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

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Is it T.S. Eliot themed? Because the Four Quartets are positively rife with ideas to pilfer.

Amen to that, but I actually got it from Mary Queen of Scots this time. (Not that I think Ed is like Mary Queen of Scots, but that's where I knew the phrase from first. And Eliot's being a little more circular in that 4Q passage than I'm trying to be here. Hmm. 4Q and Hohenheim, now ...)

Good luck!

Thanks -- I'll almost certainly need it. [wry]