I keep thinking I should do more of these--and then I actually have very little progress to report on, so they sort of get infinitely kicked down the road... Once a week would be a plan, though! Maybe on a day when I regularly have no social events, hahha.
ANYWAY.
Original fiction
I restarted the Eldritch Weather Corpse short story on the advice of my friend, and it's already like a million times better; the protagonist has so much more personality, and I'm so much more sure what I want to say in the story, which is fantastic. It requires more braincells than I've had of late with my somewhat deranged social schedule, but I'm hoping with the bank holiday this weekend I get some dedicated time to work on it.
Twin Faces... basically hasn't moved? According to Word, I last opened it on April 6th... Yeesh.
Fanfic
I finished + posted a short Mass Effect
genfic about Tali and Jack, largely because it's really nice to just get something out of the gate and write something that's beautifully low-pressure. I also haven't written for Mass Effect in
literal years, so it's felt bizarrely refreshing to go back to it.
I also submitted my Albether fic to
wipbigbang, which will be an absolutely required kick up the arse to get it finished. The finish line is definitely in sight; it's currently 30k, and I reckon it'll be like 40k when finished. Fucking love both reading and writing a novella.
Other longfic WIPs that are hanging over my head are Shuake daemons (sent to a friend to beta, which should get me motivated again); Zhongtao Pacific Rim (which I just need the fucking brainpower to write); and Huzhongxiao 2, The Sequel, which I think is gonna be like 12k or something but I just, again, need the time and energy to write. :'D
Random snippet:Admission made, Goro tilts his chin haughtily. “And?” he says, elegant even with the heavy bags under his eyes. “What do you think?”
He doesn’t want platitudes, doesn’t want pity. He wants to be lambasted, but Akira doesn’t want to do that either. He breathes in, tastes the coffee on the air; says, carefully, “I think that must have been very difficult.”
Goro blinks. Then he laughs. “How very sanctimonious of you.”
“Not really,” he says, shoving his hands in his pockets. “You’re resourceful. If there had been any better way, I think you would’ve done that instead.”
“Maybe,” Goro says vaguely. “Maybe not. Maybe I just wanted to hurt him.” His lips are a little pursed. Maybe he regrets his admission now he hasn’t gotten the attack he clearly feels he deserves. If he does: good. Akira refuses to be the rope Goro hangs himself with.
Betaing
I've finally managed to Bother some people into letting me beta!
( Betaing a gorey story (lmao @ the pun) )I am also betaing another friend's HSR Aventurine/Ratio/Sunday fic. His writing is so beautiful and he has this insane talent to be able to nail a character down and summarise them with this real precision in a single sentence, which always leaves me in awe. I
was able to give more structural support on this one, though, which makes me feel way more like I'm improving rather than my friends indulging me by letting me crit their work, hahahah.
Notes
getyourwordsout has been seriously such a lifesaver. I'm not active in the community (even though I definitely should be, because everyone seems super friendly) but external pressure is INSANELY motivating.