Fanwriting: Making haste slowly

[nebroadwe]

My quondam Fire and Ice Challenge 'fic, now just my latest project, is still not finished, though I've worked on it off and on all week. It's developed a title -- In My End Is My Beginning -- which I don't really like but am going to live with (at least it gives me a way to label the file). I've got enough of a handwritten draft to guess that I'm looking at about 8400 words of typescript and probably 8000 words of finished 'fic. I usually overwrite my drafts and have to delete the tl;dr in revision, and this piece is just chock-full of opportunities for tl;dr, being set some seven years after the end of the manga. (My entire unwritten Al-in-Xing novel is backstory for this piece. [headdesk]) On the other hand, it's nice to be able to estimate how far I have left to go, so that I can make one of these:

4,563 / 8,400 (54.3%)

Further bulletins as events warrant. Must take some time this weekend to read all the Fire and Ice entries properly ...

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

though I wish (given how many challenges went out) i knew how many didn't get turned in thanks to all the horrible storms

I'm sure I'll hear about it eventually.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes I'm sure too

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

"The Second -second Annual...."

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Or maybe "The 2008 Wind and Rain Challenge"?

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA. That might be it, indeed.