I (apparently) revise as I write, so I'm sure that slows me down. But I tried to write without pausing to review every paragraph as it left my fingers and I wasn't happy with what I was producing so I went back to what I was doing before.

[khellekson]

I keep hearing that advice: just write Words! Edit them later! But I'm a fucking EDITOR and I just can't do that.

Upside: when I'm done, it's pretty much done.

[clevermanka]

[frith_in_thorns]

Congratulations on all the words! That is what this fandom does to you, I have been informed...

[clevermanka]

Thanks!

I've consumed fan content for a while, now, and produced a few pieces of fan art, but I've never been pulled into writing something like this. Guardian is fucking magical for real.

[write_out]

One more fic! With a shit ton of words too! \o/

[clevermanka]

SO MANY WORDS oh my god.