let's just stop and think / before i lose faith
I have whittled down my fic writing deadlines to three big bangs, so yay for that. Finally, less deadlines to have headaches over. Here's the lowdown on where I stand with them:
The scifibigbang story is almost finished, surprisingly, considering I only started writing it a week ago (I'll finish it tonight, probably). See, in War someone brought up a really good plot idea of "Hey, everyone affected gets split into two people with polar opposite personalities!" So we haven't done it, but I've been plotting with Viki and if it happens we're having Molly and Khan hook up (possibly repeatedly), which amused me to no end (because seriously, he's anti-social and she's still got a hang-up on Sherlock so of course we're going to have fun with them). Then I got challenged (by Viki, I might add) to fic it. So, of course, I did. This story (the first in a series because I love me my series) is nearly 25K long already and all I need to do is finish chapters 6 and 9. And this was the only fic that the mods of the challenge are actively encouraging to be written. Also? I have learned that so long as Benedict Cumberbatch is portraying the male character I can easily write porn of more than just Sherlock. So...yeah. That was an amusing thing to realize today.
As for fic number two, I'm breaking down and finishing the Angsty Fic O'Doom for bigbang_mixup this week because I just want to get it over and done with. I turned in my rough draft last week so I'm (hopefully) getting art for it. But seriously, it's honestly the darkest and most depressing thing I've ever written. It's mood whiplash reading that story, sometimes within the same chapter. I have to finish chapter nine and then write the really brutal chapter. And then I'm going to put the balm on my wounds with "Starter For 10" and "Pitch Perfect," because I'll need the funny. Oh dear God, with what I have planned I will really need the funny. I'm actually going to preface it when I post it with an apology to the Sherlock fandom and a promise I will never ever do that again. And just watch: it'll be one of my most popular fics.
And then finally there's my casestory fic, which was the only one not claimed for art (which was incredibly depressing, to be perfectly honest...however, that mod does story covers for anyone who doesn't get art so I will get something). That's the story I started a year ago and never finished, the "The Snowmen" rewrite. Thankfully I own that season of Doctor Who now so I can rewatch it and finish the rewrite. But then I'm going to have to rush finishing my "The Hounds of Baskerville " rewrite for the same series (which I still am only at chapter one of) as well as the other little stories in between the two rewrites, because I skipped doing that with my Sherlock/Elementary series and I really regretted that. So...yeah. This is going to be fun.
Speaking of fic, I've been glancing at some of my fic on AO3 and (apparently) I have two other stories nearing the 3K hits mark, which was quite surprising to realize. One day when I have more internet time I'm going to comb through my AO3 account and do a massive repost of all my Sherlock fanfic which has 2K hits or higher, which I think is around 30 stories? Just because I want to brag. Unsurprisingly they are mostly Sherlock/Molly fics, but there's a couple Sherlock/Irene popping up as well. So this will be fun going through at least 249 stories and going "Dear God, how is that popular?" because, you know, I write a lot for that fandom. Which reminds me, eventually I will post all the Sherlock and Elementary fanfic I posted over the last few weeks for the land_deduction Bingo challenge. Because I really did write over 24K worth of fic for that challenge in the span of a month because I'm crazy. ::nods:: 11 of the 24 stories got written in a week, so some of them are crap and a couple are really favorites of mine. The "Molly gets drugged and calls Sherlock for help" story in particular got what feels like a million kudos in forty-eight hours and that surprised the hell out of me.
Also! I am starting to put serious work in on what I hope will be a really interesting original fiction series. One day I will convert my Wholock fanfic into an original novel, but at the moment I'm plotting out a series called "Bartenders Of The Apocalypse" about a war between Heaven, Hell and humanity/otherwordly creatures where the latter won. Now the demon who defected from Hell and rallied together the humans and the otherwordly creatures owns a bar and the series follows him and his staff as they navigate supposedly peaceful times with another revolt on the horizon as well as the possibility of an entire other apocalypse (Ragnarok this time). But seriously, it's an "ALL FOLKLORE IS TRUE!" and "ALL MYTHOLOGY IS TRUE!" series and I can't wait to finish these big bangs so I can start writing it. I'm hoping I can have the first novel finished in a few months and see about getting it self-published as an e-book. I will be so happy if I can and it's marginally popular.
So yeah. I've been a busy busy writer in the last month or so, but hopefully I can get these last fic commitments out of the way and then devote a huge chunk of time to my original novel. Someday soon, I will be famous as a novelist and I can do what I love for a living. Someday...
