vanimadin: (Make The NaNo Your B*tch)
Hoooooooly SHIT I just finished Storm Season! 8D And while the word count in Storm Season is higher than that of Horror High (76,416 vs 70,659) they actually both ended up being the EXACT SAME PAGE LENGTH, coming in at 167 each. XD But that's how much denser the text was in SS, I guess, so whatever! I'm still super hyped! <33

Now I just need to EDIT the entire freaking thing, which I'm hoping to get done before the end of the month so I don't have it hanging over my head while I'm trying to work on the NaNo. But it's only the 16th today, so I should be good.

It occurred to me yesterday that in the last sliiiightly less than three months, I have written almost 500 pages (about 484-ish) in this series, not to mention all the other bits-and-bobs of other stuff I've written as well; Snowflakes And Dragons, Coffee Break, etc., and like... 500 pages is TWO novels. I have written AT LEAST two novels worth of content in the last three months, since I went on the ADHD meds, and is this what it's actually like?? To have a FUNCTIONAL BRAIN?? Because WOW. .__.

So maybe, MAYBE I actually have it in me to just... WRITE BOOKS. BE AN ACTUAL AUTHOR. Because I know that my ideas are good, so if I can get them written out like I have with the Horror High (et al) series, I'm pretty much GOLDEN. It's a surreal thought. Something I've strived for and struggled with my entire life. Literally my dream, to share my stories with the world. It's why I got into fanfiction, too.

So I'm going to do TKA for the NaNo this year and attempt 50,000 words in a month, and though I'm sure I can manage THAT, TKA is going to be longer than 50,000 words so I'll have to keep working on it after the NaNo is over to complete it. Or just write 80,000 words in a month. I could just do that. :|

And once I have TKA WRITTEN, then I can edit the shit out of it half a dozen times before finally trying to find an agent that will take me on and hock my wares for me, you know? I'm not 100% sure where to start with that but... I'll muddle through somehow. Because I definitely want an agent if I can possibly get one, rather than trying to sell my book around to publishing companies myself. I'll get way better contracts if I have an agent.

Anyway. Just. I shouldn't put the cart before the horse. Finish TKA first, that's the big one.

BUT ALSO YAY STORM SEASON!!!
vanimadin: (Cas Looking Up)
I have seven post-Storm Season one-shots planned out, but one of them I'm considering just writing as it's own separate fic so that one might not count. :|

Basically, in order: When Lightning Strikes, By Any Other Name, Pinfeathers, Teeth, Hair Trigger, Hunting Souls and Halcyon. Except Hunting Souls has literally nothing to do with the Horror High AU or story arc, it just struck me as a good concept and I wanted to write it and at the time I was working on Storm Season one-shots so it kind of got lumped in with them. I think I'm going to pull it from the lineup and just write it as it's own little standalone fic instead, after I'm done with the entire HH arc.

When Lightning Strikes (formerly Like Feathers, Softly) is about Cas returning to Earth after the ending of Storm Season; By Any Other Name is a Cas/Charlie reunion fic and I don't really have the actual PLOT figured out yet; Pinfeathers is new and very Under Construction stuff; Teeth is a Cas/Garth reunion fic where the boys are up against a tooth fairy and need Garth's expertise; Hair Trigger is a Cas/Jody reunion fic and, like the one with Charlie, I don't really have the actual PLOT figured out yet, and Halcyon is literally just being written for Destiel fluff and smut and not much else. :D;

And I mean, I should NOT be working on the post-Storm Season one-shots BEFORE I've even finished Storm Season itself, but... here we are! So I'm kind of jumping around between all of those (except Hunting Souls, I haven't started that one yet), writing snippets as they come to me.

I'm still very much stuck in the fanfiction setting right now, which is unfortunate because there are so many original projects I could/should be working on, but I plan to set all the fandom stuff aside in November, no matter what, to hopefully get TKA finished for the NaNo this year.

I don't really have a good... track record. With the NaNo. Basically most years I sign up for it and have a really great idea for it and then as soon as November 1st hits? All my muses ABANDON SHIP. I'm not good with deadlines and stuff, which doesn't bode well for my goal of being a published author. I don't write well under pressure, I guess.

But I'm going to try my best this year, and maybe the ADHD meds will help me overcome my previous... difficulties. Here's hoping, anyway! :D;;
vanimadin: (Tomoko)
So the NaNo this year got kyboshed. I had intended to get writing on Garden of Shadows, but unfortunately... it turns out I'm moving at the end of the month, so rather than working on the NaNo, I get to pack frantically. Ah well. That's life, I guess. :P

The good news is that I have still been working on a bunch of fanfiction stuff, which I will totally be posting here. Tons of Valdemar fics and a few bits of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as well as (I hope) the beginning of my Supernatural fic and one of my Kingdom Hearts projects.

I really am going crazy with Valdemar lately, though. SO MUCH WRITING. \o/

Now, the other thing is that in about five days my Internet will be shut off, since I'm behind on my bill with Rogers. This means that I won't be able to really post much of anything anywhere until I can get caught up with payments. There are cafés around with free wifi, tough, so I might just pop into one of them every day or two to check my email and post to FB/here/FF.Net/etc. We'll see. ^^;

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vanimadin: (Sterling)
Well, the NaNo is coming up fast, isn't I?

The last few years I haven't even bothered to try it, but I think this year I'm going to give it a shot. That said, I've got to do all the planning over the next couple of weeks. I do have the basics figured out, though, and a title, so I'm already heading in the right direction, right? Haha.

So, I'll be posting some info on Garden Of Shadows in the next couple of days, once I have a bit more decided on it. ♥

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