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I have signed up for Camp NaNo. I haven’t done anything with regard to cabins at this point, and I may not. I don’t know. My goal is 25000 words which will definitely include finishing my current exchange fic. I’m not sure what else I’ll end up working on.
The following are things I could possibly work on for
wipbigbang this year. I’ve sorted them into categories. I thought about doing a poll, but I’m not sure that would focus me at all.
Maybe I should do a shadow WIP Big Bang and just follow the schedule without actually signing up? I don’t know if I’d stick to it, though.
Might be feasible, but also might not be because I don’t know where things are going:
Another Year of Candlelight (Rurouni Kenshin dark AU, Megumi centric) 15087 words. No idea how much longer it needs to be. Small part of yet another epically long story arc.
At the Edge of Centuries (Amber. Part of House of Sulfur and Mercury. Luke/Merlin, Sand) 5817 words. Possibly? It’s growing major plot, so maybe not.
Rooms of Falling Rain (DCU-ish darkfic AU) 12661 words in 3 chapters. No idea how much longer this will be. Maybe?
Things that might work but that are currently stalled:
Gathered from the Gales (Weiss Kreuz, adult Nagi/Crawford/Schuldig, PWPish with character development) 6552 words
Shatter Like a Cry (Weiss Kreuz, Weiss/Schuldig, intended as PWP but looks more like character development) 3939 words
Untitled House of Sulfur and Mercury offshoot (Merlin/OFC) 4192 words. I don’t like Merlin in this one, and I think it’s not going anywhere.
Probably workable but not grabbing me:
Garden Our Shadows (Amber, Martin/Merlin, Luke/Merlin) 1580 words. Sequel to The Fruit of Our Intents. May get too big to finish because I expect it to open out into epic plot. Maybe I can/should subdivide that? Expect to include Dalt, Benedict, Despil, and OCs. Possibly also Gilva, Coral, and the Ty’iga.
Nothing False and Possible 2 (Amber, Luke/Merlin) 1124 words. Eventually including Jasra. Possibly also Flora.
We Are Where We Began (Amber, Luke/Merlin) 28387 words in eight chapters. Possibly near done, possibly not.
Things that would be cheating because I haven’t actually started yet:
Dara fic (Amber)
Dark and Deep sequel (Narnia, Jadis and the Pevensies)
Luke and Merlin in college with Luke telling Merlin who he is (Amber)
Martin and Random meeting for the first time (Amber)
Queen and the Soldier fic (NYR - ghosts???)
The Very Self of the Storm sequel (Smallville/general DCU, Clark/Lex)
With Bitter Herbs and Rue sequel (Sky High, Layla centric, post canon)
Probably not going to be long enough:
One More Folded Sunset (Weiss Kreuz, Crawford/Schuldig, implied Crawford/Manx, dark AU) 2458 words. Maybe half done, maybe two thirds done. Intended as a giftfic.
Untitled (Weiss Kreuz, PWP, Crawford/Schuldig/Yohji) 2517 words
The Wisdom that You Brought sequel (Amber, Vialle, Brand, Luke, Random?) 3979 words. Probably two thirds done.
Things that are going to be too long to finish but that I’d really like to make progress on:
Auguries of Innocence (Harry Potter darkfic AU) 33217 words in 6.5 chapters. Maybe 25% done? Possibly less.
Rheotaxis (Weiss Kreuz) 190355 words in 23 chapters. Between half and two thirds done. Probably not feasible. Especially since I’ve been stuck for years now.
I’m also considering Night on Fic Mountain which is a small fandom fic exchange. My main hesitation is that I’m not particularly enthusiastic about writing anything in the current tag set except the things I nominated.
The following are things I could possibly work on for
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Maybe I should do a shadow WIP Big Bang and just follow the schedule without actually signing up? I don’t know if I’d stick to it, though.
Might be feasible, but also might not be because I don’t know where things are going:
Another Year of Candlelight (Rurouni Kenshin dark AU, Megumi centric) 15087 words. No idea how much longer it needs to be. Small part of yet another epically long story arc.
At the Edge of Centuries (Amber. Part of House of Sulfur and Mercury. Luke/Merlin, Sand) 5817 words. Possibly? It’s growing major plot, so maybe not.
Rooms of Falling Rain (DCU-ish darkfic AU) 12661 words in 3 chapters. No idea how much longer this will be. Maybe?