The scifibigbang story is almost finished, surprisingly, considering I only started writing it a week ago (I'll finish it tonight, probably). See, in War someone brought up a really good plot idea of "Hey, everyone affected gets split into two people with polar opposite personalities!" So we haven't done it, but I've been plotting with Viki and if it happens we're having Molly and Khan hook up (possibly repeatedly), which amused me to no end (because seriously, he's anti-social and she's still got a hang-up on Sherlock so of course we're going to have fun with them). Then I got challenged (by Viki, I might add) to fic it. So, of course, I did. This story (the first in a series because I love me my series) is nearly 25K long already and all I need to do is finish chapters 6 and 9. And this was the only fic that the mods of the challenge are actively encouraging to be written. Also? I have learned that so long as Benedict Cumberbatch is portraying the male character I can easily write porn of more than just Sherlock. So...yeah. That was an amusing thing to realize today.
As for fic number two, I'm breaking down and finishing the Angsty Fic O'Doom for bigbang_mixup this week because I just want to get it over and done with. I turned in my rough draft last week so I'm (hopefully) getting art for it. But seriously, it's honestly the darkest and most depressing thing I've ever written. It's mood whiplash reading that story, sometimes within the same chapter. I have to finish chapter nine and then write the really brutal chapter. And then I'm going to put the balm on my wounds with "Starter For 10" and "Pitch Perfect," because I'll need the funny. Oh dear God, with what I have planned I will really need the funny. I'm actually going to preface it when I post it with an apology to the Sherlock fandom and a promise I will never ever do that again. And just watch: it'll be one of my most popular fics.
And then finally there's my casestory fic, which was the only one not claimed for art (which was incredibly depressing, to be perfectly honest...however, that mod does story covers for anyone who doesn't get art so I will get something). That's the story I started a year ago and never finished, the "The Snowmen" rewrite. Thankfully I own that season of Doctor Who now so I can rewatch it and finish the rewrite. But then I'm going to have to rush finishing my "The Hounds of Baskerville " rewrite for the same series (which I still am only at chapter one of) as well as the other little stories in between the two rewrites, because I skipped doing that with my Sherlock/Elementary series and I really regretted that. So...yeah. This is going to be fun.
Speaking of fic, I've been glancing at some of my fic on AO3 and (apparently) I have two other stories nearing the 3K hits mark, which was quite surprising to realize. One day when I have more internet time I'm going to comb through my AO3 account and do a massive repost of all my Sherlock fanfic which has 2K hits or higher, which I think is around 30 stories? Just because I want to brag. Unsurprisingly they are mostly Sherlock/Molly fics, but there's a couple Sherlock/Irene popping up as well. So this will be fun going through at least 249 stories and going "Dear God, how is that popular?" because, you know, I write a lot for that fandom. Which reminds me, eventually I will post all the Sherlock and Elementary fanfic I posted over the last few weeks for the land_deduction Bingo challenge. Because I really did write over 24K worth of fic for that challenge in the span of a month because I'm crazy. ::nods:: 11 of the 24 stories got written in a week, so some of them are crap and a couple are really favorites of mine. The "Molly gets drugged and calls Sherlock for help" story in particular got what feels like a million kudos in forty-eight hours and that surprised the hell out of me.
Also! I am starting to put serious work in on what I hope will be a really interesting original fiction series. One day I will convert my Wholock fanfic into an original novel, but at the moment I'm plotting out a series called "Bartenders Of The Apocalypse" about a war between Heaven, Hell and humanity/otherwordly creatures where the latter won. Now the demon who defected from Hell and rallied together the humans and the otherwordly creatures owns a bar and the series follows him and his staff as they navigate supposedly peaceful times with another revolt on the horizon as well as the possibility of an entire other apocalypse (Ragnarok this time). But seriously, it's an "ALL FOLKLORE IS TRUE!" and "ALL MYTHOLOGY IS TRUE!" series and I can't wait to finish these big bangs so I can start writing it. I'm hoping I can have the first novel finished in a few months and see about getting it self-published as an e-book. I will be so happy if I can and it's marginally popular.
So yeah. I've been a busy busy writer in the last month or so, but hopefully I can get these last fic commitments out of the way and then devote a huge chunk of time to my original novel. Someday soon, I will be famous as a novelist and I can do what I love for a living. Someday...