Writing Update #3
Sep. 22nd, 2024 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanimadinOkay, so, we'll start off with the obvious. I finished posting Horror High 10 Days ago, and as of today it has 1,704 Hits, 23 Bookmarks, 100 Kudos and 48 Comments, and the numbers are still climbing just a little day by day, mostly because I posted Cheap Motel 3 Days ago and that funnelled more traffic back through to HH. Anyway, so far Cheap Motel has 254 Hits, 1 Bookmark, 26 Kudos and 2 Comments. Which is... fine. Again, not expecting much from this entire AU at this point but I'll take what I can get. :|
Ummm... I'm 84 pages into Storm Season now and it's coming along nicely, but idk if it'll be done in time for the beginning of November. I was hoping to have it finished so I could post chapters during November while I was working on the NaNo, but I might have to postpone it until the beginning of December instead. I have four more HH one-shots leading up to SS to post the next four weeks (Counting Scars, Cerulean Blue, Everything I Do and Falling Stars, each of which is around 30 pages long) but then there might have to be a hiatus before Storm Season. We'll see, though, if I can get SS written and edited by the end of October then we're golden.
(The NaNo is really messing me up this year. The NaNo always messes me up tbh. XD)
Anyway, as for post-Storm Season one-shots, there are SEVEN of the freaking things: When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine, Teeth, Pinfeathers, Temper Tantrums, Halcyon Days and Stalagmites. I've already started all of them except Temper Tantrums, and written varying degrees of them, from like two paragraphs to half the fic. I've especially been working in When Lightning Strikes, Pinfeathers and Stalagmites. But like I SHOULDN'T be working on them AT ALL because I haven't even finished STORM SEASON yet so I'm going to just have to go back and edit them for details later ANYWAY. *facepalm* Just putting the cart before the horse, I guess.
I shut down all my 15+ Word tabs a couple days ago except for my Journal, TKA and Storm Season in an attempt to get myself to FOCUS properly, aaaaaand now I have Pinfeathers, Stalagmites and Carousel Coffee And More open again, idek what happened there. :| I'm just kind of like WELP. OKAY THEN. I've tried closing down most of my tabs before and they all always just seem to pop back up again, I'm not so sure it's a viable option for me, except for a few blessed days before I start opening tabs again.
I'm still tinkering with my ABO Destiel fic, Tying Knots, and I'm thinking about writing a sequel to it, Quick Hitch, where it turns out that Cas's assessment that he couldn't sire pups in his currently body was INCORRECT and Dean finds out the hard way and they're like JFC just. Nephilim baby INCOMING.
Also there's Where Monsters Come From, my SPN/Valdemar crossover, which I keep starting and then scrapping and starting again, and scrapping again... idk I just can't figure out how to get the whole ball of wax rolling for that one. =/
.....
So, Carousel Coffee And More is my next Teen Wolf Sterek fic and it's kind of... bittersweet, because it was going to be dedicated to a friend of mine who is... no longer a friend. But even more than that, they don't like TW anymore anyway, so I guess I wouldn't have been able to dedicate it to them even if we WERE still friends. It's hard because I dedicated What Foxes Like to them back in January and it probably caused them trauma because of certain events a while back. I didn't mean to, obviously, but.... well. There's nothing I can do about it now. Anyway, I'm just writing Carousel Coffee And More and all my other Sterek stuff for myself from now on because I enjoy it and if I enjoy it I'm going to write it. That's the long and short of it.
I've put a hold on Witcher SPN AU for now (until I finish Storm Season et al) but when I get back to it the first two I'm going to write (finish) are Rewarding Heroism and Wayward Sons. I also know how I'm going to eventually FINISH the series, with a fic titled The Road So Far, which basically has the Wolves/etc. packing up and leaving the bunker in Sam and Dean's capable hands, moving on to a new base of operations in the badlands of South Dakota.
I've also got Alien: Kaer Morhen to work on, which might be my next big project once the entire Horror High/Storm Season/etc, series is finished.
And I desperately want to work on something Valdemar related (other than Where Monsters Come From, which is VEXING ME), but I just don't have the time. Just a one-shot would do me. Not Horses, maybe, or Wander,or Knowing, or Senses. I, uh, like one-word titles apparently. :D
Anyway, Not Horses is about Charley, a boy who is Chosen by the stallion Arsalides, and who has a CRIPPLING PHOBIA OF HORSES. Wander is about Bastian, a Companion stallion who's always had wandering hooves, and one day wanders his way right into his Chosen (Aislen.) Knowing is about Jedda, an odd boy with powerful foresight who basically Sees his own Choosing and decides to head it off at the pass, and heads up to Companion's Field asking to speak to the Companion Shaffia. And Senses is about a blind girl (Astrid) being Chosen by a deaf Companion (Volker) and both of them completing each other in more than the usual sense.
And then, of course, there's the entiiiiiiiiire Cole/Hadley series (Inside out, Breaking Point, Against The Grain, Firebug, Burning Bridges, Birds Of A Feather) that I should be working on, but I'm kind of like... I dunno. I wrote Inside Out and it was GOOD and I sent it away to Mercedes Lackey for consideration YEARS ago and never heard back positive OR negative and that whole experience has really... kind of soured me on this series, even though I have it all figured out. Like at least write back and tell me it's not suitable so I can post it somewhere and maybe get some comments and kudos. I dunno.
tldr; I HAVE LOTS OF VALDEMAR IDEAS, I JUST DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO WRITE THEM.
