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]

Ouch. Or, no, wait -- it would be more interesting if you were the victim of some nefarious plot here, like your keys being abstracted by that passing stranger you bumped into on the way to work ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i told them my ghost stole them

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Does s/he look anything like Edward Mulhare? [remembers fondly]

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha, no