Things that might work but that are currently stalled:
Gathered from the Gales (Weiss Kreuz, adult Nagi/Crawford/Schuldig, PWPish with character development) 6552 words
Shatter Like a Cry (Weiss Kreuz, Weiss/Schuldig, intended as PWP but looks more like character development) 3939 words
Untitled House of Sulfur and Mercury offshoot (Merlin/OFC) 4192 words. I don’t like Merlin in this one, and I think it’s not going anywhere.
Probably workable but not grabbing me:
Garden Our Shadows (Amber, Martin/Merlin, Luke/Merlin) 1580 words. Sequel to The Fruit of Our Intents. May get too big to finish because I expect it to open out into epic plot. Maybe I can/should subdivide that? Expect to include Dalt, Benedict, Despil, and OCs. Possibly also Gilva, Coral, and the Ty’iga.
Nothing False and Possible 2 (Amber, Luke/Merlin) 1124 words. Eventually including Jasra. Possibly also Flora.
We Are Where We Began (Amber, Luke/Merlin) 28387 words in eight chapters. Possibly near done, possibly not.
Things that would be cheating because I haven’t actually started yet:
Dara fic (Amber)
Dark and Deep sequel (Narnia, Jadis and the Pevensies)
Luke and Merlin in college with Luke telling Merlin who he is (Amber)
Martin and Random meeting for the first time (Amber)
Queen and the Soldier fic (NYR - ghosts???)
The Very Self of the Storm sequel (Smallville/general DCU, Clark/Lex)
With Bitter Herbs and Rue sequel (Sky High, Layla centric, post canon)
Probably not going to be long enough:
One More Folded Sunset (Weiss Kreuz, Crawford/Schuldig, implied Crawford/Manx, dark AU) 2458 words. Maybe half done, maybe two thirds done. Intended as a giftfic.
Untitled (Weiss Kreuz, PWP, Crawford/Schuldig/Yohji) 2517 words
The Wisdom that You Brought sequel (Amber, Vialle, Brand, Luke, Random?) 3979 words. Probably two thirds done.
Things that are going to be too long to finish but that I’d really like to make progress on:
Auguries of Innocence (Harry Potter darkfic AU) 33217 words in 6.5 chapters. Maybe 25% done? Possibly less.
Rheotaxis (Weiss Kreuz) 190355 words in 23 chapters. Between half and two thirds done. Probably not feasible. Especially since I’ve been stuck for years now.
I’m also considering Night on Fic Mountain which is a small fandom fic exchange. My main hesitation is that I’m not particularly enthusiastic about writing anything in the current tag set except the things I nominated.
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Date: 2017-03-27 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-27 03:25 am (UTC)The fork in the road event is Draco succeeding in killing Dumbledore midway through sixth year, but the real fork is that Draco's father has different priorities than in canon, to the point of being willing to sacrifice his son for power.
The fic picks up about seven years after Dumbledore's death. The war has only just ended, and pretty much everyone on Harry's side is hard and ruthless because they had to be. They're better than Voldemort, but their new world is pretty terrible for the unlucky. The Wizarding population of Britain is only 40% what it was, and the Muggle population is about 75% of what it was.
Draco got turned into a seer by Voldemort, but he and Snape managed to mislead Voldemort enough that he eventually lost. Unfortunately for Draco, Harry still hates him and has a nasty need for violence. Nobody who could protect him cares enough about Draco to make the effort.
But Draco's useful, very much so, when someone puts in the effort to anchor him and to coax information out of him. What he sees is fragmented because he's simultaneously in all possible versions of the present and can't tell which is real.
Luna is the other POV character. She was Voldemort's prisoner for years. Harry considers her a friend, so she's not in a terrible place. She wants to help Draco but hasn't found a path toward that yet. She's no longer exactly human, but she hasn't figured out how that works yet and really doesn't want anyone to know.
It is, of course, more complicated than that. A lot more.
The pairings so far are Harry/Hermione/Ron (Ginny is dead), Harry/Draco, Ron/Draco, Luna/Fred, Luna/George. I expect Hermione/Draco eventually, but who knows?
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Date: 2017-03-27 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-28 05:23 pm (UTC)There's a lot of terrible and/or abandoned stuff in that journal, so I keep almost everything access locked. Some of what's there goes back to the early 90s. I realized a while ago that I wanted those things somewhere in addition to on my hard drive and that this might keep me from suddenly discovering that I no longer have any way to open some ancient file because I missed my opportunity to convert it. (I think I have hard copy of most of those. Somewhere. Maybe.)
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Date: 2017-03-27 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-27 08:29 pm (UTC)