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horrid start to this week, and that's, well. it's not something that's going to get better, just something i have to get used to, i guess. in typical fashion i am just simply Not Thinking About It bc when i do i just end up crying and that's not helping anything. :/
things have been fine otherwise. i've been hitting a lot of goals i've set for myself; getting some shit done around the house that i've been putting off, writing more, etc. a little while back i spent an evening clicking thru the Random Community button and checking different dw comms out. found a lot of writing challenges, which were always something i was big into on lj. finished a fic for a flashfic challenge for small fandoms yesterday. got my eyes on that comm specifically for Evil West reasons lmao.
gonna let the fic set for a few days before proofing it one final time and then i'll post it to the comm; can't post it anywhere else until the challenge duration is up but i'll link to it at least. pretty happy with it overall c:
aside from that, posting spirit hat outside of dw again. decided on this despite my wariness of getting hung up on an update schedule bc about a week back i wrote the final lines for 'sunshine,' so i'm feeling very good about finishing it up soon.
not that this means i've finished the last chapter; i only have a detailed outline/rough draft for it, but bc i tend to write out all the dialogue when i do those i ended up just writing the last little bit of the fic. so now i've got that, heck yeah.
my problem ends up being that i always write those bits in present tense (i don't know why i do this???) so then even if there are salvageable lines i still have to go thru and change the tense on everything lol. i delete this stuff as i go so i don't have any of it from earlier fic chapters and just have stuff that'd be spoilers, but like if you want to see what i'm talking about here's a selection for a scene from an outline/draft i wrote for a din/migs canon divergent book of boba fett au that i'll never write:
( i got so obsessed with the brain lizard detail in book of boba u have no idea )
so that's effectively what the last chapter of 'sunshine' looks like right now lol. sometimes i'll also cut out action descriptions entirely and just do only dialogue, but that's uh. that's the writing process for me lmao. not that i do detailed outlines/drafts like this for everything; sometimes i'll start getting claustrophobic about an outline that's too tight so i have to like. fucking freeball it. i prefer to leave enough room that scenes and character interactions can develop organically when i'm writing, and a lot of that happens when i do detailed outlines/drafts like this and then it's just a matter of rewriting/expanding. but other times i'll have to ax huge chunks of things i've written bc feeling too strangled by them.
guess i should clarify that i do have like a barebones overarching outline of where i want things to go, like a 'how to get from point A to B' kind of thing, but i try not to fill that in too much until i'm actually sitting down to write xyz scene. or, you know, if i get an idea in the shower and then need to jot it down quickly before i forget. and then there are times when i'll get an idea for a scene and decide to write a wholeass fic around it. this happened with an ff8 longfic i was writing in high school and is also the reason i decided to keep going with spirit hat after 'blooms.'
anyway man, that's a ramble. but we are here at the personal blog/Yell Void, so it's fine lol.
things have been fine otherwise. i've been hitting a lot of goals i've set for myself; getting some shit done around the house that i've been putting off, writing more, etc. a little while back i spent an evening clicking thru the Random Community button and checking different dw comms out. found a lot of writing challenges, which were always something i was big into on lj. finished a fic for a flashfic challenge for small fandoms yesterday. got my eyes on that comm specifically for Evil West reasons lmao.
gonna let the fic set for a few days before proofing it one final time and then i'll post it to the comm; can't post it anywhere else until the challenge duration is up but i'll link to it at least. pretty happy with it overall c:
aside from that, posting spirit hat outside of dw again. decided on this despite my wariness of getting hung up on an update schedule bc about a week back i wrote the final lines for 'sunshine,' so i'm feeling very good about finishing it up soon.
not that this means i've finished the last chapter; i only have a detailed outline/rough draft for it, but bc i tend to write out all the dialogue when i do those i ended up just writing the last little bit of the fic. so now i've got that, heck yeah.
my problem ends up being that i always write those bits in present tense (i don't know why i do this???) so then even if there are salvageable lines i still have to go thru and change the tense on everything lol. i delete this stuff as i go so i don't have any of it from earlier fic chapters and just have stuff that'd be spoilers, but like if you want to see what i'm talking about here's a selection for a scene from an outline/draft i wrote for a din/migs canon divergent book of boba fett au that i'll never write:
( i got so obsessed with the brain lizard detail in book of boba u have no idea )
so that's effectively what the last chapter of 'sunshine' looks like right now lol. sometimes i'll also cut out action descriptions entirely and just do only dialogue, but that's uh. that's the writing process for me lmao. not that i do detailed outlines/drafts like this for everything; sometimes i'll start getting claustrophobic about an outline that's too tight so i have to like. fucking freeball it. i prefer to leave enough room that scenes and character interactions can develop organically when i'm writing, and a lot of that happens when i do detailed outlines/drafts like this and then it's just a matter of rewriting/expanding. but other times i'll have to ax huge chunks of things i've written bc feeling too strangled by them.
guess i should clarify that i do have like a barebones overarching outline of where i want things to go, like a 'how to get from point A to B' kind of thing, but i try not to fill that in too much until i'm actually sitting down to write xyz scene. or, you know, if i get an idea in the shower and then need to jot it down quickly before i forget. and then there are times when i'll get an idea for a scene and decide to write a wholeass fic around it. this happened with an ff8 longfic i was writing in high school and is also the reason i decided to keep going with spirit hat after 'blooms.'
anyway man, that's a ramble. but we are here at the personal blog/Yell Void, so it's fine lol.