So yeah that's basically it, I think, for now. For fanworks anyway. I have tons of original stuff that I'm working on here-and-there. Sins Of Angels, Threes, Scarlet Letters, etc., but I'm not going to talk about them here. Sorry!
Ummm... I'm 84 pages into Storm Season now and it's coming along nicely, but idk if it'll be done in time for the beginning of November. I was hoping to have it finished so I could post chapters during November while I was working on the NaNo, but I might have to postpone it until the beginning of December instead. I have four more HH one-shots leading up to SS to post the next four weeks (Counting Scars, Cerulean Blue, Everything I Do and Falling Stars, each of which is around 30 pages long) but then there might have to be a hiatus before Storm Season. We'll see, though, if I can get SS written and edited by the end of October then we're golden.
(The NaNo is really messing me up this year. The NaNo always messes me up tbh. XD)
Anyway, as for post-Storm Season one-shots, there are SEVEN of the freaking things: When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine, Teeth, Pinfeathers, Temper Tantrums, Halcyon Days and Stalagmites. I've already started all of them except Temper Tantrums, and written varying degrees of them, from like two paragraphs to half the fic. I've especially been working in When Lightning Strikes, Pinfeathers and Stalagmites. But like I SHOULDN'T be working on them AT ALL because I haven't even finished STORM SEASON yet so I'm going to just have to go back and edit them for details later ANYWAY. *facepalm* Just putting the cart before the horse, I guess.
I shut down all my 15+ Word tabs a couple days ago except for my Journal, TKA and Storm Season in an attempt to get myself to FOCUS properly, aaaaaand now I have Pinfeathers, Stalagmites and Carousel Coffee And More open again, idek what happened there. :| I'm just kind of like WELP. OKAY THEN. I've tried closing down most of my tabs before and they all always just seem to pop back up again, I'm not so sure it's a viable option for me, except for a few blessed days before I start opening tabs again.
I'm still tinkering with my ABO Destiel fic, Tying Knots, and I'm thinking about writing a sequel to it, Quick Hitch, where it turns out that Cas's assessment that he couldn't sire pups in his currently body was INCORRECT and Dean finds out the hard way and they're like JFC just. Nephilim baby INCOMING.
Also there's Where Monsters Come From, my SPN/Valdemar crossover, which I keep starting and then scrapping and starting again, and scrapping again... idk I just can't figure out how to get the whole ball of wax rolling for that one. =/
.....
So, Carousel Coffee And More is my next Teen Wolf Sterek fic and it's kind of... bittersweet, because it was going to be dedicated to a friend of mine who is... no longer a friend. But even more than that, they don't like TW anymore anyway, so I guess I wouldn't have been able to dedicate it to them even if we WERE still friends. It's hard because I dedicated What Foxes Like to them back in January and it probably caused them trauma because of certain events a while back. I didn't mean to, obviously, but.... well. There's nothing I can do about it now. Anyway, I'm just writing Carousel Coffee And More and all my other Sterek stuff for myself from now on because I enjoy it and if I enjoy it I'm going to write it. That's the long and short of it.
I've put a hold on Witcher SPN AU for now (until I finish Storm Season et al) but when I get back to it the first two I'm going to write (finish) are Rewarding Heroism and Wayward Sons. I also know how I'm going to eventually FINISH the series, with a fic titled The Road So Far, which basically has the Wolves/etc. packing up and leaving the bunker in Sam and Dean's capable hands, moving on to a new base of operations in the badlands of South Dakota.
I've also got Alien: Kaer Morhen to work on, which might be my next big project once the entire Horror High/Storm Season/etc, series is finished.
And I desperately want to work on something Valdemar related (other than Where Monsters Come From, which is VEXING ME), but I just don't have the time. Just a one-shot would do me. Not Horses, maybe, or Wander,or Knowing, or Senses. I, uh, like one-word titles apparently. :D
Anyway, Not Horses is about Charley, a boy who is Chosen by the stallion Arsalides, and who has a CRIPPLING PHOBIA OF HORSES. Wander is about Bastian, a Companion stallion who's always had wandering hooves, and one day wanders his way right into his Chosen (Aislen.) Knowing is about Jedda, an odd boy with powerful foresight who basically Sees his own Choosing and decides to head it off at the pass, and heads up to Companion's Field asking to speak to the Companion Shaffia. And Senses is about a blind girl (Astrid) being Chosen by a deaf Companion (Volker) and both of them completing each other in more than the usual sense.
And then, of course, there's the entiiiiiiiiire Cole/Hadley series (Inside out, Breaking Point, Against The Grain, Firebug, Burning Bridges, Birds Of A Feather) that I should be working on, but I'm kind of like... I dunno. I wrote Inside Out and it was GOOD and I sent it away to Mercedes Lackey for consideration YEARS ago and never heard back positive OR negative and that whole experience has really... kind of soured me on this series, even though I have it all figured out. Like at least write back and tell me it's not suitable so I can post it somewhere and maybe get some comments and kudos. I dunno.
tldr; I HAVE LOTS OF VALDEMAR IDEAS, I JUST DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO WRITE THEM.
So yeah that's basically it, I think, for now. For fanworks anyway. I have tons of original stuff that I'm working on here-and-there. Sins Of Angels, Threes, Scarlet Letters, etc., but I'm not going to talk about them here. Sorry!
