Horror High COMPLETE (And Other Stuff)
Jul. 19th, 2024 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanimadinSO. Yesterday I actually finished Horror High! It came out to 167 pages, 10 chapters and just under 71,000 words long, and I am BEYOND thrilled with it! To write THAT MUCH in JUST UNDER A MONTH, for ME, is a HUGE deal. I've been struggling for YEARS to write ANYTHING, agonizing over every single word, and then the new ADHD meds and BAM. Suddenly I can write again. It's amazing Vyvanse is a MIRACLE DRUG.
Anyway, so I posted Chapter Two of HH today, here, on AO3 and on my Tumblr, and we'll see how it goes. So far the reception has been lukewarm, but I know I'm a new author to the fandom, I'm writing an AU, and I'm writing top!Dean and bottom!Cas, which is the reverse of how most of the SPN fandom writes them. So it's an uphill battle for me with HH. I don't mind, though, I've got the entire thing written (and edited) and I love it even if no one else does, which I guess is the important thing. I do thrive on feedback and fandom interaction, but in this case I think it'll be okay even if I don't get much of it.
I'm going to be posting a chapter each Friday until I've got the whole thing posted, and I've got eight to go, so it's going to go on for two more months yet. Hopefully people will get on board in the meantime. I want to print a hard copy of HH for myself, just to keep, like I did with Biology, but I currently do not have enough paper to do it, so. Yeah. :|
I started working on Cheap Motel a bit this morning. It takes place roughly seven months after the events of HH and, not gonna lie, I'm basically writing it for the sake of smut. There's some serious stuff and lots of fluff as well, but yeah. Just. Sex. XD;; I'm also going to write Counting Scars, I think, which takes place five years after HH/Cheap Motel (the boys are now 23) and is kind of an intro to Storm Season, but is also mostly just an excuse to write smut. (Sometimes you just gotta write smut!)
But after that I'm going to take a break from fanfiction (mostly) and see if this productivity translates to original works as well, and try to write one or two of my original novels. If I can write original stuff the same way I wrote HH, I can get one written in six weeks to two months. Ish. I'm tentatively planning to work on TKA and/or The Spirit Fighters, but we'll see how it goes. When I'm done that, then I'll go back and write Storm Season.
I've made the executive decision that I'm NOT going to switch to bottom!Dean and top!Cas for Storm Season after all (except possibly for one chapter/scene), I'm going to stick with the dynamic I currently have going. Not because of the jerk-ish review I got about it, but just because that's honestly how I prefer them so that's just how I'm going to continue writing them. (Though I'm not entirely sure about Tying Knots, because it kind of SCREAMS for bottom!Dean. I might deviate when I write that one.)
ANYWAY, yes, so ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE BEING ACCOMPLISHED AND PLANS ARE BEING PLANNED. WISH ME LUCK.
Anyway, so I posted Chapter Two of HH today, here, on AO3 and on my Tumblr, and we'll see how it goes. So far the reception has been lukewarm, but I know I'm a new author to the fandom, I'm writing an AU, and I'm writing top!Dean and bottom!Cas, which is the reverse of how most of the SPN fandom writes them. So it's an uphill battle for me with HH. I don't mind, though, I've got the entire thing written (and edited) and I love it even if no one else does, which I guess is the important thing. I do thrive on feedback and fandom interaction, but in this case I think it'll be okay even if I don't get much of it.
I'm going to be posting a chapter each Friday until I've got the whole thing posted, and I've got eight to go, so it's going to go on for two more months yet. Hopefully people will get on board in the meantime. I want to print a hard copy of HH for myself, just to keep, like I did with Biology, but I currently do not have enough paper to do it, so. Yeah. :|
I started working on Cheap Motel a bit this morning. It takes place roughly seven months after the events of HH and, not gonna lie, I'm basically writing it for the sake of smut. There's some serious stuff and lots of fluff as well, but yeah. Just. Sex. XD;; I'm also going to write Counting Scars, I think, which takes place five years after HH/Cheap Motel (the boys are now 23) and is kind of an intro to Storm Season, but is also mostly just an excuse to write smut. (Sometimes you just gotta write smut!)
But after that I'm going to take a break from fanfiction (mostly) and see if this productivity translates to original works as well, and try to write one or two of my original novels. If I can write original stuff the same way I wrote HH, I can get one written in six weeks to two months. Ish. I'm tentatively planning to work on TKA and/or The Spirit Fighters, but we'll see how it goes. When I'm done that, then I'll go back and write Storm Season.
I've made the executive decision that I'm NOT going to switch to bottom!Dean and top!Cas for Storm Season after all (except possibly for one chapter/scene), I'm going to stick with the dynamic I currently have going. Not because of the jerk-ish review I got about it, but just because that's honestly how I prefer them so that's just how I'm going to continue writing them. (Though I'm not entirely sure about Tying Knots, because it kind of SCREAMS for bottom!Dean. I might deviate when I write that one.)
ANYWAY, yes, so ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE BEING ACCOMPLISHED AND PLANS ARE BEING PLANNED. WISH ME LUCK.
